Senior Backend Engineer
4 weeks ago
This is a challenging role for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a studio based in the Midlands, UK who work on co-development projects as well as their own IP.
Key Responsibilities- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services that support real-time online games and applications.
- Work closely with game development teams to establish service requirements and deliver secure, scalable, and engaging multiplayer experiences.
- Oversee the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of backend services and on-demand deployment of servers.
- Collaborate with Player Support and other teams to address issues and improve the player experience.
- Provide guidance and support for less experienced team members.
- Keep informed on the latest developments in backend technologies and ensure the studio's solutions stay relevant.
- 5 or more years of hands-on experience in backend development, ideally with a focus on multiplayer games.
- Strong understanding of cloud services such as AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Elasticache) or equivalent.
- Experience with 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.
- 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.
- 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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