PHP Developer

SuperCity is a cross-platform city-builder with over 30 million players and a 14+ year history, running on 8 platforms. The game has ranked among the top 10 games on Facebook Top Grossing Games, and its mobile version was launched in 2017.

*Instagram и Facebook принадлежат компании Meta Platforms Inc., деятельность которой признана экстремистской и запрещена на территории РФ

• Develop and maintain backend services using PHP;
• Work with a high-load production system (~100k DAU);
• Extend and support a monolithic backend architecture, improving stability and scalability;
• Design, implement, and maintain APIs and internal service interactions;
• Work with API contracts based on JSON Schema;
• Use jRPC for internal communication between system components;
• Work with MongoDB, Redis, AWS, and Centrifugo;
• Optimize data storage, caching strategies, and background processes;
• Ensure system reliability under real production load;
• Analyze system performance using Grafana and other monitoring tools;
• Identify bottlenecks, degradation points, and inefficiencies;
• Optimize queries, caching layers, and heavy backend flows.

• Strong commercial experience with PHP backend development (5+ years);
• Experience in GameDev or other high-load backend systems;
• Solid understanding of OOP and software design principles;
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB and Redis;
• Experience working with AWS;
• Ability to analyze metrics and work with monitoring tools such as Grafana;
• Understanding of API contracts and JSON Schema;
• Experience with jRPC or similar RPC/API approaches;
• Strong understanding of high-load system challenges, including caching strategies, concurrency and race conditions, fault tolerance, scalability, and bottleneck identification;
• Comfortable working with monolithic architectures and evolving them without disruptive rewrites;
• Nice to have: Experience with real-time systems like Centrifugo, experience supporting live game servers, live-ops, and event-driven logic, experience profiling and optimizing PHP applications, understanding of CI/CD, observability, and production workflows, experience with evolutionary development of legacy systems.

• Competitive salary, reviewed every 6 months based on market trends and performance;
• Flexible benefits: an annual $1000 to spend on health insurance, sports, therapy, education and language classes;
• Full pay during sick leaves and personal leaves;
• 20 Working days of vacation annually;
• Open statistics, including earnings from the games.