Senior Backend Software Engineer

4 weeks ago


Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom DPS Games Full time
Lead Backend Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Lead Backend Engineer to join our team at DPS Games. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for leading the development of our game's backend systems, ensuring they are scalable, performant, and meet the needs of our players.

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for:

  • Leading the technical direction of our backend systems, including decisions on tech stack, frameworks, libraries, and tools.
  • Promoting the use of coding best practices, including clean code, SOLID principles, design patterns, and efficient system designs.
  • Ensuring scalability and performance, handling scaling challenges, optimizing development, deployment, and operations processes.
  • Managing the backend team, including career development, performance reviews, 1-2-1s, mentoring, training, and recruiting.
  • Working closely with other team leads, producers, and project managers.
  • Collaborating with outsourcing partners in the gaming industry.

We are looking for someone with:

  • Expertise in designing large-scale distributed systems for gaming platforms, particularly those involving real-time multiplayer, microservices, and high-availability infrastructure.
  • Extensive knowledge of game-specific architectures (microservices, actor systems), ability to design efficient, low-latency data exchange systems between clients and servers.
  • Experience in promoting effective development processes, fostering collaboration, adherence to clean code practices, and test-driven development.
  • Extensive programming experience as a principal or above (Kotlin, Java, Python, C/C++, C#).
  • Deep understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructures to manage large-scale game services. Experience in using Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerization/orchestration tools.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, and ensuring automated deployment and scaling of game backends.
  • Effective communication skills to collaborate effectively with other teams, including game designers, game and systems programmers, producers, and project managers.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring that business needs are translated into scalable technical solutions while aligning technical direction with product goals.

We offer a competitive salary, benefits package, and opportunities for career growth and development. If you are a motivated and experienced Lead Backend Engineer looking for a new challenge, please submit your CV in English to ensure smooth processing and review.



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