Senior Platform Technical Lead
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Union, Union County, New Jersey, 07083, USA
Listed on 2026-01-12
Union, Union County, New Jersey, 07083, USA
Listing for:
Playson Limited
Remote/Work from Home
position Listed on 2026-01-12
Job specializations:
-
Software Development
Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Backend Developer, DevOps
Job Description & How to Apply Below
🎯 What You’ll Actually Do
- Architect, refactor, and scale high-load distributed systems where failure is expensive and latency matters.
- Lead by example
- code when it counts
, review relentlessly, debug production issues, and mentor through action, not meetings. - Tune performance until it screams: reduce latency, increase throughput, eliminate bottlenecks.
- Make hard calls: architecture trade-offs, rewrites, tech debt prioritization - and own the consequences.
- Work side-by-side with Product Owners and Solution Architect. No handoffs. No silos. One goal.
- Jump into incidents, own RCA end-to-end, and make sure the same issue never happens twice.
- Push a PoC-first mindset: test fast, fail smart, scale what proves value.
- Build systems that survive growth, pressure, and time - resilient, observable, and clean.
- 5+ years of backend experience. You’ve built and operated real systems
, not just shipped features. - Deep in Node.js / Type Script. Comfortable with async flows, gRPC, Kafka, and distributed systems pain.
- Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS - you know how things break in production.
- You can sketch a microservice architecture from memory - and explain where it will fail.
- Obsessed with performance, observability, and efficiency. You measure before you argue.
- You think like an engineer, decide like an architect, and act like an owner.
- You’ve led engineers - not by title, but by competence, example and trust.
- Bonus: experience with Click House, Postgre
SQL, Mongo
DB, or Dynamo
DB.
- Speed > perfection. Ship, measure, iterate.
- Impact > output. One scalable fix beats ten “good enough” ones.
- Depth > talk. We respect people who know their stack.
- Direct > polite. Call out problems. Fix them. Move on.
- No heroes, no silos. We win as a team or not at all.
- Fully remote. Work from anywhere in Europe.
- Unlimited vacation + paid sick leave. We trust adults.
- Quarterly bonuses. Real impact, real money.
- Learning budget for courses, certifications.
- Ownership and autonomy. You decide how to make things faster, cleaner, better.
- No bureaucracy. No filler. Just meaningful engineering work.
👉 Apply if you’re a deeply technical engineer growing into leadership - someone who doesn’t want to stop coding, but wants their impact to go beyond just commits.
#J-18808-LjbffrPosition Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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