Senior Backend Engineer
1 week ago
Job Overview
">This Senior Backend Engineer role is based in the Midlands, UK, and involves working on co-development projects and the studio's own IP.
Your 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 for secure, scalable, and engaging multiplayer experiences.
- Oversee the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of backend services and on-demand deployment of servers.
- 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.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in backend technologies and ensure the studio's solutions remain relevant.
- Provide guidance and support for less experienced team members.
- Create and maintain documentation for relevant stakeholders regarding backend infrastructures.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a comparable discipline.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience in backend development, ideally with a focus on multiplayer games.
- Experience 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 skills, including MySQL and NoSQL databases.
- Proficiency with source control and code review tools, such as Git/Perforce/Swarm.
- Knowledge of relevant console platforms certification requirements.
- Expertise with microservices and languages such as Java, Kotlin, C#, or similar.
- Experience with message queue systems such as RabbitMQ or similar.
- Comfortable with stress-testing, performance-tuning, and optimisation.
- Effective communication skills.
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.
Estimated Salary: £80,000 - £110,000 per annum
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