⭐ BE PART OF THE EXITLAG CLAN

GPTW certified company – Great Place to Work

Are you a fan of games, technology, and challenges that make a difference? ExitLag could be your next big mission.

We are the world's first AI-powered game optimization platform, ensuring maximum performance and connection stability for millions of players in over 190 countries.

Born in Brazil, we operate with a global culture, high performance, and a total focus on user experience. Here, gaming is serious business, and we always deliver in PRO mode.

Why work at ExitLag?

✅ We are GPTW – Great Place To Work

A high-performance team, strong culture, and people who truly believe in what they do.

✅ Impact beyond gaming

Your work transforms the experience of millions of gamers around the world.

✅ Growth + Real challenge

An environment that accelerates your technical and professional development with autonomy and delivery.

✅ Global Mindset

We are Remote First and work on global projects. Where you are never limits how far you can go.

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Tech Lead to lead a critical technical domain of our platform, with real responsibility for architecture, quality, stability, and systemic evolution.

This is not just a coordination role.

It is a hands-on technical leadership role with a direct impact on production.

Key Responsibilities

• Technically lead the engineering team, ensuring architectural clarity and strategic direction.
• Delegate tasks with technical context and systemic vision, not just distribute demands.
• Conduct structured 1:1 meetings focused on technical evolution, autonomy, and team maturity.
• Be responsible for the complete development cycle: technical definition, implementation, code review, deployment, monitoring, and post-release impact analysis.
• Act directly on critical incidents, taking technical responsibility for resolution.
• Lead system design discussions, documenting architectural decisions and their trade-offs.
• Ensure that technical decisions consider systemic impact, performance, scalability, and sustainability of the architecture.
• Ensure continuous code quality (standards, testing, low coupling, and complexity control).
• Continuously evolve the architecture, preventing structural technical debt.
• Harmonize and organize the architecture between services and domains.
• Ensure technical predictability, clear metrics, and application reliability.
• Structure failure and post-mortem processes, promoting continuous improvement.
• Develop the team's technical autonomy and foster a safe environment for technical debates.
• Maintain constant alignment between engineering and product.
• Take responsibility for the production and stability of the systems under your leadership.

Technical Requirements

Backend

• Solid experience with Node.js and NestJS.
• Proficiency in GraphQL (queries, mutations, subscriptions, and schema modeling).
• Experience with REST APIs.

Database & ORM

• Experience with Sequelize or TypeORM.
• Proficiency in MySQL and/or PostgreSQL.
• Relational modeling, index creation, and query optimization.
• Experience with structured migrations.

Distributed Architecture

• Experience with distributed systems in production.
• Use of cache (Redis or similar).
• Messaging (Kafka or similar).
• Asynchronous processing.
• Transactional control and data consistency.

Infrastructure & Operations

• Experience with Docker.
• Knowledge of CI/CD (automated pipelines).
• Monitoring and observability.
• Structured and traceable logs.

Technical Management

• Experience leading technical teams.
• Structuring latency, error, and availability metrics.
• Ability to anticipate architectural risks.
• Experience with structured post-mortem processes.
• Strong sense of responsibility for production environments.

⭐ Differentials

• Experience with GraphQL in high-scale environments.
• Structuring SLOs and reliability metrics.
• Working with latency-sensitive systems.
• Leadership in complex structural refactoring.

Benefits and Advantages:

1. Hiring as a legal entity (PJ)
2. 100% remote and flexible environment
3. Solid career plan aligned with performance.
4. Allowance for home office, health, wellness, and food of R$1,300.00 on a Flash card
5. Partnership with TotalPass, Zenklub, and Exitlag free of charge, available to everyone in the Clan.
6. Paid time off and days off to ensure you are always at your best.
7. Profit sharing plan + company shares after 6 months of employment.
8. 50% assistance for courses and specializations after 6 months of employment.
9. Bradesco health plan 100% paid by the company for the holder
10. Annual bonus of one salary for the entire company, proportional to your length of service.