Senior Full Stack Developer

Location: Kyiv, ua

Company Description

About Playtech

Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B business. By leveraging its proprietary technology, Playtech delivers innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining gaming experience.

As the gaming industry's leading technology company, it combines business intelligence-driven software, services, content, and platform technology to drive excellence and innovation across the sector. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtechpeople.com and www.playtech.com
 
Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Embracing differences and maintaining transparency in our processes is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices.

Ready to level up your career?

Playtech‘s Marketplace and Engagement Games Product Team is looking for a detail-oriented Senior Fullstack Developer with excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Job Description

Your influential mission. You will... 

• ​​Lead the design, development, and evolution of complex web applications using React, Redux, ES6+, Node.js, and related technologies.
• Own features end-to-end — from technical design and architecture decisions to implementation, testing, deployment, and post-release support.
• Architect scalable, high-performance systems ensuring optimal front-end responsiveness and backend efficiency.
• Design and maintain robust RESTful APIs and scalable backend services.
• Drive improvements in code quality, maintainability, security, and performance across the stack.
• Review code, mentor developers, and promote engineering best practices within the team.
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence long-term technical strategy.
• Optimize application performance across frontend, middleware, and backend layers.
• Collaborate closely with DevOps to ensure reliable CI/CD pipelines and production stability.
• Work cross-functionally with Product, QA, and other teams to refine requirements and deliver high-quality features.
• Proactively identify technical debt and drive refactoring initiatives.

Qualifications

Components for success. You...

• Have 5+ years of professional experience in full stack development.
• Have strong proven experience building complex, customer-facing web applications at scale.
• Possess deep expertise in JavaScript (ES6+) and solid experience with TypeScript.
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in React ecosystem, including state management patterns and performance optimization.
• Have strong experience with Node.js and backend architectural patterns.
• Are experienced in designing and implementing REST APIs and service-oriented architectures.
• Have hands-on experience with MongoDB, Redis, and understand data modeling and caching strategies.
• Understand system design principles, scalability challenges, and performance bottlenecks.
• Have experience working with CI/CD pipelines and production environments.
• Have practical experience with TDD/BDD and writing automated tests.
• Use Git confidently in collaborative environments.
• Demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills and engineering judgment.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Take ownership and drive initiatives independently.

You'll get extra points for...

• Strong TypeScript expertise.
• Experience with distributed systems or microservices architectures.
• Game development experience.
• Familiarity with CSS methodologies like BEM, OOCSS, or SMACSS.
• Experience mentoring developers or leading technical initiatives.

Thrive in a culture that values...   

• Technical excellence and engineering ownership.
• Initiative-taking and confident decision-making.
• Strong team environment and the ability work with the most recent market-leading technologies.
• Initiative-taking and confident approach at the workplace.
• Global scope and inclusive working environment where you can engage with diverse teams and perspectives.
• Constant learning and development opportunities and professional growth programs.
• Active lifestyle and mental well-being, supported through sports classes, master classes, and monthly well-being activities.
• Medical insurance.
• Paid vacation days, sick leaves and national holidays.
• Fully-equipped cosy office space located in the city centre (Gulliver, “Palats Sportu” metro station).

Additional Information

MARKETPLACE & ENGAGEMENT GAMES PRODUCT TEAM

Our team is dedicated to two of Playtech's products - Marketplace, a platform for managing casino content, and Engagement games - a promotional tool for creating and monitoring real-time gaming campaigns. Both products are stable and well-established, with Engagement games offering seamless integration and customization for engaging player campaigns. Marketplace simplifies the management of casino content, providing tools to access marketing assets and manage game certificates. We thrive in a friendly and collaborative environment, engaging in full stack development using JavaScript technologies like React, Redux, ES6+, and Node.js. Some of our responsibilities include maintaining client-facing and server-side applications, writing high-quality, scalable code, participating in the software development lifecycle, collaborating with other departments for ensuring smooth deployments, and refining internal processes.

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.