[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Playtomic

Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Playtomic, you will be responsible for developing robust and scalable solutions for our product, ensuring high performance, consistent and secure transactions.

In Playtomic, we operate in pods. A pod is a small, cross-functional team that owns a domain end-to-end:

• It takes a framed problem.
• Makes the key product/technical decisions.
• Is responsible and accountable for building, delivering, and learning from the outcome in production.

You operate as a pod owner:

• Take decisions and set technical direction in your domain.
• Pull in the right people when a problem crosses boundaries.
• Hands-on, but the senior bar is judgment—what to build, where the risk lives, and how to keep a distributed system healthy in production.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop and maintain APIs and their services, enabling seamless communication between the frontend and backend, and facilitating third-party integrations to enhance the overall functionality of our product.
• Take end-to-end ownership of your domain: from technical design to delivery and production health, making autonomous decisions and driving initiatives with limited guidance.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, product designers, and frontend/mobile engineers, bringing product thinking to devise solutions that balance technical excellence with business impact.
• Ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the frontend.
• Maintain a high code quality by continuously optimizing and improving our backend through code reviews, profiling, and implementing best practices and company's standards.
• Leverage AI tools and agentic coding pipelines in your day-to-day to ship faster and raise the bar on what you deliver.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer.
• Familiarity with the whole web stack, including protocols, system architecture, database design, and web server optimization techniques.
• Experience with Spring Boot 3 & 4, Java 17 and 21, MongoDB, MySQL (Aurora), Kubernetes is preferred.
• Extensive experience in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs.
• High sense of ownership and accountability for outcomes, not just implementation.
• Comfortable making decisions and driving initiatives independently.
• Product mindset: sound product intuition and a customer-first approach.
• Pragmatism and delivery focus, with comfort operating in ambiguity and a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing technical challenges.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Curiosity and adaptability: willing to step outside your immediate area of expertise.
• AI fluency: uses AI tools in day-to-day work.
• Excellent spoken and written English is a must.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Requirements

• Experience in product-led startups and scale-ups.
• Production-ready experience building software with LLMs and running agentic coding pipelines.
• Experience working with remote, partially remote, and multicultural teams.

Our hiring process

• 1st interview with People Team.
• 2nd interview with Playtomic's Engineering Managers, Technical Leadership, and Product to assess your technical, product, and communication skills.