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Senior Golang Engineer

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Backend Development • Undisclosed

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Job Description

As a Senior Golang Engineer at Playrix, you'll join the GameOps services team handling over 100k RPS. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining Golang services, contributing to service architecture, addressing scaling and fault tolerance issues, and ensuring high code quality through testing. You'll participate in splitting a monolith into microservices, develop developer tools and SDKs, build services for various game projects, and assist with technical interviews and hiring.

Must have:

5+ years Golang service development experience
Experience in architecture development
High-quality code development through testing
SQL/NoSQL database experience
Basic network operations understanding

Good to have:

High-load application development experience
Python REST service development (FastAPI)
AWS and Docker experience
Experience with orchestrators (Nomad, k8s)

Perks:

Flexible work schedule (work from anywhere)
Health insurance and psychologist reimbursements
Paid vacation and sick leave
Gym memberships and fitness app reimbursements
Paid conferences and courses
Language course discounts
Company events and merchandise

Senior Golang Engineer

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

We are looking for a Senior Golang Engineer to strengthen our GameOps services team. Our services handle a load of over 100k RPS.

You will be tasked with developing current services and writing new ones on the Golang, as well as working on the architecture and solving issues of scaling, fault tolerance, and monitoring.

Team: 9 Senior developers and a Tech Lead.

Tasks

Spliting the monolith involves decoupling critical functionalities from game backends into separate Golang services. Currently, we have over 10 such services.
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, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana

Requirements

5+ years of experience in developing Golang services from scratch
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 developing high-load applications
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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