Lead Software Engineer

Joining Razer will place you on a global mission to revolutionize the way the world games. Razer is a place to do great work, offering you the opportunity to make an impact globally while working across a global team located across 5 continents. Razer is also a great place to work, providing you the unique, gamer-centric experience that will put you in an accelerated growth, both personally and professionally.

Job Responsibilities

As Principal Java Engineer in Razer Gold, you will lead the overall backend system development and play a key role in the Razer Gold Engineering team. You will be reporting to the Senior Manager of Software Engineering in Razer Gold and working very closely with other engineering functions, product managers and various business stakeholders to lead system modernization efforts.

About The Job

Joining Razer will place you on a global mission to revolutionize the way the world games. Razer is a place to do great work, offering you the opportunity to make an impact globally while working across a global team located across 5 continents. Razer is also a great place to work, providing you the unique, gamer-centric experience that will put you in an accelerated growth, both personally and professionally.

Job Responsibilities

Razer Gold aims to become the world’s leading payment service provider for games and digital content. As our business grows to meet the needs of gamers globally, we are looking for an experienced software engineer to join our team and fulfil the needs of our gamer customer base.

As Principal Java Engineer in Razer Gold, you will lead the overall backend system development and play a key role in the Razer Gold Engineering team. You will be reporting to the Senior Manager of Software Engineering in Razer Gold and working very closely with other engineering functions, product managers and various business stakeholders to lead system modernization efforts.

• Proactively drive the design and implementation of the Razer Gold core backend system.
• Engaging with Product and various partner teams for business and technical requirements.
• Driving the review of the technical design and implementation of the team.
• Leading the team to tackle challenging technical issues.
• Helping the team to grow and prepare for the foreseeable technical challenges.
• Setting example by building high-quality code with unit test and automation test
• Stay on top of any critical issues and drive to the finish line.
• Leading the team to migrate the existing system to a new tech stack

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Math, Physics, or other technical fields.
• 8+ years of experience in E-Commerce Java based core system design and implementation
• Experience in building highly scalable, high availability online system.
• Solid hands-on experience in JVM tuning and heap dump analysis. Good understanding of GC mechanisms and familiarity of Java profiling.
• Experience in .Net system is a huge plus
• Experience in DB system, especially PostgreSQL, MySQL DB and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience with at least one of major public cloud services, especially AWS.
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins.

Pre-Requisites

Razer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that diverse teams drive better ideas, better products, and a stronger culture. We are committed to providing an inclusive, respectful, and fair workplace for every employee across all the countries we operate in. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, ancestry, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, marital status, or any other characteristic protected under local laws. Where needed, we provide reasonable accommodations - including for disability or religious practices - to ensure every team member can perform and contribute at their best.

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