chief technology officer for mobile games

Estoty is a creative video game developer that creates games for PC, mobile, and VR. Its portfolio includes more than 50 titles, and its games have been downloaded over 2 billion times.

• Shape the company’s technology strategy and lead the development of game backend systems, shared services, infrastructure, and internal platforms
• Define the technical direction, drive architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and solve complex technical challenges
• Set the technology strategy, architecture, and technical roadmap across the company
• Develop game backend systems and shared GameTech services, including Nakama, GameKit, and other common services
• Manage UA technology and integrations, including advertising network integrations and creative management systems
• Develop internal platforms and tools, including back-office systems, helpdesk, and automation solutions
• Improve infrastructure reliability, security, and cost efficiency across AWS and Google Cloud
• Establish engineering standards and processes for development, testing, releases, documentation, monitoring, and incident management
• Lead technical initiatives and team development, mentor engineers, and help shape the engineering organization
• Take ownership of complex projects and make pragmatic architectural decisions

• Previous experience as a CTO, Head/VP of Engineering, Principal Engineer, or Technical Director
• Strong hands-on expertise in backend development and distributed systems architecture
• Solid knowledge of Golang
• Practical experience with AWS, containers, PostgreSQL/MySQL, message queues, and caching systems
• Strong understanding of security, IAM, observability, incident management, and disaster recovery
• Experience leading engineering teams and planning technical work around business priorities
• A hands-on mindset and willingness to dive into complex systems when needed
• Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions and balance engineering quality with business impact
• Будет плюсом: Experience in mobile gaming or live-service products, familiarity with Laravel, React/Vue, Node.js, and Google Cloud, experience with IAM, multi-tenant systems, and advertising integrations, experience building shared platforms and infrastructure used by multiple products or teams, experience with Nakama

• Friendly atmosphere and smooth interpersonal relationships
• Opportunity to contribute to creating a new mobile game for a global audience
• Salary of 6000 - 9000 (brutto), depending on experience
• Relocation to Riga
• 09:00–18:00 Schedule