VGW is an interactive entertainment company, harnessing technology and creativity to deliver world-class, free-to-play online social games. 

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Engineering team in Poland and are currently looking for a Senior Engineer to join the team. 

As a Senior Engineer, you will focus on developing the back end of a new platform system that will host millions of players. This role centres on building the customer segmentation system, offering you the opportunity to tackle unique, large-scale challenges in a dynamic environment.

What you should know about our Engineering team:

• We make room to do things the right way
• You own your projects: you build it, you ship it, you run it
• We were born in the cloud: practices and principles like CI/CD, IaC, O11y and CyberSec are part of what we do

When it comes to Learning and Development:

• Learning is part of our fabric. We have a world-class Engineering Learning and Development program and we are passionate about career development.
• Thought Leaders regularly give tailored talks and workshops for our team.
• We are proactive in the community attending many local and international conferences.
• We have both a technical and management track for career progression and promotions.
• We have a library of books and videos with good content and encourage staying on top of new practices.

In terms of our tech stack, we host our docker containerized apps on AWS in EKS Kubernetes. In the containers, we run Kotlin on the JVM. TypeScript runs our client side where it’s mostly React. Our databases is DynamoDB with Snowflake as our Data warehouse. 

Daily Tasks:

• Deliver product features effectively, collaborate with Engineers and Product members to improve value delivery, and continually review and refine delivery processes;
• Ensure the platform’s stability, performance, and resilience under heavy transactional load;
• Oversee design and scaling of high-throughput backend systems;
• Guide technical decisions, review solutions, maintain best practices to ensure smooth collaboration across multiple locations;
• Stay hands-on and up to date with technologies (AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, Java);
• Grow and coach the team, fostering strong engineering practices around cloud, microservices, and distributed systems;
• Experience managing a Platform or DevOps team - will be a big advantage.