Principal software engineer

Playson

Full-time IT & Technology
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Location
remote, romblon, Philippines
Posted
June 02, 2026

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead technical decision-making and contribute to the architecture of a high-load, microservices-based gaming platform.

  • Stay deeply hands-on and write production code every day. This is not an architecture-only or people-management role.

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services that directly power our gaming products.

  • Take ownership of complex backend systems, from technical design to delivery, monitoring, optimisation, and support.

  • Continuously improve system performance, latency, reliability, and scalability in a high-throughput environment.

  • Collaborate closely with Product Owners, engineers, and cross-functional teams to deliver features end-to-end.

  • Drive and participate in code reviews, setting a high standard for clean, maintainable, efficient, and production-ready code.

  • Conduct architectural revie...