Job Description

Job Title - Senior Backend Developer
Salary - £35,000
Location - Birmingham (Remote)
Relocation/Sponsorship - Neither available
Reporting to - TD
Perm/Contract - 12-Month FTC, turns into Perm after contract end
 
Role Summary - As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth operation and performance of our gaming infrastructure. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance backend services that support real-time online games and applications. You will work closely with game teams to establish service requirements to deliver secure, scalable and engaging multiplayer experiences 
 
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 identify opportunities for optimization.
• Implement security and data protection methods to protect player information and comply with data protection laws
• Collaborate with player support and other teams to address issues and improve player experience.
• Keep informed on the latest development in backend technologies and ensure our solutions remain relevant
• Provide guidance and support for junior team members
• Create and maintain documentation for relevant and interested parties regarding backend infrastructure

Experience/Skills:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or comparable discipline.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, with a focus on multiplayer games
• Strong experience with cloud services such as AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS, Elasticache) or equivalent
• Strong understanding of containerization platforms such as Kubernetes, ACI, EKS or similar
• Database management (MySQL, NoSQL).
• Source control and code review tools (Git/Perforce/Swarm).
• Highly motivated and able to learn new technologies quickly.
• 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.
• Stress-testing, performance-tuning, and optimization skills.
• Debugging in multi-threaded environments.
• Excellent communication skills

 
Please get in touch with me, Ben McKenna-Smith if this position sounds of interest. I am a consultant at mustard with a specialist approach to creative recruitment.

For more info on this role or to chat about other options call me on 01174200015 or the office on 0117 929 6060. You can also email me at ben.smith@mustardjobs.co.uk

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