Software Engineer - Bangkok!

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

Ready for an adventure in Thailand? Then you might have the chance to join the Playlab team in Bangkok! We are a Danish founded, leading game developer & publisher, capable of producing social games from inception to completion. We are the home of popular game titles such as Juice Cubes and Jungle Cubes, with many more on the way! In four years of mobile game development, our games have achieved over 25 million downloads around the world.


As a software engineer on our backend team your prime responsibility is to create and support features needed in our games as well as working together with systems engineers on the team to ensure reliability and scalability of the platform. For this posisiton you will get to work on Juice Cubes, a game downloaded more than 23 Million times. 

You will get to work on technologies such as Node.js, Ruby (mostly RoR), eventmachine, MySQL, Redis and Cassandra. We are however not set on these technologies and they will most likely change in the future, you will be part of figuring out which technology to bring in next. 

What you will be doing

  • Collaborate with system engineers to improve current features and bring new into production. 
  • Making sure our backend is of great quality 
  • Get hands-on experience with building a scalable backend for millions of users. 
  • Build a nice platform for our game developers to built great games ontop of
  • Investigate and implement new technologies to improve our service 

About you

  • At least 2 years of working experiences to work related 
  • Knowledge in HTTP and TCP/IP
  • Extensive Experience in web or backend development with Node.js, Ruby and other object oriented languages
  • Can write clean and easy to understand code
  • Experience with Server management,Open Source contributions and/or TDD is a plus
  • Communicate well in English, both spoken and written

What we look for in all new employees

  • Gets things done and think about the long term impact of their work 
  • An eagerness to learn more
  • Fun to be around even when all systems have gone haywire

Bonus and Perks 

  • Opportunity to grow with the company 
  • An amazing workplace with super fun gaming and break areas
  • Attractive salary package
  • Free daily lunch, snacks and drinks
  • 12 days of Vacation plus 13 days of public holidays per year
  • Invitations to cool social events
  • Being part of Asia’s most influential gaming company

Instructions for applying:

  • Submit resume and (optional) cover letter 
  • Await answer from us!

Prepare yourself for

  • Screening test (requires programming in Ruby) 
  • Interview
  • Onsite test day or period


We provide help with relocation, assistance with visa-application and work-permit.

If you are interested in joining us, Apply Now!

Working at
Playlab

Playlab is a Danish mobile game company based in Bangkok.Founded in 2013 by 3 Danish entrepreneurs, Playlab has grown to be one of the biggest mobile game development companies in Southeast Asia. Our head studio is in Bangkok with a second studio in Manila.Our player base of +30 million global installs gives us a solid platform on which to fuel further growth and become a globally leading mobile game developer. We develop our own games and publish ourselves - giving us full creative freedom!

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