Senior Web Developer (Node.js/PHP)

We're looking for a Senior Web Developer to join our team that builds and scales high-load user-facing web services, including game accounts, payments, notifications, and our core game website. These systems are mission-critical, serving millions of players globally.

You'll work in a high-ownership environment, driving engineering decisions and helping shape systems that are robust, observable, and built to scale. We value initiative, technical leadership, and a drive to create elegant systems that bring real value to players.

The current application stack is written in Node.js 22 (NestJS) and PHP 8.3 (Phalcon), deployed using Ansible, with a small portion of the applications migrated to K8s.

Tasks to be solved:

• Designing and implementing our client entry point and maintenance system.

• Reducing technical debt by driving architectural improvements, establishing code standards, and introducing best practices.

• Refactoring and scaling existing services: accounts, payments, notifications, and the game website.

• Building and maintaining robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure production reliability.

• Contributing to cross-team technical discussions, design reviews, and system evolution planning.

Job requirements

• 5+ years of commercial backend development experience in Node.js/PHP.

• Practical experience in software design: SOLID, YAGNI/KISS/DRY, patterns.

• The ability to participate in creating or reviewing architectural documentation (ADRs/RFCs).

• Databases: experience with relational and NoSQL databases, caching, and cache invalidation

• Testing: Writing unit and integration tests.

• Networking & Concurrency: TCP/HTTP, RPC (gRPC/protobuf/JsonRPC).

• Observability: Prometheus/InfluxDB, Grafana, or analogs.

• Basic knowledge and practical experience with CI/CD pipelines.

• Confident knowledge of Docker and an understanding of Kubernetes principles.

You’re a great fit if you:

• Have designed, launched, and maintained complex distributed systems in production.

• Are comfortable troubleshooting real incidents and improving system reliability.

• Have led the development of a system from scratch to production and learned from failures.

• Are proactive, autonomous, and take end-to-end ownership of your work.

• Make decisions using metrics, trade-off analysis, and user-first thinking.

What we offer:

• The best team in the world!

• An excellent remuneration package, including a 13th salary.

• Full relocation coverage for you and your family to Cyprus (Limassol).

• A modern, sunny office close to the sea.

• Private health insurance for you and your family members.

• A monthly pre-school, school, and university allowance for employees' children.

• Lunch compensation.

• A sports and fitness allowance.

• Company-funded personal development opportunities (professional and language courses, books, etc.).

• Bonuses for outstanding results, years of service, marriage, and childbirth.

• Friendly monthly office parties and epic annual offsite company birthday and Christmas celebrations.