Principal Golang Engineer (Game Platform)

Playrix games serve over 150 million players, which requires reliable and scalable server solutions capable of handling massive loads. The Game Platform 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 strong Principal Engineer to lead the growth of Go expertise within the team, enhance technical product quality (including strategy and architecture), and drive key product and engineering initiatives at the department level.

Responsibilities

• Leading product and technical initiatives at the department level: gathering requirements, interacting with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams, developing solutions, decomposing and estimating tasks, and driving initiatives to completion.
  
• Developing service architectures in accordance with product requirements.
• Managing the technical quality of the product: defining strategy and vision, prioritizing tasks, and planning.
• Managing tools and technologies within the team.

Requirements

• 6+ years in backend development, including 3+ years with Go (designing and developing services from scratch).
• 1+ years of experience in a similar role: Tech Lead/Team Lead/Engineering Manager.
• Experience in developing high-load projects. 
• Experience in architecture design: creating services, describing database schemas.
• Ensuring high-quality code development through unit and integration testing.

Soft Skills

• Product mindset – Focused on product and business development.
• Ownership – Takes responsibility for results within their scope.
• Communication – Strives for consensus in decision-making, demonstrates flexibility and diplomacy, and avoids conflicts.
• Results-driven – Prioritizes important tasks and finds optimal solutions.
• Systematic approach – Structures tasks effectively and finds efficient ways to solve them.

Tech stack

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

Nice to have

• User-level skills in working with AWS and Docker.
• Skills in working with orchestrators (Nomad, K8s).
  
• Understanding of CI/CD practices (TeamCity, Jenkins).