• We handle everything related to operational flexibility: managing events, offers, experimentation, game balance, configurations, schedules, and feature rollout
• The team is responsible for delivering the core platform and tools that allow product teams to rapidly iterate, manage the game economy, and run complex experiments efficiently
• You will collaborate closely with game designers, producers, analysts, and ML/AI engineers to define requirements and deliver the infrastructure that enables fast, predictable operations
• Architectural Leadership: Define and own the technical architecture of the LiveOps Platform, ensuring maximum reliability, scalability, and integration capability across all game projects
• Hands-On Development (50%+): Write high-quality, high-performance code, especially for core services and integrations
• Act as the primary technical problem solver
• Platform Development: Build tools and services for centralized management of A/B tests, configurations, feature flags, game balance, and content delivery
• Process Automation: Automate the end-to-end LiveOps process chain to reduce manual effort, increase the speed of experiments, and provide transparent data flow for product teams
• Engineering Mentorship: Lead the engineering team (3–5 people) in technical best practices, code quality (reviews, design reviews), and effective engineering processes
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Manage technical debt, communicate complex trade-offs, and align the platform roadmap with the demanding needs of multiple game studios and business stakeholders
• We regularly hold offline events like team meetings, big corporate parties, and informal office parties

We also regularly organize fun competitions, quizzes, hackathons, and online fitness challenges

• Fluency in Russian
• 6+ years of experience in designing, building, and operating highly reliable backend systems
• Experience leading a small engineering team (3–5 people) or acting as a technical lead for a core project
• Excellent development skills in Python
• Proven ability to lead technical architecture and build complex services from scratch — from initial database design to deployment strategy
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, containerization, deployment, and monitoring

A strong focus on operational excellence: implementation of logging, alerting, comprehensive testing, and resilient failover architectures

Deep expertise in system design principles: scalability, fault tolerance, message queues, caching strategies, transactionality, and API contracts

• Flexibility at work
• For most positions, we offer a flexible schedule, and employees can work from anywhere in the world (except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus)
• We provide voluntary health insurance for employees and their children, and reimburse online sessions with a psychologist
• We offer fully paid vacation days and sick leave
• In certain circumstances, you can request additional days off
• We support leading a healthy lifestyle and reimburse the cost of gym memberships and fitness app subscriptions
• We pay for participation in specialized conferences and courses and hold our own internal conferences

We offer discounts on English language courses and courses for the languages of the countries in which the company operates