Principal Golang Engineer

1 month ago

Dublin, Ireland Playrix Full time

Principal Golang Engineer

Playrix is in the global top 3 in terms of profit among mobile game developers. We have created the hit games Gardenscapes, Fishdom, Manor Matters, Homescapes, Wildscapes, and Township. They have been downloaded by more than two billion players, and have a monthly audience of 130 million people.

We are looking for a Principal Golang Engineer to strengthen our GameOps platform services team.

Our services experience peak loads of up to 100K RPS. Therefore, you will be tasked with developing current platform 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: 7 Senior and Strong Middle developers and a Tech Lead.
Our stack: Golang, Python, FastAPI, SQL, AWS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Graphite, Elasticsearch, Kibana.

This role requires relocation from Russia and Belarus to one of our offices or remote work from other countries (except Russia and Belarus). Find out more .

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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 platform 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

Requirements

3+ years of experience in developing Golang servises from scratch
Experience in developing Python REST services for over a year, with a focus on working with asynchronous frameworks, particularly FastAPI
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

User-level skills in working with AWS and Docker

Skills in working with orchestrators (Nomad, K8s)

Our Perks

Flexibility at work . We offer a flexible schedule, and our employees can work from anywhere in the world (except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus). It doesn't matter to us where or how you do your work — we only evaluate the final 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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