Senior Java Developer

Ambition Needs a Place to Grow.

At Playtika, we create mobile games enjoyed by millions worldwide.

Combining the scale of a public company (NASDAQ: PLTK) with the speed and ownership of a startup, we are a global leader where innovation, data, and creativity shape the future of entertainment.

Here, your ideas matter, your decisions impact products, and your growth is supported across global studios.

Bring your hunger where it belongs: at the front of the pack.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and maintainable services that meet business requirements and align with company standards

Take end-to-end ownership of multiple domains, supporting them throughout their lifecycle (design, development, deployment, monitoring, maintenance)

Investigate, resolve, and prevent production incidents to ensure minimal impact on users

Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other developers to translate requirements into technical designs and deliver new features

Drive improvements in development processes, code quality, testing practices, and system reliability

Write clean, well-documented code and ensure proper test coverage (unit, integration, and functional)

Actively contribute to the evolution of our microservice architecture while supporting existing systems

Be an AI-first developer who actively builds and leverages agents to scale personal and team productivity

Requirements:

5+ years of professional experience in software development with Java

Strong knowledge of Java Core (collections, multithreading, streams API) and Java 8+ features (lambdas, optionals, functional interfaces, records, etc.)

Solid experience with the Spring stack: Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data (JPA, JDBC)

Proficiency in object-oriented design, design patterns, and software engineering best practices

Hands-on experience with messaging systems like Apache Kafka

Strong SQL knowledge, with experience in relational databases (e.g., MySQL/Postgresql)

Experience writing and maintaining tests using JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers, WireMock

Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as TeamCity or Jenkins

Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, including working with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana/Prometheus, ELK)

Willingness to participate in an on-call duty rotation to support production systems, ensuring timely response and resolution of critical incidents

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across teams

Knowledge of microservice design principles and distributed systems

Nice to have:

Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis, Aerospike)

Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments

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