Playson

Engineering Manager

Playson Remote Today
engineering

🎯 What You’ll Actually Do

  • Architect, refactor, and scale a high-load distributed system where failure is not an option.

  • Lead by example - code, review, debug, and mentor through doing, not preaching.

  • Tune performance until it screams - reduce latency, optimize throughput, and kill inefficiencies.

  • Make tough calls: design trade-offs, architecture rewrites, tech debt prioritization.

  • Work side-by-side with Product Owners and Solution Architects - no “handoffs,” just shared goals.

  • Build systems that outlive trends - resilient, measurable, and elegant.

  • Jump into incidents, own RCA, and make sure it never happens again.

  • Push the “PoC-first” mindset - test fast, fail smart, scale what works.

đź§  What You Bring

  • 5+ years of backend experience - you’ve built serious stuff, not toy projects.

  • Deep in Node.js / TypeScript, comfortable with async flows, gRPC, and Kafka.

  • Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS.

  • You can diagram a microservice architecture from memory - and then improve it.

  • Obsessed with performance metrics, observability, and efficiency.

  • You think like an engineer, act like an architect, and deliver like an owner.

  • You’ve led engineers - maybe not by title, but by respect and example.

  • Bonus: You’ve touched ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.

đź”§ How We Work

  • Speed > perfection. Build fast, measure, and move on.

  • Impact > output. One scalable fix beats ten “good-enough” features.

  • Depth > talk. We respect engineers who know their stack and their product.

  • Direct > polite. Say what’s broken, fix it, move forward.

  • No heroes, no silos. We win as a team or not at all.

🔥 What We Offer

  • Fully remote. Work from anywhere in Europe.

  • Unlimited vacation + paid sick leave. Life happens — take time.

  • Quarterly bonuses. Real performance, real rewards.

  • Medical insurance for you and your partner.

  • Learning budget for courses, conferences, and certifications.

  • Ownership and autonomy. You decide how to make things faster, cleaner, better.

  • No bureaucracy, no filler. Just meaningful engineering work.

👉Apply now, if you’re the kind of engineer who runs toward complexity, who sees product value in milliseconds and infrastructure elegance - then you’ll feel at home here.

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