Backend Engineer -

As a Backend Engineer - you will be responsible for designing building and enhancing features for our game platform focusing on applications used by our game teams as a service that are interfacing with other internal and external the beginning you will work on extracting loosely coupled microservices out of our monolithic PHP application. The services will be running on a distributed architecture in the Google Cloud. Your work will align with best practices in stability performance scalability security and maintainability.

In this role you will collaborate closely with game designers producers and other stakeholders to create innovative services that enhance the player experience and enable internal stakeholders to work more efficiently.

YOUR MISSION

• Extracting loosely coupled microservices written in out of our PHP monolith. However you need to be comfortable with working in other languages like PHP as well.
• Responsibility for maintaining and extending some of the central sgared services that are used by game teams and other stakeholders like game design and monetization.
• Design develop test deploy maintain and improve our software with high-quality maintainable code.
• Leverage AI tools and technologies to enhance development efficiency code quality and problem-solving capabilities.
• Work closedly with game designers and product leads to implement new features with an interest in learning the complementary full-stack technologies.
• Communicate and collaborate within a cross-functional team and with other teams to ensure a smooth daily workflow.
• Actively participate in technical decisions influencing the architecture of our services and platform.
• Drive initiatives to enhance the stability performance and scalability of our platform and live games.
• Contribute high-quality maintainable Typescript code using a wide range of technologies such as Nestjs Jest Mocha Turbopack GitHub Docker MySQL Pub/Sub and Redis.

YOUR PROFILE

• 4 years of proven experience in development demonstration strong coding and debugging skills.
• Proficiency in popular frameworks such as and Jest.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively integrate AI tools into development workflows for code generation debugging and technical research.
• Be familiar with or eager to learn other languages like PHP or Java.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• You have a proactive attitude towards learning new technologies and improving existing skills including leaving the comfort zone of your programming language.
• You have experience developing and maintaining multi-server high-load backend services and APIs.
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databased including MySQl PostgreSQL MongoDB or similar.
• Strong automated quality mindset using unit testing integration testing and other test automation frameworks.
• You are enthusiastic about games and ideally strategy games.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) CI/CD (GitHub Actions) networking and debugging distributd systems is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.

Why Youll Love Working With Us

A Global Team A Shared Purpose

Our strength lies in our diversity. With over 30 nationalities represented across our two locations were united by a shared passion for strategy games and a bold vision for the future. We celebrate what makes each of us uniqueour perspectives our stories and the paths that led us here.

Work Your Way

Whether youre crafting code from a harbor-view desk in Hamburg or fine-tuning design details under the Maltese sun we support flexible hybrid work models that empower you to do your best workwherever you are.

Grow With Us

At Twin Harbour your journey matters. Our Career Path Framework and mentorship culture provide the clarity and feedback you need to take the next stepwhether youre deepening your expertise or branching into new disciplines. We invest in your growth with language courses e-learning platforms and support for conferences and training.

Were Human First

We believe that great teams are built on trust respect and good humor. From game nights to casual drinks quiz nights and karaoke we dont just work togetherwe connect play and support each other like a true crew.

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Where Strategy Meets Vision.