Principal Software Engineer · Razer

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:57:38 GMT
Engineering

Razer · Chengdu · onsite

Joining Razer will place you on a global mission to revolutionize the way the world games. Razer is a place to do great work, offering you the opportunity to make an impact globally while working across a global team located across 5 continents. Razer is also a great place to work, providing you the unique, gamer-centric experience that will put you in an accelerated growth, both personally and professionally.

What you'll do

As Principal Java Engineer in Razer Gold, you will lead the overall backend system development and play a key role in the Razer Gold Engineering team. You will be reporting to the Head of Software Engineering in Razer Gold and working very closely with other engineering functions, product managers and various business stakeholders to lead system modernization efforts.

Proactively drive the design and implementation of the Razer Gold core backend system.

Engaging with Product and various partner teams for business and technical requirements.

Driving the review of the technical design and implementation of the team.

Leading the team to tackle challenging technical issues.

Helping the team to grow and prepare for the foreseeable technical challenges.

Setting example by building high-quality code with unit test and automation test

Stay on top of any critical issues and drive to the finish line.

Leading the team to migrate the existing system to a new tech stack

What you need

BA/BS in Computer Science, Math, Physics, or other technical fields.

8+ years of experience in E-Commerce Java based core system design and implementation

Experience in building highly scalable, high availability online system.

Solid hands-on experience in JVM tuning and heap dump analysis. Good understanding of GC mechanisms and familiarity of Java profiling.

Experience in .Net system is a huge plus

Experience in DB system, especially Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL DB.

Experience with at least one of major public cloud services, especially AWS