Senior Java Backend & DevOps Engineer (Gaming, High-Scale Systems)
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11 hours ago
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Job Summary
Join a team where your code doesnt just ship features - it keeps entire game worlds alive for tens of thousands to millions of players. At Goodgame Studios youll work on always-on distributed systems for modern games where latency throughput and uptime are measured in real player impact. This isnt CRUD; its high-scale mission-critical backend engineering.
The Role: Were looking for a Senior Engineer who is equally strong in backend Java and cloud operations on AWS. You will design implement deploy tune and operate critical backend systems that must withstand unpredictable load patterns and deliver consistent low-latency performance.
Your Mission:
Full lifecycle ownership: architecture coding infra deployment production scaling.
Design and operate high-throughput low-latency Java services (JDK 17).
Build resilient distributed components and optimize memory concurrency and GC for production workloads.
Architect databases and caching layers (MySQL Redis) for millions of player rows.
Maintain CI/CD pipelines AWS infrastructure and implement robust observability and monitoring.
Participate in advanced on-call rotations and troubleshoot live production issues.
What You Bring:
6 years backend experience with expert-level Java.
Deep understanding of AWS distributed systems concurrency memory tuning and SQL optimization.
Comfort with production ownership and operational decision-making.
Passion for high-scale systems where performance and reliability matter.
Nice to have:
Gaming backend experience (matchmaking inventories leaderboards).
Event-driven architectures (Kafka Kinesis SQS/SNS).
Real-time telemetry or anti-cheat systems.
Why Youll Love It:
Build systems players interact with every minute.
Engineering-first culture with high autonomy and impact.
Tackle genuinely interesting technical problems with a modern challenging stack: Java MySQL Redis AWS distributed systems.
In this role youll join Goodgame Studios. Collaborate closely with our 30 dedicated professionals employ your initiative and strong communication skills to seamlessly integrate your ideas into our MMO pioneer games with more than 200 million registered players worldwide and a history of more than 1bn in revenues. If youre ready to take on this challenge and thrive in a high-target environment we want you on our team!
Goodgame Studios is known for successful strategy titles and data-driven game development. We self-publish our games in-house and have all relevant professions under one roof. Plus we are part of Stillfront Group one of Europes leading game publishers with a strong focus on long-term IP growth.
Key Skills
- REST
- Eclipse
- Junit
- Spring
- Struts
- SOAP
- Jpa
- Hibernate
- Maven
- J2EE
- Jdbc
- Java
About Company
Goodgame Studios is a leading free-to-play, online games development company active on web and mobile platforms. We self-publish our games in-house and have all relevant professions under one roof: Game Development, Quality Assurance, Community Management and Customer Support to Busin ... View more
