Role overview

Senior Backend Engineer- MPG- Fully remote from the UK or the EU

Requirements and responsibilities

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Requirements

  • Experience in game development and having worked on at least two game titles in a commercial setting developing server backends for AAA games, free-to-play (mobile) games, casino apps or similar
  • Experience releasing at least two backend services with a large number of concurrent users
  • Production experience with at least one of Java, Golang, C#, C++, Kotlin; experience with Python, Node.js and React is desirable
  • Experience with cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure; having an AWS Certification (Associate or above) would be advantageous

Requirements

  • Experience with infrastructure as code tools, e.g. Terraform
  • Ability to create supporting documentation, designs, comments, etc
  • Ability to discuss technical and production matters
  • Excellent time management and ability to work autonomously
  • Experience building distributed applications
  • Attention to detail with ability to comprehend and follow direction
  • Clear communicator with the ability to verbalise conceptual thoughts and the willingness to accept constructive critique
  • Experience with Git or Perforce, or other source control software
  • Ability to adapt to new tools, languages, and concepts as required by the project

Requirements

  • Knowledge of Microservices and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), especially Kubernetes and Docker
  • Experience building a CI/CD pipeline to validate and test code
  • Awareness of security/cheating implications of technology choices
  • Experience using Gen AI for code generation

Beneficial

  • Demonstrable database experience with both SQL and NoSQL
  • Understanding of how a backend service integrates with the game - experience with Unreal or Unity would be useful but not required
  • Experience with high-scale distributed applications with a concurrent user base ranging in the hundreds of thousands, with high uptime, and performant services
  • An understanding of how to use LLMs to process and query structured and unstructured data

Responsibilities

  • Individual contribution: construct systems, write code, deployments, etc.
  • Work with the team lead and stakeholders to estimate and prioritise work
  • Work alongside peers to iterate on solutions that fit requirements
  • Keep the project lead and producer apprised of revised estimates and delivery times
  • Promote and maintain high standards and process: tests, CI/CD, documentation
  • Help and support team members in day-to-day work
  • Understand, maintain and expand existing code and develop new features or systems
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FocusBackend EngineeringRole area
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StackAWS, Azure, CI/CDPrimary skills
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