Senior Engineer

<p><strong>Senior Software Engineer<br><br>VGW is an interactive entertainment company, harnessing technology and creativity to deliver world-class, free-to-play online social games.</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>We have an exciting opportunity to join our </strong><strong>Engineering</strong><strong> team in Poland</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>and are currently looking for a</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Senior Engineer.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>In this role, you will solve complex migration problems across varied game mechanics and architectures to help migrate existing games to our new platform, while supporting the broader Game Studio Enablement ecosystem.</p> <p><strong>What you should know about our Engineering team:</strong></p> <ul> <li>We make room to do things the right way</li> <li>You own your projects: you build it, you ship it, you run it</li> <li>We were born in the cloud: practices and principles like CI/CD, IaC, O11y and CyberSec are part of what we do</li> </ul> <p><strong>When it comes to Learning and Development:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Learning is part of our fabric. We have a world-class Engineering Learning and Development program and we are passionate about career development.&nbsp;</li> <li>Thought Leaders regularly give tailored talks and workshops for our team.</li> <li>We are proactive in the community attending many local and international conferences.</li> <li>We have both a technical and management track for career progression and promotions.</li> <li>We have a library of books and videos with good content and encourage staying on top of new practices.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>In terms of our tech stack,</strong> we host our Docker containerised apps on AWS using EKS Kubernetes. In the containers, we run Kotlin with Spring Boot on the JVM, and TypeScript on Node.js with Fastify for our game math model servers. TypeScript runs our client side where it's mostly PixiJS with Spine and GSAP for game rendering.</p> <div><strong>Requirements:</strong></div> <ul> <li>5+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience with strong core engineering fundamentals;</li> <li>Strong proficiency in <strong>TypeScript </strong>alongside solid frontend and <strong>backend </strong>development capabilities;</li> <li><strong>Pixi.js</strong> experience is very desirable;</li> <li>Hands-on cloud experience, ideally using <strong>AWS</strong>;</li> <li>Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across dis