О вакансии
Playkot is hiring a Senior Backend Developer (PHP) to develop and maintain backend services for a high-load game production system with approximately 100k DAU. The role involves API and infrastructure work, performance optimization, and evolutionary development of a monolithic architecture.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain backend services using PHP.
- Design, implement, and maintain APIs and internal service interactions.
- Work with JSON Schema API contracts and jRPC for internal communication.
- Support and evolve a monolithic backend architecture.
- Work with MongoDB, Redis, AWS, and Centrifugo.
- Optimize data storage, caching strategies, background processes, and backend flows.
- Analyze system performance using Grafana and other monitoring tools.
- Identify bottlenecks, degradation points, and inefficiencies.
- Ensure system reliability under real production load.
Conditions
- Stable international company.
- Competitive salary reviewed every 6 months based on market trends and performance.
- Choice of working from the office, remotely, or in a hybrid format.
- Annual $1000 flexible benefits budget for health insurance, sports, therapy, education, and language classes.
- Full pay during sick and personal leaves.
- 20 working days of vacation annually.
- Open statistics, including earnings from the games.
- Team ready to share experience and knowledge.
Company
Playkot develops games and operates a high-load production system with approximately 100k daily active users.
Nice to Have
- Experience with real-time systems such as Centrifugo.
- Experience supporting live game servers, live-ops, and event-driven logic.
- Experience profiling and optimizing PHP applications.
- Understanding of CI/CD, observability, and production workflows.
- Experience with evolutionary development of legacy systems.