Senior Back-end Developer
We're redefining gaming by making it possible to play top quality games with a single click. Join us and work with the latest technologies to help shape the way games will be played in the future.
💪 The mission
We are redefining the future of gaming by bringing the best mobile games to the browsers.
Why is it important?
Billions of people surf the web daily to entertain themselves, reading blogs, watching movies, listening to music and much more. But what they have not been able to do is play high quality games. If you want to play professionally-made games, you either need to download and install game clients on your computer, or reach to your mobile for a more accessible experience.
By enabling professionally-made games to be played in the browser, more people are able to enjoy great games, and game studios can find brand new audiences.
How are we different?
Pley makes gaming easier than watching YouTube by allowing games to be played in the browser. No downloads. No installs. No paywalls. Just play. The time it takes to start playing a game on Pley is less than the time it takes to finish reading this sentence. Don’t believe us? Just visit pley.com and enjoy zero-friction gaming.
Our mission is to bring down the barriers to gaming by providing creators with tools that make their games truly accessible, easily discoverable, and virally shareable - with games just one click away from billions of potential players.
🎮 The role
We are looking for an experienced back-end developer to join our growing team and make an impact in our mission to build the best games platform, both for users and game developers. You are a solid individual contributor who can also be a driving force for a strong technical vision in your team’s domain.
You will be working in a cross-functional product team focusing on the Core User Experience. Your team’s mission is to provide the best gaming experience on the web.
We are still a small team so you will have a strong impact in our company and engineering culture. We want to work with people who are curious and passionate about their craft.
Tech stack
Our tech stack consists mainly of a GoLang backend and a React frontend. The backend is deployed in GCP using serverless architecture. Most of the inter-service communication is done through gRPC.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain scalable and reliable Golang backend services
- Participate and make decisions about the technical system design and architecture of the Pley platform
- Improve automated testing, participate in code reviews
- Improve the platform observability (distributed tracing, monitoring, alerting)
- Collaborate with cross-functional technical and product teams, understand requirements, and materialise them into technical solutions
🌟 About you
Technical skills
Mandatory:
- Six years or more of professional experience with backend development
- Experience from architecting and implementing backends for high traffic websites
- At least one year of professional experience in Golang. Alternatively, we will also consider verifiable contributions to open-source Golang projects or personal projects that you can share
- Solid knowledge of (backend) system architecture patterns and server technologies
- Prior experience with deploying and operating applications in the cloud
- Experience with Relational Database Management Systems (ideally PostgreSQL) and data modelling
Nice to have:
- Developer Operations (DevOps), continuous integration and deployment strategies
- Experience with Google Cloud Run
- Cloud architecture ( we use Google Cloud Platform) and infrastructure as code (we develop our infrastructure with Terraform)
- Caching (we rely a lot on Redis and CDNs)
- Building HTTP Rest APIs or gRPC
- Microservices architecture
- Event-driven architecture
Soft skills
- Passionate problem solver with good communication and knowledge sharing skills
- Eager to learn and challenge yourself
- Pragmatic, curious, and not afraid of challenging problems.
- Respectful of other people's skills and knowledge
Other
- You enjoy a hybrid working environment.
- Have a valid permit that allows you to work in Sweden.
⚡️ Our Process
1. Intro call
2. Hiring Manager interview
3. Technical interview
*We would love to meet you in-person during our process. Huge plus if you can have at least one interview in our office.
- Discipline
- Engineering
- Locations
- Stockholm
Stockholm
Perks & benefits
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🧘 Health
A healthy crew is a happy crew. We have 4000 SEK a year earmarked for you to pay for things like workouts, yoga, and massage. Oh, and you'll have 30 days of paid vacation to help with work-life balance.
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🧑🎓Education
We'll hook you up with a free Brilliant.org subscription so that you can acquire or brush up on any skills you want. Also, let us know if you'd like to order a book for the shared company library.
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💻 Equipment
To perform excellent work you need excellent tools. We'll gear you up with the latest and greatest in smartphone and laptop tech, and slap a generous phone plan on top.
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🕹️ Work = Play
Work tasks include playing games ;)
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📍 Location
We're situated right in the middle of the popular Stockholmsverken district on Södermalm. A lively place with restaurants and bars that, together with innovative and creative companies, create a unique meeting place that just continues to grow.
There are great commuting options with pendeltåg, subway (green and red lines), and blue buses (4 and 3) nearby.
Seriously playful
We're a small crew with large ambitions and a lot of faith in our mission. We value playfulness and curiosity as much as courage and candour, and believe that the journey is at least as important as the goal.
When we're not hammering away to reach a milestone or overcome a challenge, we're known to goof around and dissect various subjects far beyond what's reasonable.
We're in this boat together and value the input of one another highly. No discipline is more important than the other and we strive to keep a flat organization with a high degree of transparency to help keep us all rowing toward the same goal.
Our guiding principles
- Focus on creating value, not extracting value.
- Quality over quantity.
- Keep it simple.
- Make it fun.
About Pley
Pley is a Stockholm-based startup with the mission to make gaming easier than watching YouTube.
In other words, Pley makes it possible for anyone to enjoy new gaming experiences at a single click, and to invite friends simply by sending them a link. No downloads, no installs, no paywalls—just play.
Senior Back-end Developer
We're redefining gaming by making it possible to play top quality games with a single click. Join us and work with the latest technologies to help shape the way games will be played in the future.
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