Senior Golang Developer (Cross-Game Server)

1 Week ago • 6 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Golang Developer in the Cross-Game Server team, you'll build and optimize high-load services, develop new features, and work on microservice templates and SDKs. You'll collaborate with game developers and infrastructure teams to design, implement, and refine backend services that scale across all Playrix games. Responsibilities include developing services for various gaming projects, participating in service architecture design, ensuring high-quality code through testing, and assisting with technical interviews. The role requires experience in high-load projects, architecture development, database design, and network operations.
Must have:
  • 6+ years backend development, 3+ years with Go
  • High-load project experience
  • Service architecture & database design experience
  • Unit & integration testing
  • SQL/NoSQL database experience
Good to have:
  • Python REST services (FastAPI)
  • AWS & Docker experience
  • Experience with orchestrators (Nomad, K8s)
Perks:
  • Flexible work schedule (remote)
  • Health insurance
  • Paid vacation & sick leave
  • Gym memberships reimbursement
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Company events & merch

Job Details

Senior Golang Developer (Cross-Game Server)

About the company

Playrix is ​​one of the most successful mobile game development companies 
in the world. In terms of mobile application revenue, we rank first in Europe 
and are in the top 3 worldwide. Our games have been installed 2.3 billion times (that's a third of the world's population!) and more than 30 million people around the world play them every day.

Team, about the role

Playrix games serve over 150 million players, which requires reliable and scalable server solutions capable of handling massive loads. The Cross-Game Server team develops universal backend services for Playrix games. We create critical solutions—ranging from services essential for any product (such as push notifications and GDPR-compliant user data processing) to game features like matchmaking, player profiles, clans, and anti-cheat systems. Developing universal services for all games enables faster rollout of new features and helps maintain a high level of quality in Playrix games.

We’re looking for a Senior Go Developer who will build and optimize high-load services and develop new features from scratch. Our Tech Lead and 8 backend engineers work closely with game developers and infrastructure teams to design, implement, and refine backend services that scale across all Playrix games.

Tasks


  • Work with your team to organize all the necessary developer experience in Golang — microservice templates, SDK, etc.
  • Developing services for various gaming projects and tools for game management
  • Participating in the design of service architecture
  • Ensuring high quality through unit/integration tests
  • Assisting in technical interviews and defining hiring standards for engineers on your team

Our stack

Golang, AWS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, Kinesis, k8s,  Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana.

Requirements

  • 6+ years in backend development, including 3+ years with Go (designing and developing services from scratch)
  • Experience developing high-load projects
  • Experience in architecture development: creating services, describing database schemas
  • Ensuring high-quality code development through unit and integration tests
  • Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases, ability to design database structures
  • Understanding of network operations at a basic level (TCP/IP, DNS)

Preferred

  • Experience in developing Python REST services for over a year, with a focus on working with asynchronous frameworks, particularly FastAPI

  • User-level skills in working with AWS and Docker

  • Skills in working with orchestrators (Nomad, K8s)

Our Perks

Flexibility at work

  • For most positions we offer a flexible schedule, and employees can work from anywhere in the world (except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus). You can do your work however and wherever you like — we only evaluate your results.

Caring for health and well-being
  • We provide voluntary health insurance for employees and their children, and reimburse online sessions with a psychologist.
  • We offer fully paid vacation days and sick leave. In certain circumstances, you can request additional days off.
  • We support leading a healthy lifestyle and reimburse the cost of gym memberships and fitness app subscriptions.
Professional development and education
  • We pay for participation in specialized conferences and courses and hold our own internal conferences.
  • We offer discounts on English language courses and courses for the languages of the countries in which the company operates.
Events and merch
  • We regularly hold offline events like team meetings, big corporate parties, and informal office parties.
  • We also regularly organize fun competitions, quizzes, hackathons, and online fitness challenges.
  • We have a merch store with an internal currency you can use to buy unique gifts. We give out this currency as a gift for significant dates, and you can earn more by participating in events and company activities.

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