Server Technical Lead

4 Months ago • 7 Years + • Full Stack Development • Backend Development

Job Summary

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

Job Details

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! 

Employee at Playtika? Click here -

Similar Jobs

ION - Java Junior Developer

ION

Chișinău, Chisinau, Moldova (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Every matrix - Technical Lead - Senior Java Developer

Every matrix

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Netflix - Machine Learning Intern - Spring or Summer 2025

Netflix

Los Gatos, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Cognite - Data Engineer

Cognite

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
PwC - IN_Senior Associate _Java Developer _Data & Analytics _Advisory _PAN India

PwC

Kolkata, West Bengal, India (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Toptracer - Senior Software Engineer

Toptracer

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden (Hybrid)
18 Hours ago
GameChanger  - Staff iOS Software Engineer, Gameday

GameChanger

United States (Remote)
1 Month ago
Thatgamecompany - Full Stack iOS Engineer

Thatgamecompany

Shanghai, Shanghai, China (On-Site)
6 Days ago
Ness Digital - Java & React Engineer

Ness Digital

Timișoara, Timiș, Romania (Remote)
6 Days ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Saviynt - Technical Lead, Professional Services

Saviynt

Atlanta, Georgia, United States (Remote)
5 Months ago
ByteDance - Senior Software Development Engineer - Database NoSQL Redis

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Glean - Solutions Architect - ANZ / Singapore region customer hours.

Glean

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
4 Months ago
ByteDance - Site Reliability Engineer (Traffic), Infrastructure Engineering

ByteDance

Singapore (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Visa - Chief Systems Architect - Digital Marketing & Engagement Technology

Visa

Foster City, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Sr IAM Platform Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

Orlando, Florida, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Socialpoint - Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack Engineer)

Socialpoint

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (Hybrid)
6 Days ago
ByteDance - Android Software Engineer (Web and Client) Intern

ByteDance

Singapore (On-Site)
6 Days ago
ION - Lead Software Engineer, Italy

ION

Collecchio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Match Group - Sr. Software Engineer, Generative AI

Match Group

Palo Alto, California, United States (Hybrid)
5 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Poland

PwC - ServiceNow Developer/Consultant

PwC

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Techland - Lead VFX Artist

Techland

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
3 Weeks ago
Larian Studios - Senior Gameplay Programmer

Larian Studios

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
5 Months ago
SuperPlay - Technical Artist

SuperPlay

Poland (Remote)
1 Month ago
CD PROJEKT RED - Intern in Graphics Design Team

CD PROJEKT RED

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
4 Weeks ago
Fandom - Sr Ad Operations Specialist

Fandom

Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland (Remote)
1 Week ago
Evolution - Unreal Engine / C++ Developer

Evolution

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (Hybrid)
4 Days ago
Techland - Senior Cinematic Artist

Techland

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Techland - UE5 Senior Game Programmer AI

Techland

Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
3 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Full Stack Development Jobs

Easygo - Software Development Engineer (Mid Level)

Easygo

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (On-Site)
5 Days ago
Sinch - Senior Backend Software Engineer

Sinch

São Paulo, State Of São Paulo, Brazil (Remote)
1 Week ago
Qatar Airways - Senior Software Engineer - HTML

Qatar Airways

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (On-Site)
6 Months ago
ByteDance - Backend Software Engineer

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Nagarro - Associate Staff Engineer, Java Fullstack

Nagarro

Colombia (Remote)
5 Months ago
Milestone - Senior Software Engineer - Data

Milestone

United States (Remote)
1 Week ago
Neostella - Python Developer

Neostella

Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia (Remote)
1 Week ago
Luxoft - Senior Angular JS Developer

Luxoft

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (On-Site)
4 Months ago
ION - Lead Software Engineer, Italy

ION

Pisa, Tuscany, Italy (On-Site)
5 Months ago
PwC - Senior Associate_Full Stack Developer_Data & Analytics_Advisory_PAN  India

PwC

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
6 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

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.

Netherlands (Hybrid)

Romania (Hybrid)

Israel (On-Site)

Poland (Hybrid)

Netherlands (Hybrid)

Netherlands (Hybrid)

Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by Playtika

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug