Principalsoftwareengineer

Key Responsibilities - Lead technical decision-making and contribute to the architecture of a high-load, microservices-based gaming platform. - Stay deeply hands-on and write production code every day. This is not an architecture-only or people-management role. - Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services that directly power our gaming products. - Take ownership of complex backend systems, from technical design to delivery, monitoring, optimisation, and support. - Continuously improve system performance, latency, reliability, and scalability in a high-throughput environment. - Collaborate closely with Product Owners, engineers, and cross-functional teams to deliver features end-to-end. - Drive and participate in code reviews, setting a high standard for clean, maintainable, efficient, and production-ready code. - Conduct architectural reviews and guide the team toward practical, scalable, and long-term technical solutions. - Solve complex business and technical problems with a strong engineering mindset and pragmatic decision-making. - Act as a technical role model for the team by showing strong ownership, discipline, and engineering excellence. - Mentor other engineers through daily collaboration, technical discussions, and hands-on example. - Participate in on-call rotations within the squad to ensure system reliability, availability, and fast incident response. - Grow toward technical leadership while remaining strongly connected to code, delivery, and system ownership. Requirements - Strong hands-on backend engineering experience with a proven record of writing production code on a daily basis. - Solid experience with Node.js and TypeScript is highly preferred. Strong experts in other OOP languages such as Java, Python, C++, C#, or Go may also be considered. - Strong understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture. - Practical experience with distributed systems and messaging technologies such as Apache Kafka and gRPC. - Expe