Senior Engineer

VGW is an interactive entertainment company, harnessing technology and creativity to deliver world-class, free-to-play online social games. The Engineering team in Poland focuses on cloud-native development with practices like CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and cybersecurity. The tech stack includes AWS, Kubernetes, Kotlin on JVM, TypeScript with React, DynamoDB, and Snowflake.

• Experience with AWS cloud services (MSK, S3, CloudFront, RDS, Aurora, EKS) and Kubernetes for infrastructure automation
• Proficiency in Java or Kotlin for backend development
• Basic knowledge of Terraform
• Knowledge of noSQL databases, ideally DynamoDB
• Understanding of Apache Kafka
• Ability to design and optimize systems for scalability and performance
• Ability to lead the delivery of technical projects
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach

• 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 is a big advantage