Tech Lead - Traditional Web Services
Sovrun
Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Posted on Jul 9, 2025
Sovrun is seeking a highly skilled Tech Lead to join our web services team. In this role, you will be a key player in engineering the core infrastructure that powers our entire suite of gaming products. You will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the robust, secure, and high-performance microservices that form the backbone of our platform. This position is ideal for a hands-on developer who is passionate about building sophisticated backend systems with a modern TypeScript-centric tech stack.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect, develop, and maintain scalable and resilient microservices using Nest.js and TypeScript, forming the core of our web services platforms.
- Design and implement clean, efficient, and secure APIs to support our front-end applications and facilitate seamless game-to-platform communication.
- Manage data persistence and complex queries using Prisma as our primary ORM, interacting with PostgreSQL and other databases to ensure data integrity and performance.
- Deploy and manage applications using containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) technologies within our AWS cloud environment, ensuring high availability and scalability.
- Collaborate closely with front-end developers, product managers, and game development engineers to define and deliver robust backend solutions for new features, including player account management, transaction processing, and bonus systems.
- Champion best practices in code quality, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure the reliability and security of the platform.
- Optimize system performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks, reducing latency, and ensuring our infrastructure can handle a global, high-concurrency user base.
- Contribute to the evolution of our technical roadmap, evaluating and adopting new technologies to keep our platform at the cutting edge.
- 4+ years of professional experience in backend development, with a proven track record of designing and building large-scale, distributed systems.
- Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js.
- Significant hands-on experience with the Nest.js framework for building scalable and maintainable backend applications.
- Strong experience with modern ORMs, specifically Prisma.
- Demonstrable experience with microservices architectures, including containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in deploying and managing services on cloud platforms, particularly AWS (e.g., EKS, S3, RDS).
- Solid understanding of database solutions (SQL/NoSQL), such as PostgreSQL or Redis.
- Familiarity with fintech, compliance, security or similar specializations and niches
- Experience building and consuming RESTful and WebSocket APIs.
- A proactive and collaborative mindset, with excellent problem-solving skills and experience working in an agile environment.
- Familiarity with Next.js, especially its backend-for-frontend (BFF) capabilities, is a strong plus.
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