Jobs at Djinni

Employment: Remote, full-time
Engagement length: Long-term, 12 months
Start: Mid-October
Time zone: CET (candidate location is flexible — EU, Balkans, Ukraine, CIS, Asia, Africa, Middle East)

Required:

Backend:

• Node.js — 5+ years of commercial experience, NestJS, TypeScript in production
• Solid understanding of the event loop, streams, and async patterns in Node
• ORM/query builders: TypeORM, MikroORM, or Knex
• BullMQ or similar task queue (retries, idempotency)
• Python — 3+ years of commercial experience
• Django/DRF: REST API design, ORM, migrations, serializers, permissions
• FastAPI or another async framework in production
• asyncio: async/await, concurrent task orchestration
• Celery or similar for background task processing
• MySQL/PostgreSQL: database design, query optimization, migrations
• Message queues: RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar
• Redis or similar for caching
• WebSockets, real-time event delivery
• Understanding of microservices architecture

Frontend:

• React — 1.5+ years of commercial experience
• TypeScript in production
• State management: Redux/RTK/MobX
• Data fetching: RTK-Query
• Custom React Hooks
• SASS/Bootstrap/Tailwind
• Understanding of component composition and reusability

General:

• Git (branching strategies, merge conflict resolution, code review)
• Testing: Jest, Supertest, React Testing Library
• API documentation: Swagger/OpenAPI
• English B2+

Nice to have:

• CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
• Vector databases (Qdrant, pgvector), embedding/RAG pipelines
• Docker
• AWS/GCP/Azure

Our partner is a fast-growing algorithmic trading and fintech company with a proven track record of exceptional results. They delivered annual returns of 60–100%. Current AUM stands at $15M, with an additional $20M from a prominent Hong Kong-based fund in advanced discussions. Their proprietary platform processes up to 12,000 messages per second via WebSocket, generates ~4,000 trading signals annually (75% profitable), and operates across Binance and Bybit futures markets — with active plans to scale further.
 

Main Responsibilities

– Develop and implement sophisticated algorithms for automated trading across financial markets
– Research and backtest new trading strategies using historical and real-time data
– Build mathematical and statistical models for risk assessment and market movement prediction
– Analyze and optimize existing strategies to improve performance and cost-effectiveness
– Collaborate closely with developers and engineers to integrate trading algorithms into the production system
– Conduct stress testing of strategies and adapt them to rapidly changing market conditions
– Monitor live trading performance, debug issues, and ensure strategy resilience
– Contribute to the development of a scalable, high-performance system architecture
 

Mandatory Requirements

Must have:

– 5+ years of experience in algorithmic trading, financial analysis, or quantitative modeling
– Deep understanding of financial markets, trading theories, and algo trading principles
– Strong expertise in probability theory, statistics, and mathematical modeling
– Proficiency in Python and/or Go; familiarity with Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn
– Hands-on experience with live data feeds, exchange APIs, and financial platforms
– Proven ability to develop and test trading strategies using statistical methods

Nice to have:

– Experience with Binance, Bybit, or similar crypto exchanges
– Knowledge of HFT techniques and algorithm optimization
– Familiarity with ML methods for forecasting and classification
– Experience with distributed systems or high-performance computing; knowledge of Rust or C++
 

We offer

– Performance bonuses — percentage of profits generated by your strategies + milestone incentives for development and optimization
– Professional development — sponsorship for CFA/FRM/CQF certifications, access to industry conferences and internal training programs
– Cutting-edge tools — high-performance servers, GPU clusters, proprietary backtesting infrastructure, premium datasets and APIs
– Flexible remote work — fully remote to start, with a future office in Europe; flexible hours aligned with global markets
– Growth opportunity — join at a pivotal stage of expansion: five major exchanges, U.S. market entry, $35–40M capital raise in progress, and a sub-fund being established under a leading Hong Kong partner

Senior 3D Designer (iGames)

We are hiring a Senior 3D Designer for our client — a gaming product company developing visually engaging interactive experiences for global audiences.

We’re looking for a creative and technically skilled 3D Designer who can create high-quality game-ready assets, environments, props, and visual content for real-time production pipelines. The ideal candidate combines strong artistic fundamentals with a solid understanding of optimization, production workflows, and collaboration inside fast-moving game teams.

You will work closely with art directors, animators, game designers, UI/UX teams, and engineers to help shape the visual quality of multiple products.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality 3D assets including environments, props, gameplay objects, and visual elements
• Produce optimized game-ready models for real-time engines
• Collaborate with art and design teams to maintain strong visual consistency
• Participate in visual exploration, style development, and creative ideation
• Prepare assets for integration into production pipelines
• Optimize geometry, textures, and materials for performance across platforms
• Work closely with technical artists and developers during implementation
• Contribute to improving workflows and production efficiency
• Iterate quickly based on feedback and evolving project needs

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in 3D design for games or interactive products
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality 3D work
• Experience creating stylized or game-ready assets
• Strong understanding of:
  • Modeling
  • Texturing
  • Composition
  • Lighting
  • Materials
  • Visual storytelling
• Experience with real-time production workflows
• Understanding of optimization for game engines
• Ability to work efficiently in collaborative production environments
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail
• English — Intermediate+ or higher

Nice to Have

• Experience with Unity, Unreal Engine, or Cocos pipelines
• Experience in gaming, casino, casual, or mobile products
• Knowledge of animation, VFX, or motion workflows
• Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools
• Experience working with distributed international teams

Tools

• Blender / Maya / 3ds Max / Cinema 4D
• Substance Painter / Designer
• Photoshop
• Additional real-time or rendering tools are a plus

What Success Looks Like

• Visually polished and optimized 3D assets
• Strong collaboration across art and technical teams
• Fast iteration without sacrificing quality
• Consistent visual style across projects
• Smooth integration into production pipelines

Conditions

• Remote-friendly environment
• Flexible collaboration model
• Long-term product-focused projects
• International team environment

# Senior Cocos Animator

We are hiring a Senior Cocos Animator for our client — a gaming product company building high-performance real-money and social casino experiences with a strong focus on real-time gameplay feedback and motion systems.

This role focuses on creating, assembling, and optimizing in-engine animations directly in Cocos Creator, with a strong emphasis on gameplay clarity, responsiveness, and performance efficiency across mobile and web platforms.

You will own the full animation pipeline from concept through in-engine implementation and collaborate closely with engineers, game designers, and UI/UX teams.

## Responsibilities

### Animation & Motion Design

* Create high-quality gameplay animations for:

  * Game states (idle, deal, reveal, win/lose, bonus, celebrations)

  * Card game interactions (shuffle, deal, fan, reveal, chip movement, table transitions)

* Design UI motion that improves clarity, feedback, and user engagement

* Build VFX and particle effects for wins, streaks, combos, jackpots, and events

* Ensure motion is responsive, readable, and emotionally satisfying

### In-Engine Assembly (Cocos Creator)

* Build, rig, and assemble animations directly in Cocos Creator

* Configure timelines, curves, animation states, and event systems

* Create reusable prefabs and motion components for scalable production

* Set up triggers, animation events, and integration-ready systems for developers

* Ensure smooth handoff and reliable implementation in-engine

### Performance & Optimization

* Optimize animation assets (atlases, sprite sheets, skeletal rigs, textures)

* Balance frame-based vs skeletal animation approaches depending on use case

* Define and maintain performance budgets (memory, draw calls, file size)

* Profile and optimize animations across devices and frame rates

* Ensure smooth performance on mobile and web platforms

* Build reusable animation and VFX libraries for production efficiency

### Collaboration & Workflow

* Work closely with product, game design, UI/UX, and engineering teams

* Ensure motion supports gameplay mechanics, pacing, and economy systems

* Provide clear documentation and technical specs for implementation

* Review builds and PRs to ensure visual fidelity and performance quality

* Present animation concepts and iterate based on feedback

* Mentor peers and help improve motion and in-engine best practices

## Requirements

### Must-Have

* 5+ years of experience in game animation or motion design

* 3+ years of experience delivering in-engine animations in shipped titles

* Strong portfolio in gaming or iGaming (casino/card games is a plus)

* Advanced proficiency in Cocos Creator:

  * Animation clips

  * Timelines

  * State machines

  * Prefabs

  * Events

* Proven ability to assemble and ship animations in-engine

* Strong understanding of animation principles (timing, easing, anticipation, overlap)

* Deep knowledge of optimization (atlases, batching, draw calls, compression)

* Experience with mobile and web performance constraints and profiling

* Strong English communication skills

### Nice to Have

* Spine rigging and animation experience (integration workflows)

* Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript in Cocos pipelines

* Familiarity with After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator

* Knowledge of particle systems and shader-based VFX

* Understanding of casino game UX patterns and player feedback systems

* Mandarin language skills

## Working Approach

* Player-first motion design focused on clarity and responsiveness

* Performance-driven development with profiling and optimization

* System-based thinking (reusable motion libraries over one-off animations)

## Application Requirements

Please include:

* Portfolio or reel showcasing in-engine Cocos animation work (with your contribution clearly stated)

* Short case study describing:

  * Problem and goals

  * Technical/creative constraints

  * Optimization approach

  * Final impact

* CV or LinkedIn profile

# Senior VFX Animator (Unity / Spine)

We are hiring a Senior VFX Animator for our client — a product-focused gaming company building next-generation interactive gameplay experiences inspired by modern casual and skill-based games.

We’re looking for a hands-on VFX expert with strong real-time production experience in Unity and Spine who can independently own the full VFX animation pipeline — from concept creation to final in-engine implementation.

The ideal candidate combines strong artistic sensibility with deep technical expertise, creating effects that are visually impactful, gameplay-readable, and optimized for real-time performance across mobile and desktop platforms.

You will collaborate closely with game designers, UI/UX teams, engineers, and artists across multiple projects in a fast-paced production environment.

## Responsibilities

### End-to-End VFX Ownership

* Own the complete VFX workflow from concept to implementation

* Create:

  * UI interaction animations

  * Gameplay and feature-related VFX

  * Reward and bonus animations

  * Item usage effects

  * Gameplay feedback animations

* Translate gameplay requirements into clear and satisfying visual feedback

* Ensure animations improve gameplay clarity, engagement, and user experience

### Real-Time Production & Technical Execution

* Work extensively with Spine for:

  * Rigging

  * Mesh deformation

  * Animation state setup

  * Export optimization

* Build and optimize VFX workflows in Unity:

  * Particle systems

  * Animator & Timeline integration

  * UI animation integration

  * Prefab organization

* Combine Spine and Unity workflows efficiently

* Optimize assets for mobile and desktop performance

* Maintain strong performance standards while preserving visual quality

### Artistic Quality & Gameplay Readability

* Create animations with strong timing, impact, and rhythm

* Balance visual richness with gameplay clarity

* Maintain consistency with overall art direction

* Improve user interaction through polished feedback systems

* Iterate quickly based on reviews and feedback

### Pipeline & Integration

* Structure assets for clean integration and scalable workflows

* Collaborate closely with engineers on implementation and optimization

* Maintain organized file structures and naming conventions

* Anticipate technical integration issues early in production

* Help improve internal VFX pipelines and standards

### Collaboration & Production Agility

* Communicate effectively with design, engineering, and art teams

* Work across multiple concurrent projects

* Adapt quickly to changing priorities and fast iteration cycles

* Participate actively in reviews, testing, and feedback sessions

## Requirements

* 5+ years of experience in real-time VFX and animation production

* Advanced experience with Unity VFX workflows

* Expert-level Spine animation skills

* Strong understanding of real-time optimization for mobile and desktop

* Experience with:

  * Particle systems

  * Animator / Timeline

  * Prefabs

  * Texture atlases

  * Draw call optimization

  * Shader/material setup

* Strong understanding of gameplay readability and animation timing

* Experience shipping mobile or cross-platform games

* Ability to independently solve technical and artistic challenges

* Strong communication and collaboration skills

* English or Mandarin or Ukrainian proficiency

## Nice to Have

* Experience in casual games, gaming products, poker, or UI-heavy experiences

* LiveOps or fast-paced production environment experience

* Experience mentoring other animators

* Familiarity with distributed/global teams

* Basic understanding of 3D workflows or real-time lighting pipelines

* Experience with version control systems such as Git

## What Success Looks Like

* High-quality real-time VFX that enhance gameplay and user engagement

* Smooth and optimized implementation across platforms

* Clear gameplay feedback and polished interaction design

* Fast iteration cycles without sacrificing quality

* Strong collaboration between art, design, and engineering teams

## What We Offer
* Competitive compensation package

* Remote-friendly work environment

* Optional relocation support

* Home office & hardware budget

* Flexible paid time off policy

* Learning & development budget

* Referral bonus program

* Long-term product-focused environment with modern workflows

Art Lead / Art Director (Remote)

We are hiring an Art Lead / Art Director for our client — a product-focused gaming company developing a new generation of engaging, skill-influenced game experiences.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone with a strong concept art background, exceptional visual taste, and the ability to move quickly without sacrificing quality. You will define the visual direction for multiple game concepts and productions, from early exploration and moodboards to production-ready art systems and implementation quality.

The ideal candidate has experience building visually compelling game worlds, leading artists, and working closely with game designers, developers, animators, and UI/UX teams in fast-paced production environments.

## Responsibilities

### Art Direction & Visual Quality

* Define and maintain the visual direction across multiple game projects

* Set a high quality bar for concept art, characters, environments, UI direction, VFX, and key visuals

* Create or guide style frames, moodboards, visual references, and art direction documentation

* Ensure visual consistency, gameplay readability, and strong player appeal

* Maintain cohesive visual identity across assets, features, and live updates

### Concept Art & Creative Exploration

* Lead early-stage visual exploration for new game concepts, worlds, themes, and mechanics

* Produce or supervise high-quality concept art and visual development

* Rapidly explore multiple visual directions and identify the strongest commercial approach

* Balance creativity, production feasibility, and market fit

* Bring modern casual and midcore game quality into gameplay experiences

### Hands-On Leadership

* Provide clear feedback and direction to artists, illustrators, animators, and outsourcing partners

* Review work regularly and support fast iteration cycles

* Create sketches, paint-overs, briefs, and visual examples when needed

* Mentor artists and help raise the overall quality level across the team

* Improve workflows for both concept exploration and production delivery

### Production & Engine Collaboration

* Collaborate closely with developers to ensure clean implementation in game engines

* Understand both 2D and 3D production pipelines and technical constraints

* Work with technical artists and engineers on optimization, animation integration, VFX, and performance

* Help define efficient art pipelines for prototyping and production

### Innovation & AI Workflows

* Explore AI-assisted workflows for ideation, visual exploration, and production acceleration

* Maintain a strong human-led artistic standard while leveraging modern tools

* Help establish scalable creative workflows for rapid concepting and asset variation

* Stay current with trends in casual gaming, mobile games, concept art, animation, and AI-assisted production

## Requirements

* 7+ years of experience in game art, concept art, illustration, or art direction

* Strong portfolio showcasing high-end concept art, characters, environments, props, and visual development

* Proven experience defining and maintaining visual direction across game products

* Excellent understanding of composition, anatomy, lighting, color, perspective, storytelling, and visual hierarchy

* Strong artistic taste and ability to distinguish good art from exceptional art

* Experience mentoring artists and managing quality across teams

* Ability to work quickly, iterate fast, and adapt to changing priorities

* Experience in mobile, casual, casino, social casino, or midcore games

* Strong understanding of 2D production workflows

* Familiarity with Unity, Cocos2D, or similar game engines

* Proficiency with Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, Blender, Spine, After Effects, or similar tools

* Strong English communication skills

## Nice to Have
* Experience as an Art Director, Lead Artist, Principal Concept Artist, or Senior Concept Artist on shipped games

* Experience building visual direction from scratch for multiple projects

* Background in gaming, social casino, or regulated gaming products

* Knowledge of mobile game UX, readability, iconography, and player motivation

* Experience with animation, VFX, motion design, or particle systems

* Experience working with distributed or outsourcing art teams

* Familiarity with AI creative tools and workflows

* Ability to contribute hands-on production art when needed

## What Success Looks Like

* Strong and memorable visual identity across the game portfolio

* Consistently high-quality concept art and visual development

* Fast and effective exploration of new game ideas

* Efficient production workflows and clean implementation

* Clear artistic direction and strong collaboration across teams

* High-quality gameplay experiences with polished visuals and strong player appeal

## Portfolio Expectations

Please include:

* High-quality concept art

* Character and environment design

* Visual development process examples

* Production-ready or shipped game art

* Examples across multiple styles

* Art direction, leadership, paint-overs, or before/after improvements

* Nice to have: assets implemented in Unity, Cocos2D, or mobile game pipelines

Design System Lead / Design Ops (Remote)

Our client is looking for a Design System Lead / Design Ops Specialist to help build an AI-friendly design system for an AI-first coaching platform.

This role sits at the intersection of product design, design systems, and AI-assisted prototyping. You will help create reusable UX patterns, scalable components, and structured documentation that improve collaboration between designers, engineers, and AI tools.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain a scalable Figma design system

Define reusable components, variants, tokens, layouts, and interaction patterns

Create clear and AI-friendly documentation for modern AI-assisted workflows

Collaborate with product, UX, and engineering teams to transform product flows into reusable UI patterns

Improve consistency between design and frontend implementation

Support rapid prototyping for dashboards, onboarding flows, feedback systems, and learning experiences

Establish Design Ops processes including naming conventions, governance, QA, versioning, and component adoption

Requirements

4+ years of experience in UI/UX, Product Design, Design Systems, or Design Ops

Strong expertise with Figma: components, variants, auto-layout, variables, design tokens, and prototyping

Experience building or maintaining design systems for complex digital products

Ability to simplify complex product logic into scalable UX patterns

Understanding of design-to-code workflows and collaboration with frontend engineers

Interest in AI-assisted design workflows and modern prototyping tools

English — Upper-Intermediate or higher

Nice to Have

Experience with AI products, gaming, coaching platforms, educational products, analytics systems, or complex dashboards

Familiarity with tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Figma MCP, v0, Lovable, Framer, Webflow, or Storybook

Basic frontend knowledge (HTML, CSS, React, Tailwind)

Experience creating structured documentation for both humans and AI systems

Interest in strategy games or skill-based products

What Success Looks Like

A clean, scalable, AI-friendly design system

Faster feature prototyping without losing consistency

Improved design-to-development collaboration

AI-assisted tools generating outputs aligned with product patterns and UI logic

Conditions

Remote

Flexible collaboration

Long-term product opportunity

Senior Spine Animator (Characters & Props for Games)

We are hiring a Senior Spine Animator for our client — a gaming product company creating stylized real-time interactive experiences for global audiences.

We’re looking for an experienced 2D Spine Animator with strong keyframe animation skills and solid production experience in game development. This role focuses on creating expressive character and prop animations for real-time gameplay, as well as building clean and production-ready Spine rigs for efficient integration into game engines.

The ideal candidate combines strong artistic taste, technical understanding, and the ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced collaborative production environment.

Responsibilities

Spine Animation Production

• Create high-quality character animations with strong acting, personality, and emotional expression
• Animate props, gameplay elements, and occasional UI components
• Build clean, reusable, and production-friendly Spine rigs
• Collaborate closely with animation leads, artists, and technical teams
• Implement feedback efficiently throughout all production stages
• Work within established visual styles while maintaining animation quality and consistency
• Support asset integration workflows for Unity and other real-time pipelines

Pipeline & Workflow

• Maintain full animation workflow:
  • Rigging
  • Key poses
  • In-betweens
  • Secondary motion
  • Polish
  • Export & integration
• Maintain organized file structures and naming conventions
• Follow production tracking and task management processes
• Collaborate with adjacent teams on asset preparation and optimization

Requirements

Must-Have

• 5+ years of experience in Spine 2D animation for games
• Strong mastery of:
  • Posing
  • Timing
  • Arcs
  • Weight
  • Acting
  • Emotional animation
• Advanced Spine knowledge, including rig creation and animation workflows
• Solid understanding of export, optimization, and integration pipelines
• Experience working in collaborative cross-functional production teams
• Strong communication and feedback implementation skills
• English, Mandarin, or Ukrainian proficiency

Nice to Have

• Experience with Photoshop or digital drawing tools
• Familiarity with VFX and video editing workflows
• Ability to draw poses, storyboards, animatics, or expression sheets
• Experience with frame-by-frame or 3D animation
• Experience working with Unity pipelines

What Success Looks Like

• High-quality and expressive character animation
• Clean, scalable, and production-friendly Spine rigs
• Efficient collaboration across art and technical teams
• Smooth integration into real-time game pipelines
• Consistently polished animation quality across projects

What We Offer

• Remote / hybrid flexibility
• Optional relocation support
• Hardware allowance
• Flexible paid time off policy
• Learning & development budget
• International production environment
• Long-term collaboration on stylized real-time products

Employment: Remote, full-time
Engagement length: Long-term, 12 months
Start: Mid-October
Time zone: CET (candidate location is flexible — EU, Balkans, Ukraine, CIS, Asia, Africa, Middle East)

Required:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building scalable applications (frontend + backend)
• Python/Django/DRF — 5+ years
• Strong experience with REST API design and third-party integrations
• Proven expertise in scalable system architecture
• Git, CI/CD setup and management
• React.js — 3+ years of commercial experience
• TypeScript
• Redux/RTK or MobX
• SWR or RTK-Query
• React Hooks
• SASS/Bootstrap or similar
• English Upper-Intermediate+ (able to lead technical calls)

Nice to have:

• Docker/Kubernetes
• AWS/Azure/GCP

We are an established iGaming company with 4+ years of experience and a team of 1600+ specialists, managing 10+ large-scale projects across Tier 1–3 markets.

As part of our strategic growth, we are partnering with a professional SEO company operating in highly competitive iGaming and casino niches. Their team builds and scales SEO strategies where results and a systematic approach truly matter.

We are supporting them in the search for a strong Senior SEO who will scale the direction, build high-performing teams, and drive sustainable project growth.

Requirements

• Expert-level expertise in working with expired/drop domains: full command of all types of drop-domain strategies, ability to select the optimal setup for a specific domain and objective, and accurately forecast outcomes.
• Development of proprietary domain screening and evaluation systems: formalized criteria, weighted scoring models, automated or semi-automated validation workflows.
• Deep expertise in backlink profile analysis: ability to identify complex manipulations (multi-layered schemes, artificial growth patterns, “washed” domains), and assess the long-term sustainability of domain authority.
• Proven experience in building and scaling PBN networks (full-cycle management).
• Strategic thinking: ability to build long-term strategies tailored to specific markets, account for regulatory risks, and adapt quickly to algorithm updates.
• Expert-level semantic analysis: deep understanding of SERP dynamics across keyword clusters, ability to identify undervalued clusters with low competition and high growth potential.
• Technical SEO expertise at the architectural level: designing drop-site structures, managing crawl budget across large-scale networks, working with log files, and rendering optimization.
• Infrastructure management: design and administration of server infrastructure for drop networks (VPS, dedicated servers, IP rotation, CDN, Cloudflare), large-scale DNS management.
• Hands-on experience with process automation: Python (parsing, domain data processing, monitoring), integration of Ahrefs / Majestic / GSC APIs into proprietary dashboards.
• Strong understanding of gray-hat markets at an expert level, including SERP behavior, scheme sustainability, and regulatory risks.
• Experience managing SEO teams: KPI setup, onboarding, and performance evaluation.
• Analytical and ROI-driven mindset: evaluating profitability of each domain and building P&L models.
• Leadership skills: ability to assign tasks, make final strategic decisions, and take ownership of the overall direction and results.
  
  Nice to Have
• Participation in the development of internal tools or scalable processes: SOPs, screening checklists, domain evaluation frameworks that can be rolled out across the team.
• Experience working with domain brokers and handling direct off-auction deals.
  
  Key Responsibilities
• Develop and oversee the overall strategy: define target markets, domain types, priority usage models, and department KPIs.
• Design and scale the entire drop-domain operation: from search criteria to performance monitoring, including process standardization, automation, and knowledge transfer to Middle and Junior specialists.
• Make final decisions on domain acquisitions: evaluate lots, participate in auctions for key domains, and negotiate with brokers.
• Develop and continuously improve domain screening and scoring systems, adapting criteria to algorithm updates and market conditions.
• Make architectural infrastructure decisions: design server structures, manage hosting networks, and minimize network-level footprints.
• Develop and test new drop-domain usage strategies; document results and scale successful approaches.
• Conduct strategic analytics: forecast the performance and ROI of new investments.
• Collaborate with Team Leads and management: provide regular reporting, participate in strategic sessions, and justify investment decisions.
• Lead and manage the team: delegate tasks, ensure quality control, mentor Middle and Junior specialists, and onboard new hires.
• Monitor Google algorithm updates, industry trends, and competitor activity, adapting the strategy in real time.

We’re an AI startup helping brands improve Meta Ads performance through data-driven creative analysis and the development of new ad concepts.

We’re looking for a part-time Creative Strategist (10–30 hrs/week to start) who will take ownership of the analytical side of creative testing. You’ll work with real ad accounts, combining your own expertise with insights from our AI-powered creative analysis platform.

What you’ll do:

• Analyze static and video ad performance and identify which hypotheses are worth testing.
• Evaluate which audiences, pain points, hooks, angles, and creative formats perform best.
• Analyze video type, structure, and length to understand what drives stronger results.
• Turn winning patterns into clear, actionable creative briefs for designers and editors, including references, messaging, headlines, and execution details.

What we’re looking for:

• Hands-on experience analyzing or shaping creative strategy for Meta Ads with $30k+ monthly ad spend.
• Experience across 3+ brands or niches within the last 1–2 years.
• Strong practical experience with US-market Meta Ads across multiple brands or niches.
• Proven experience developing and testing creative hypotheses with measurable impact on CAC, CPA, CTR, CVR, or revenue.
• Agency experience or work with multiple freelance clients is a plus.

When applying, please briefly describe 2 cases you’re most proud of:
What was the niche, monthly ad budget, what did you change, and how did the results improve?

Applications that include these cases will be reviewed first.

Required skills:

• Сommercial experience in Android development;
• experience in implementing Material Design and well designed UI;
• advanced knowledge Kotlin skills;
• experience with web service technologies (REST, JSON, XML);
• knowledge of RxJava/Coroutines, MVP, MVVM, Dagger 2, Databinding;
• solid understanding of OOP principles;
• experience with SQLite, Room, Real;
• experience with REST, GraphQL, Web socket;
• technical English.

Responsibilities:

• Develop mobile applications for Android;
• interact with team members on the project;
• study new technologies, adapt to changing trends.
 

Will be a plus:

• Knowledge С++;
• knowledge of Clean Architecture;
• understanding of Android architecture components;
• understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
 

We offer:

• Flexible working hours (8—10:30AM start);
• pleasant working atmosphere;
• opportunities for self-development, professional and career growth;
• professional seminars and training;
• payment for the in-office English language courses;
• corporate parties and various professional events with the team.
 

About the project:

Do you want to work in a friendly and creative atmosphere? To grow as a professional and develop new skills?
So, we are welcome you to be a part of our team!
Our slogan: “Developing yourself — developing our company”.
VRG Soft is a team in which everyone is ready to help each other, and the opinion of each employee is always considered.
We will be glad to get to know you and tell a lot more about us!

About Our Client

Our client is a leading enterprise data platform company building an open, high-performance data lakehouse for AI and analytical workloads. The platform combines an intelligent SQL query engine, an AI-ready semantic layer, and an open catalog built on Apache Iceberg — enabling Fortune 500 companies across finance, energy, manufacturing, and logistics to unify, query, and govern data at massive scale across cloud and on-premise sources.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer for the data catalog and enterprise data management layer of a large-scale lakehouse platform — the services that automate data ingestion and autonomously optimize Apache Iceberg tables. You will own features through the full development cycle, from design through deployment, in a multithreaded, distributed environment where scalability, performance, and always-on availability are the baseline expectations.

This is a systems-level, backend engineering role focused on data infrastructure internals — not application development or CRUD services.

Responsibilities

• Own the full software development cycle — inception, design, development, testing, deployment — for catalog and data-management services
• Build and operate services for automated ingestion and autonomous optimization of Apache Iceberg tables
• Reason about concurrency and parallelization to deliver scalability and performance in multithreaded, distributed systems
• Drive performance tuning and system-efficiency improvements
• Work with Apache Foundation open-source projects, contributing upstream where agreed
• Participate in code and design reviews, upholding a high engineering bar
• Collaborate with product managers, support teams, and solution architects on feature requests and design updates
• Partner with US-based engineering leads on technical decisions

Required Qualifications

• B.S., M.S., or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably focused on database systems or related fields
• Strong object-oriented programming skills in Java or C++
• Solid grounding in data structures and algorithms
• Hands-on experience with multithreaded and asynchronous programming patterns for scalable, performant systems
• A passion for engineering quality — zero-downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime as first-class concerns
• Comfort with a fast-moving environment; strong ownership; the confidence to defend a technical position and the openness to be mentored
• Comfortable with AI-assisted development workflows — using modern AI tools productively while critically validating their output
• English Upper-Intermediate or higher (B2+) — daily written and verbal communication with a US-based engineering team
• Availability to work EU business hours shifted 2–3 hours later for daily overlap with US West Coast mornings

Desired Skills

• Database internals and query planning
• Distributed systems: concurrency control, data replication, storage systems
• Apache Iceberg or other open table formats (Delta Lake, Hudi)
• Messaging systems: Kafka, NATS, or cloud pub/sub services
• Contributions to open-source data infrastructure (Apache projects especially valued)

Details

• Engagement: Long-term contract
• Location: Europe (EU / EEA / UK), remote
• Working hours: EU business hours, shifted 2–3 hours later for daily overlap with the US West Coast team

About Our Client

Our client is a leading enterprise data platform company building an open, high-performance data lakehouse for AI and analytical workloads. The platform combines an intelligent SQL query engine, an AI-ready semantic layer, and an open catalog built on Apache Iceberg — enabling Fortune 500 companies across finance, energy, manufacturing, and logistics to unify, query, and govern data at massive scale across cloud and on-premise sources.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate production AI agent and search services on top of a large-scale data platform. This is hands-on work at the intersection of distributed backend engineering and applied AI: multi-agent workflows, tool-execution infrastructure, retrieval and relevance, and integrations with multiple LLM providers — all running as real, customer-facing production services with the reliability expectations that implies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable multi-agent workflows (including conversation state), tool-execution infrastructure, and data-aware tools working with catalogs, schemas, lineage, SQL, jobs, semantic metadata, data preparation, and visualizations
• Build search and retrieval capabilities with OpenSearch or equivalent — indexing, relevance tuning, hybrid keyword + vector search
• Integrate multiple LLM/model providers with secure configuration and graceful degradation
• Develop APIs and event contracts across REST, streaming/SSE, gRPC, protobuf, and SDKs, including UI integrations
• Operate, monitor, and improve production services — service health, logs, metrics, traces, search-cluster health, latency, and error rates; participate in the team's production-support model
• Investigate incidents, drive root-cause analysis, and ship durable fixes
• Design for permissions, tool approvals, multi-tenancy, and customer-data governance
• Maintain dependencies, apply security fixes, and reduce tech debt; produce designs, tests, runbooks, and documentation; lead technical discussions and review code

Required Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent demonstrated senior-level impact
• Strong Java software engineering skills
• Strong grasp of concurrency, data structures, API design, testing, maintainability, and backward compatibility
• Solid background in distributed systems, microservices, cloud services, or data-intensive backends
• Hands-on experience with search technologies — OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Lucene — including vector search, embeddings, or relevance systems
• Experience building LLM applications, agent/tool workflows, RAG systems, or model-provider integrations
• Strong production instincts: diagnosing failures via logs, metrics, and traces; designing for fault tolerance, retries, cancellation, and recovery
• SQL and familiarity with data platform concepts: catalogs, metadata, schemas, governance, lineage
• Comfort leading ambiguous, cross-service work with clear stakeholder communication and strong written documentation
• Comfortable with AI-assisted development workflows — using modern AI tools productively while critically validating their output
• English Upper-Intermediate or higher (B2+) — daily written and verbal communication with a US-based engineering team
• Availability to work EU business hours shifted 2–3 hours later for daily overlap with US West Coast mornings

Desired Skills

• LangChain4j or similar agent frameworks
• Python for AI services, evaluation harnesses, or sandboxed execution
• React and TypeScript
• gRPC, protobuf, Quarkus, Kubernetes, MongoDB, KV stores, event-driven architectures
• Apache Arrow, Apache Iceberg, OpenLineage, semantic layers, or data-governance systems
• AI quality evaluation: LLM-as-judge, model benchmarking, production AI metrics
• OpenSearch operations: index lifecycle management, relevance tuning, incident response
• Open-source contributions

Details

• Engagement: Long-term contract
• Location: Europe (EU / EEA / UK), remote
• Working hours: EU business hours, shifted 2–3 hours later for daily overlap with the US West Coast team

Level: Senior Engagement: Long-term contract Location: Europe (EU / EEA / UK), remote Working hours: EU business hours, shifted 2–3 hours later to ensure daily overlap with US West Coast (PST/PDT) mornings

About the Client

Our client is a leading enterprise data platform company building an open, high-performance data lakehouse for AI and analytical workloads. The platform combines an intelligent SQL query engine, an AI-ready semantic layer, and an open catalog built on Apache Iceberg — enabling Fortune 500 companies across finance, energy, manufacturing, and logistics to unify, query, and govern data at massive scale across cloud and on-premise sources.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and own significant components of the core query engine of a large-scale distributed data platform. You will lead work across query planning, optimization, and execution — driving architectural decisions, mentoring middle engineers, and pushing the platform's performance and scalability boundaries across all major clouds.

This is a systems-level, backend engineering role focused on distributed data processing internals — not application development or CRUD services.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and implement significant components of the query engine — planner, optimizer, execution operators, memory management, and data access layers.
• Write and review high-quality, performance-critical code in Java and/or C++.
• Own end-to-end delivery of features from technical design through production rollout.
• Drive performance optimization work — profiling, benchmarking, and eliminating bottlenecks in latency- and throughput-sensitive paths.
• Integrate deeply with columnar formats, open table formats, and connectivity drivers.
• Mentor middle engineers, lead code reviews, and set technical standards for the team.
• Contribute to CI/CD architecture and quality processes across Jenkins, containerization, and multi-cloud deployment (GCP, AWS, Azure via Kubernetes / Docker).
• Debug complex, cross-layer issues spanning query planning, distributed execution, memory management, and I/O.
• Partner with US-based engineering leads on design reviews, architectural decisions, and roadmap execution.

Required Qualifications

• Education: B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Programming: Strong proficiency in Java or C++, with deep understanding of OOP, systems design, memory management, and concurrency. Candidates strong in both are especially valued.
• SQL & Data: Advanced SQL skills and strong understanding of query execution internals — planning, optimization, and operator implementation.
• Data processing systems experience: Demonstrated experience building or extending data processing systems — query engines, distributed databases, ETL/ELT frameworks, or analytical platforms.
• Engineering experience: 5+ years in backend/systems software engineering, with a track record of owning significant components.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Solid experience with Jenkins and modern engineering workflows.
• Containers & Orchestration: Strong working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Cloud: Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud (GCP, AWS, or Azure); exposure to more than one is a strong plus.
• Version Control: Confident with Git / GitHub workflows and rigorous code review practices.
• English: Upper-Intermediate or higher (B2+) — daily written and verbal communication with a US-based engineering team.
• Availability: Able to work EU hours with a 2–3 hour shift toward US West Coast time to ensure daily overlap with the client team.
• Leadership: Prior experience mentoring engineers, leading technical designs, or owning components end-to-end.

Desired Skills

• Deep experience with Apache Arrow (columnar in-memory format).
• Hands-on experience with Apache Calcite (SQL parsing, planning, optimization framework).
• Experience with Gandiva or LLVM-based expression compilation and code generation.
• Experience with open table formats — Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi.
• Deep familiarity with distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka) and MPP SQL query engines (e.g., Presto, Trino, or similar).
• Deep understanding of query planning, optimization (cost-based, rule-based), and execution internals.
• Experience with data connectivity drivers: JDBC, ODBC, Arrow Flight.
• Kubernetes on managed services (GKE / EKS / AKS) and multi-cloud exposure.
• IaC tools such as Terraform.
• Track record of performance optimization at the systems level — profiling, vectorization, cache/memory-conscious design.
• Prior experience contributing to open-source data infrastructure projects.
  Please note: We can consider only candidates currently residing in the EU, EEA, or the UK