Senior Backend Engineer (UK Remote)

Aardvark Swift Recruitment Ltd; West Midlands Combined Authority; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Job description

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 include…

• 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