Playson

Senior Platform Technical Lead

Playson

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇪🇺 Anywhere in Europe

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSDistributed SystemsDockerDynamoDBGRPCJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesMongoDBNode.jsPostgresTypeScript

About the role

  • Architect, refactor, and scale high-load distributed systems where failure is expensive and latency matters.
  • Lead by example - code when it counts, review relentlessly, debug production issues, and mentor through action, not meetings.
  • Tune performance until it screams: reduce latency, increase throughput, eliminate bottlenecks.
  • Make hard calls: architecture trade-offs, rewrites, tech debt prioritization - and own the consequences.
  • Work side-by-side with Product Owners and Solution Architect. No handoffs. No silos. One goal.
  • Jump into incidents, own RCA end-to-end, and make sure the same issue never happens twice.
  • Push a PoC-first mindset: test fast, fail smart, scale what proves value.
  • Build systems that survive growth, pressure, and time - resilient, observable, and clean.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend experience. You’ve built and operated real systems, not just shipped features.
  • Deep in Node.js / TypeScript. Comfortable with async flows, gRPC, Kafka, and distributed systems pain.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS - you know how things break in production.
  • You can sketch a microservice architecture from memory - and explain where it will fail.
  • Obsessed with performance, observability, and efficiency. You measure before you argue.
  • You think like an engineer, decide like an architect, and act like an owner.
  • You’ve led engineers - not by title, but by competence, example and trust.
  • Bonus: experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.
Benefits
  • Fully remote. Work from anywhere in Europe.
  • Unlimited vacation + paid sick leave. We trust adults.
  • Quarterly bonuses. Real impact, real money.
  • Learning budget for courses, certifications.
  • Ownership and autonomy. You decide how to make things faster, cleaner, better.
  • No bureaucracy. No filler. Just meaningful engineering work.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
Node.jsTypeScriptgRPCKafkaKubernetesDockerAWSmicroservice architectureperformance optimizationobservability
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringproblem-solvingdecision-makingcollaborationcommunicationtrust-buildingperformance measurementresilienceownership