Technical Lead Golang (Game Platform)

We’re looking for a strong Technical Lead 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.

Tasks

• 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.

Our stack

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

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.

Preferred

• User-level skills in working with AWS and Docker.

• Skills in working with orchestrators (Nomad, K8s).

• Understanding of CI/CD practices (TeamCity, Jenkins).

Our Perks

Flexibility at work

• For most positions we offer a flexible schedule, and employees can work from anywhere in the world. You can do your work however and wherever you like — we only evaluate your 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 cover foreign language courses.

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.

Work Format

Remote or from one of the company’s offices.