Server Technical Lead

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • Full Stack Development • Backend Development

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Job Description

As a Server Technical Lead at Playtika, you will be responsible for providing technical quality by planning refactoring activities, managing technical debt, and creating technical tasks. You will also lead projects, overseeing all aspects from technical design and coding to successful launch. You will ensure product quality through code reviews, QA assistance, and incident management. You will be responsible for Playtika standards and project codebase, understanding new libraries, frameworks, and approaches. You will also be involved in automating the development cycle and knowledge sharing, including documentation and bi-weekly domain meetings. In addition, you will assist with collecting technical requirements, feature prototyping, and capacity planning.
Must have:
  • 7+ years of hands-on development experience
  • Expert knowledge in Java 11+
  • High-loaded application development and support on production
  • NoSQL production usage experience (Aerospike, Couchbase, Redis)
  • Relational database production usage experience (MySql, MariaDB, Postgers)
  • Kafka
  • Spring Boot, Spring Cloud
  • Microservice architecture (Netflix stack)
  • Experience in K8S and Docker
  • Strong Object Oriented design skills
  • Excellent presentation skills
Good to have:
  • PHP experience
  • Distributed systems and multi-datanceters data replication
  • NodeJs experience
  • WebSockets
  • Elasticsearch
Perks:
  • Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
  • Hybrid working mode: 2 days in office, 3 days remote
  • All you can eat cafeteria
  • PlaytiCafe with coffee and refreshments
  • Six long weekends for all, additional day off for birthday month
  • Private medical healthcare and additional sick leave days
  • Wellness program: yoga classes, massage chairs, zerobody room
  • Gaming room with various activities
  • Flexible working hours and monthly happy hours
  • Work permit assistance
  • Corporate celebrations, team buildings, and fun activities
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Join us at Playtika (NASDAQ: PLTK), where we're driven by the belief life needs play. We’re on a mission to deliver infinite ways to play using cutting-edge technologies like AI and machine learning to craft immersive experiences that connect, inspire and entertain millions of players worldwide. 

From our start as a small mobile games company founded in Israel to our current position as a publicly traded company and industry leader, we continue to be a dominant force in interactive entertainment. With a diverse portfolio of award-winning, category-leading Casual and Social Casino-themed games, including nine of the top 100 highest-grossing mobile games in the US, we're setting the standard for excellence. 

Our success story is co-authored by a dynamic team of storytellers, strategists, creators and data scientists who thrive on innovation. We are home of the best, advancing an inclusive culture that embraces our core values and reflects our agile DNA. 

With a strong financial foundation, disciplined operations, unwavering player-focused approach and  relentless can-do spirit, we're well-positioned for sustained growth. If you're ready to join the driving force behind the evolution of interactive entertainment, we invite you to come play with us.  

Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical quality: Plan refactoring activities; assist in managing technical debt; assist in creating technical tasks; help the domain team members to resolve ongoing issues (guidelines); 
  • Lead projects, overseeing all aspects from technical design and coding to successful launch; 
  • Provide product quality: Code review; QA assistance/consulting (if needed); be the focal point for production issues and cross-teams bugs; incident management handling; help the team with CE’s; provide and push non-functional requirements; 
  • Technology-wise: Understand Playtika standards and project codebase in detail; be responsible for new libraries/frameworks/approaches usage; write code on regular basis;
  • Automation of development cycle: Improve the CI/CD for the specific domain (if needed);
  • Knowledge sharing: Responsible person for technical documentation (wiki); knowledge sharing on regular basis (scheduled event – bi-weekly domain meetings);
  • Architectural wise: Help the team to collect technical requirements; be involved in feature prototyping process; help architect to review the domain (server, client) capacity, help to architects to build HLD/SDD;
  • Present our products and results of our work. 

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in development; 
  • Expert knowledge in Java 11+ 
  • High-loaded application development and support on production; 
  • NoSql production usage experience (at least one of Aerospike, Couchbase, Redis or alternatives);
  • Relational database production usage experience (at least one of MySql, MariaDB, and Postgers);
  • Kafka;  
  • Spring Boot, Spring Cloud;  
  • Microservice architecture (Netflix stack);
  • Experience in K8S and Docker;
  • Strong Object Oriented design skills;
  • Excellent presentation skills.

Nice to have: 

  • PHP experience;
    Distributed systems and multi-datanceters data replication; 
  • NodeJs experience;
  • WebSockets;
  • Elasticsearch. 

What does it mean to work at Playtika?

  • You’ll join a team of leaders in the field, and enjoy amazing benefits, some are listed below: 
  • A competitive salary and performance-based bonuses; 
  • Hybrid working mode: Two days from our office, located in the heart of Warsaw (Browary Warszawskie), and three days from anywhere, per week 
  • All you can eat! Breakfast, lunches, desserts, snacks and much more in our Playtika-only cafeteria  
  • Access to PlaytiCafe where all of your coffee (and other refreshments) dreams come true; 
  • Six “Power Up” long weekends for all, and additional day off for your birthday month; 
  • Private medical healthcare and three additional sick leave days; 
  • A wellness program in the office: yoga classes, massage chairs and zerobody room; 
  • Gaming room with a variety of activities; 
  • Flexible working hours and monthly happy hours; 
  • Work permit assistance for employees; 
  • Corporate celebrations, team buildings, and fun activities.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  

If you feel the above describes you perfectly - Apply now! 

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About The Company

For a decade Playtika has been a pioneer in the games industry with more than 34 million monthly active users across a portfolio of casual games titles. We were among the first to offer free-to-play games on social networks, and shortly after, on mobile platforms. Playtika creates disruptive gaming experiences that are reshaping the gaming landscape using cutting-edge technologies in Live-Ops, Data Analytics and Performance Marketing. As a digital entertainment powerhouse, Playtika processes 9TB of data daily. Our creative team translate data-driven insights into customized story lines that deliver exciting challenges and surprising thrills, at every twist and every turn. We move fast, seizing new opportunities, pushing boundaries and leveraging the technology and talent we’ve acquired along the way. At Playtika, we are storytellers and coders, artists and data-scientists, explorers and strategists. We don’t just build games, we bring them to life. We create infinite ways to play. Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, Playtika has over 3700 employees in offices worldwide including Ramat Gan, Berlin, , Warsaw, Vienna, Helsinki, Chicago, Las Vegas, Santa Monica, Sydney, Kyiv, Bucharest, Minsk, Dnepr, and Vinnytsia.

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