Posted at: 13 March
Senior AI Programmer
Company
Playrix is a Dublin-based mobile game developer specializing in free-to-play casual puzzle and city-building games, with a global reach and a B2C business model.
Remote Hiring Policy:
Playrix supports remote work and hires internationally, with team members located in various regions such as Ireland, Serbia, Cyprus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. Employees can work from anywhere in the world, except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.
Job Type
Full-time
Allowed Applicant Locations
Worldwide
Job Description
About the companyPlayrix is one of the most successful mobile game development companies
in the world. In terms of mobile application revenue, we rank first in Europe
and are in the top 3 worldwide. Our games have been installed 2.3 billion times (that's a third of the world's population!) and more than 30 million people around the world play them every day.Team, about the roleWe’re looking for a Senior AI Programmer to join a team building innovative AI solutions for our hit game Fishdom. In this role, you’ll design and implement an AI-powered test generation system for games—an internal tool that will make testing faster and easier, uncover unusual edge-case bugs, and improve overall release quality.A key part of the challenge is that there’s no off-the-shelf solution for this on the market, so the work involves a lot of engineering R&D and independent ownership. You’ll be expected to stay on top of rapidly evolving AI technologies, quickly validate ideas in practice, and make sound technical decisions.Instead of a pre-defined plan split into many small tasks, this is an open ownership area: you’ll help define the direction, set priorities, and build the roadmap.TasksDevelop and evolve the internal AI Automation Framework.Set up, maintain, and improve the AI autotests pipeline, ensuring stable runs, reproducible results, and scalability.Drive AI R&D: explore and validate approaches, prototype solutions, and take successful experiments to production.Our stackStack: TeamCity, Kotlin DSL, Python (tests in Pytest), an in-house testing framework (RPC communication between tests and C++ game clients), Claude Code, GitHub, Cursor, AppiumRequirements4+ years of backend development experience with Python.Hands-on AI experience: building and shipping solutions from idea to production.Proven track record integrating AI/LLMs into real products or internal systems.Experience with CI/CD (TeamCity, Jenkins, or similar).Strong understanding of system architecture and ability to design scalable solutions.PreferredExperience with Claude Code or other LLM-powered tools for code generation and analysis.Experience building and deploying AI agents.Experience with mobile automation tools (e.g., Appium).Our PerksFlexibility at work For most positions we offer a flexible schedule, and employees can work from anywhere in the world. You can do your work however and wherever you like — we only evaluate your results.Caring for health and well-beingWe provide voluntary health insurance for employees and their children, and reimburse online sessions with a psychologist.We offer fully paid vacation days and sick leave. In certain circumstances, you can request additional days off.We support leading a healthy lifestyle and reimburse the cost of gym memberships and fitness app subscriptions.Professional development and educationWe pay for participation in specialized conferences and courses and hold our own internal conferences.We cover foreign language courses.Events and merchWe regularly hold offline events like team meetings, big corporate parties, and informal office parties.We also regularly organize fun competitions, quizzes, hackathons, and online fitness challenges.We have a merch store with an internal currency you can use to buy unique gifts. We give out this currency as a gift for significant dates, and you can earn more by participating in events and company activities.