Key Facts

Remote From:

Full time

Senior (5-10 years)

English

Hard Skills

Node.js (Javascript Library) Amazon Web Services AWS Lambda Node.js (Javascript Library) TypeScript Concurrency Pattern Personal Security Continuous Delivery JSON Incident Management AWS Cost Management Code Analysis Amazon DynamoDB Pipettes Queue Management Integration Testing Architectural Design Reliability Availability And Maintainability (RAM) Analysis Engineering Documentation Architectural Design Performance Improvement AWS SDK CI/CD Well Logging Event-Driven Programming Architectural Design Scalability Software Quality Management Continuous Monitoring Technical Debt Test Design Nginx AWS Glue Apache Parquet Observability Alarm Devices Linux Administration Amazon CloudWatch Amazon Athena OpenSSH AWS Cost Management Service Control Management Stakeholder Communications Continuous Improvement Process

Other Skills

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Collaboration
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Communication
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Teamwork
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Problem Solving

Social Discovery Group

About Social Discovery Group

Social Discovery Group is a global technology company that builds the future of social discovery apps at the intersection of dating, social, and entertainment. Our portfolio includes 60+ platforms with a focus on AI, game mechanics, and video streaming. We actively support and invest in social discovery startups worldwide through our CVC fund. More than 500 million people across 150 different countries enjoy our products. We strive to have 10 times as many. Our international team of 1,200 professionals and digital nomads works all over the world. Together we are solving the prevalent problem of loneliness and shaping Social Life 3.0 — a new digital reality where people will be able to fulfill their needs for communication and attention from other people and artificial life forms. 🎉 In August 2024 we achieved Great Place to Work US Certification™! This achievement reflects our core belief that a truly exceptional workplace is built on trust, pride, and camaraderie—not just great perks. Your opportunities with SDGroup: ➔Join to work alongside other inspired and creative minds. We employ international professionals with a background in launching global products ➔Grow as an expert. We have a mentoring system and an internal IT community of professionals one can learn a lot. ➔Become a Digital Nomad. We believe that digital nomads are the pioneers of our time, ready to change the world and change themselves. ➔Create your own product. For more than 20 years we have been creating premium international online services in global dating, and within our own venture studio we are launching new projects in the entertainment, social games, and streaming segments. You will have the opportunity to create innovative products. We bring together a team of like-minded people and IT professionals specializing in the creation and development of globally impactful social discovery products We are the refugee friendly company.

Company type: SME

Founded: 2018

Company size: 1001 - 5000

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Job description

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is one of the world's largest groups of social discovery companies, uniting millions of users on dozens of products. SDG solves the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection - transforming virtual intimacy into the new normal. SDG products redefine the way people interact and connect with each other.

Our portfolio includes social entertainment platforms designed to connect people online across different cultures in different parts of the world. This includes globally recognized brands such as DateMyAge, Dating.com, EuroDate, Dil Mil and Cupid Media. SDG has a presence in more than 150 countries.

We bring together a team of like-minded people and IT professionals specializing in the creation and development of globally impactful social discovery products. Our international team of 1000+ professionals and digital nomads works all over the world. Our teams of digital nomads work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Poland, Latvia, Serbia, Spain, Portugal, UAE, Israel, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and many other locations.

We’re proud to be a two-time “Great Place to Work” winner (USA & Japan, 2024–2025) and a Top-5 Company for Work-From-Anywhere Jobs (FlexJobs, 2025).

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (NodeJS, AWS).

Your main tasks will be:

Collaborate with the team and business stakeholders to find the most effective solutions considering all trade-offs (timelines vs resources vs quality)
Design and decompose high-level architecture, implementation plans
Implement technical solutions, including DevOps practices (monitoring, security, logging, scalability)
Deploy solutions to production
Monitor the entire system and resolve incidents as they arise (AWS infrastructure, moderation pipelines, AI providers)
Continuously improve system stability and performance
Reduce technical debt
Introduce new technologies and engineering practices
Review architectural decisions and code
Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines, code quality tooling, and testing practices

We expect from you:

3+ years of production experience with TypeScript and Node.js (ESM)
Strong hands-on experience with AWS CDK (v2) for infrastructure-as-code
Deep knowledge of AWS serverless: Lambda, Step Functions (SDK integrations, JSONata, Map/Parallel states), API Gateway, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge
Solid understanding of event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing patterns (queues, dead-letter queues, pipes)
Experience with DynamoDB data modeling and access patterns
Familiarity with CI/CD using GitHub Actions (or equivalent)
Competency in writing automated tests (Jest, and ideally BDD frameworks like Cucumber)
Ability to design and document technical solutions (Tech Specs, architecture diagrams)
English level B1 or higher

Nice-to-have:
Experience with Linux server administration (Ubuntu) — SSH, Nginx configuration, SSL/TLS certificates, service management
Experience managing GPU instances for LLM inference (provisioning, monitoring, cost optimization)
Experience with AWS analytics stack: Kinesis Firehose, Glue, Athena, Parquet
Experience with AWS CloudWatch dashboards, composite alarms, and observability tooling

What do we offer:

REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full-time;
Vacation 28 calendar days per year;
7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
50% payment for professional training, international conferences, and meetings;
Corporate discount for English lessons;
Health benefits. According to the paychecks, if you are not eligible for corporate medical insurance, the company will compensate you with up to $ 1,000 gross per year per employee. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance or on doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in our offices or co-working locations. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years, according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for our merchandise, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.