Platform Architect

Kinguin, founded in 2013, has quickly grown to become a major player in the digital entertainment marketplace with 20 million users worldwide. 🌍 We offer a wide range of digital products, including video games and computer software, and have been a pioneer in supporting the esports industry through sponsorships of tournaments, events, and organisations. 🎮 At Kinguin, we are committed to innovation and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in gaming. Our team is made up of people from diverse backgrounds and skill sets, all united by their love of gaming and desire to create the best possible platform for our customers. 🚀

If you value having 🧡 Passion, Care & Impact 🧡 in your daily work, you will fit great in our team! You can read more about our values and work here.

Let's shape the future together and make gaming accessible and inclusive for everyone! 🤜🤛

Our Technology Landscape

• Core: Go (Primary focus for this role) / Java / Kotlin / JavaScript
• Cloud-Native Platform: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, GCP, GitOps-driven deployments
• Databases & Cache: MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch
• Messaging & Observability: RabbitMQ, PubSub, Prometheus, Alertmanager
• VCS: Git

What daily challenges are waiting for you?

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, event-driven microservices primarily written in Go.
• Take ownership of production applications.
• System Integration: architect seamless communication and data flows utilizing Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, and MongoDB as core components.
• Technical Governance: Bridge the gap between software development and infrastructure reliability.
• Define architectural standards, scalable design approaches, and coding best practices.
• Act as the technical authority within your domain, providing code reviews, technical guidance, and coaching to senior and mid-level developers.
• Design systems with HA principle, graceful degradation, fault tolerance, and observability-first approach.
• Lead technical RFCs, architectural reviews, and long-term modernization initiatives across multiple engineering domains.
• Participate in critical incident analysis, postmortems, and reliability improvements for production systems.
• Improve monitoring standards, deployment safety, and platform stability.

What you need to be successful in this role?

• Expert-level Go (Golang): extensive, hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining high-performance production applications in Go.
• Software Architecture Mastery: proven track record of designing complex distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-driven patterns.
• Deep practical knowledge of managing production workloads, including monitoring, telemetry (Prometheus), and advanced performance tuning.
• Infrastructure & Tooling: Strong, hands-on operational experience with Kubernetes (K8s) (deployments, scaling, debugging).
• Solid expertise in NoSQL databases (specifically MongoDB) and message brokers (specifically RabbitMQ).
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate both macro-level system architecture and micro-level code optimizations.
• Very good English communication skills (written and spoken).

What we offer?

• Remote work.
• All the tools and equipment necessary to perform your duties.
• Monthly bonus opportunities tied to marketplace results.
• Mental health support platform (Nilo).
• Free English lessons via online platform.
• 50% discount codes for games every two months.
• Seniority program (yearly discount code, up to 10 additional paid days off, bonus for 2, 5, 10, 15, and 20 years anniversary).

Recruitment process

• People interview (30-45 minutes)
• Technical interview with the Hiring Manager (60-120 minutes)
• Decision