Playson

Senior Backend Engineer (Core Team)

Remote

Senior

REMOTE

Playson is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Core Team, working on high-load, distributed systems at the heart of their gaming platform. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building and scaling backend services where performance, reliability, and low latency are critical. You will own services handling financial transactions at scale, contribute to real-time platform challenges, and participate in on-call rotations. The role suits engineers who love writing production code daily and solving complex technical problems with direct, measurable impact.

Node.js

TypeScript

Kafka

gRPC

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

DynamoDB

MongoDB

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Asynchronous programming

Distributed systems

Incident response

Transactional outbox pattern

Idempotency

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