Senior Backend Engineer

3 weeks ago

West Midlands Combined Authority, United Kingdom Aardvark Swift Recruitment Ltd Full time

This Senior Backend Engineer role is at a studio based in the Midlands, UK who work on co-development projects as well as their own IP.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play an important role in ensuring the smooth operation and performance of the studio's games infrastructure.

You will handle designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance backend services that support real-time online games and applications. Working closely with game development teams you'll establish service requirements to deliver secure, scalable and engaging multiplayer experiences.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Oversee the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of backend services and on-demand deployment of servers
  • Work with Designers and other disciplines to understand game requirements, deliver backend solutions and help integrate user-facing elements with services
  • Ensure the scalability and reliability of services for millions of concurrent users
  • Analyse system performance and find opportunities for optimisation
  • Implement security and data protection methods to protect player information and follow data protection laws
  • Collaborate with Player Support and other teams to address issues and improve the player experience
  • Keep informed on the latest development in backend technologies and ensure the studio's solutions stay relevant
  • Provide guidance and support for less experienced team members
  • Create and maintain documentation for relevant and interested parties regarding backend infrastructures

The Skills and Experience You'll Bring to the Role:

  • Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or comparable discipline
  • 5 or more years of hands-on experience in backend development, ideally with a focus on multiplayer games
  • Experienced with cloud services such as AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Elasticache) or equivalent
  • Strong understanding of containerisation platforms such as Kubernetes, ACI, EKS or similar
  • Database management (MySQL, NoSQL)
  • Source control and code review tools (Git/Perforce/Swarm)
  • Knowledge of relevant console platforms certification requirements (XRs and TRCs etc)
  • Expertise with microservices and languages such as Java, Kotlin, C# or similar
  • Experience with message queue systems such as RabbitMQ or similar
  • Experience with product development lifecycle
  • Comfortable with stress-testing, performance-tuning, and optimisation
  • Debugging in multi-threaded environments
  • Effective communication skills

Desirable but Not Essential Skills and Experience:

  • Technologies such as Zookeeper, Terraform, Ansible, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Spark, Redis, MongoDB, CosmoDB, Xsolla Backend (AcceleratXR), Pragma, Playfab, Epic Online Services, Unity Game Services, Firebase, Edgegap, Photon
  • Game engine experience with Unreal or Unity
  • Web application development experience (NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript)
  • Proficiency in Linux operating system and troubleshooting
  • Google gRPC and protobuf knowledge
  • Automated Testing

Perks and Benefits:

  • Fully remote working from within the UK
  • Private healthcare
  • Bonus scheme
  • Additional time off over the festive period
  • Team outings and events
  • Summer BBQ and Festive party

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