AI Backend Engineer

Build AI-Powered Backend Systems as our new AI Backend Engineer (Python/AWS)

If youre ready to combine your expertise in backend engineering with the exciting world of AI this is your chance. Were building cutting-edge AI experiences for gamers powered by a specialised domain LLM and agentic systems and we need your skills to make it happen.

How We Make an Impact

Gameopedia began with a simple mission: to be the ultimate gamer friend helping gamers discover the best games with top-tier recommendations. Today we deliver industry-leading video game data and insights to some of the worlds biggest companies including Google YouTube Samsung LG and Amazon shaping millions of gaming decisions globally.

As the global leader in game metadata with metadata for more than 200K games we are becoming an AI-first company crafting advanced AI solutions that transform the gaming industry. At the heart of this is our domain-specific Gaming LLM and AI-driven services that power discovery personalisation and development.

How Youll Make an Impact

As an AI Backend Engineer youll design build and operate the services that make our AI experiences reliable secure and scalable. Youll own production APIs AWS infrastructure and integrations with LLMs and agent frameworks ensuring that our AI products run smoothly and cost-effectively in the real world.

What We Expect You to Do

• Backend & APIs:

  • Design and own Python microservices and APIs (FastAPI; GraphQL a plus).

  • Build event-driven and batch workloads (AWS Step Functions/EventBridge SQS/SNS Fargate Lambda S3).

  • Implement authentication/authorization (OIDC/OAuth2 JWT) request validation rate-limiting and guardrails.

  • Ensure reliability with observability tools (New Relic logging metrics tracing APM).

  • Write clean well-tested production-ready code.

• Cloud Architecture (AWS):

  • Ship with Infrastructure-as-Code (AWS CDK) and GitHub Actions for CI/CD.

  • Containerize and deploy services (Docker) on ECS Fargate/EKS; use Lambda where appropriate.

  • Design secure scalable cost-efficient architectures (VPC ALB NAT private subnets autoscaling).

  • Operate and optimize data/storage layers (Postgres/RDS/MySQL DynamoDB Redis S3).

• AI/LLM & Agents:

  • Integrate our Gaming LLM and external providers (Gemini OpenAI MCP) with tool/function calling.

  • Build agent orchestration and safe tool execution (LangGraph CrewAI schema validation guardrails).

  • Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) prompt management evaluation harnesses caching.

  • Track and improve quality latency and cost; implement fallbacks timeouts and safety filters.

What We Think Youll Need to Succeed

• 35 years building backend systems in Python; strong CS/engineering fundamentals.

• 3 years designing and operating systems on AWS in production.

• Proven experience shipping production APIs (FastAPI) with testing and observability.

• Practical experience integrating LLMs or agents in real products (function calling RAG LangGraph/CrewAI MCP).

• Proficiency with Docker GitHub Actions and IaC (CDK).

• Strong grasp of performance resiliency and security (IAM least privilege networking TLS).

Bonus XP (Nice-to-Haves)

• GraphQL (Apollo) and async Python (uvicorn/asyncio) expertise.

• MLOps familiarity (model packaging registries monitoring) and vector databases.

• Experience with AWS cost/performance optimization.

• Passion for video games and the gaming ecosystem.

Your First 6 Months with Us

• Ship a hardened Agent Orchestrator service with observability and autoscaling on AWS.

• Launch a versioned prompt/evaluation pipeline with automated regression checks.

• Expose secure public APIs for recommendations and discovery complete with clear SLOs and dashboards.

What Youll Get From Us

• A passionate team thats shaping the future of gaming with AI.

• Managers and teams who genuinely care about your well-being personal growth and success.

• An attractive compensation package with comprehensive health insurance paid parental leave pension plan and ESOP.

• A collaborative inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued.

• Hybrid work flexible scheduling with a central office right by Lillestrm train station just 10 minutes from Oslo S.

• A work culture built on our values: Extra-Ordinary Human-Centric Committed Clear & Transparent and Integrity.

Ready to Level Up Your Backend Engineering Career

If youre looking for the opportunity to apply your backend and AI skills to shape the future of gaming wed love to hear from you. Share your CV portfolio GitHub or anything else that shows us your story. What matters most is making a connection.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace because we know that the best gaming experiences and AI systems are built by diverse minds. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and walks of life to apply. Join us in creating extraordinary experiences for gamers and the gaming industry worldwide.