Senior Backend Engineer

Were looking for a hardworking and passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join Wildlifes Engineering team.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our companys success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature and comfortable in a take the initiative environment loves solving problems and can thrive in a fast and growing business.

The Backend Team at Wildlife is reinventing itself. It started providing services for the games online features and has since evolved to provide a platform that leverages the best of our teams when creating operating and distributing our games.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our companys success and to achieve that we work with a broad technology stack and have an approach of being fully responsible for our systems from their conception to incident resolution and troubleshooting in production.

We own several services that combined serve more than 1 million requests per minute. We know this number will only grow and were looking for engineers that can help with the challenges of developing backend systems that perform well at a large scale.

What youll do

• Lead the design and implementation of critical backend and platform services contributing to platform-wide architecture and technical strategy.
• Drive impact by prioritizing what matters most for players and internal customers partnering with product data and other engineering teams including collaborating on features and tools that can benefit from AI where it makes sense.
• Own the operational excellence of your services defining SLIs/SLOs improving observability reducing toil and driving reliability performance and cost efficiency using automation and AI-assisted tooling when helpful.
• Identify and execute technical and process improvements that reduce complexity improve developer experience and make it easier for other teams to build on our platform including adopting or integrating AI-powered tools that speed up development and incident response.
• Mentor and support other engineers and strengthen our culture through thoughtful code and design reviews clear documentation and active participation in hiring and calibrations also sharing good practices on how to safely and effectively use AI in day-to-day engineering work.

What youll need

• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent tech areas and/or equivalent experience.
• Solid hands-on experience in backend and distributed systems development ideally in high-scale environments.
• Solid understanding of computer concepts (data structures networking concurrency memory management and algorithm analysis).
• Excellent knowledge of software testing concepts (testability escape rate regression unit integration soak stress test automation).
• Experience owning projects end-to-end: from scoping and milestones to rollout monitoring and post-release improvements.
• Ability to communicate clearly and at the right altitude depending on the audience (engineers PMs leadership).

Nice to have

• Experience developing and maintaining systems with a high volume of requests.
• Experience developing systems in the games industry.
• Experience developing systems in the ad tech ecosystem.
• Experience developing platform products.
• Experience in Golang.
• Experience in Unity development.

More about you

• Youre passionate about software development and know how to ensure its quality.
• Youre motivated by building up back-end services and are aware of its different architectures.
• Experienced working in an environment which uses and stimulates DevOps culture;
• Youre creative when solving problems and are continuously seeking improvements for processes and solutions.
• You can communicate clearly with your team and the company to identify issues and demands.
• You enjoy mentoring and unblocking others sharing context and being a technical reference that people seek out.
• You contribute to engineering culture beyond your team: tech talks RFCs postmortem reviews hackathons or other initiatives that raise the bar for everyone.

About Wildlife

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles reaching billions of people around the globe. Today we have offices in Brazil Finland and the United States. Here we create games that will excite intrigue and engage our players for years to come!

Equal Opportunity

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race colour national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local law.

Were committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.