Senior Backend Developer (New Games)

Who we are:

Lets have fun shaping your future!

We are Socialpoint a world-renowned mobile game studio proudly part of the Zynga & Take-Two Interactive family. Were the creators of hits like Dragon City Two Dots Top Troops and Monster Legends loved by hundreds of millions of players around the craft the best social games bringing joy from Barcelona to the world. Now we want to bring the world to Barcelona! At Socialpoint work and play intertwine seamlessly and we celebrate the diversity that makes us stronger. No matter who you are or where youre from youre welcome here. Join us for a future where making games is as thrilling as playing them!

Position Overview:

Were looking for software engineers that will work on services for games that are played & loved by several million users every day all over the world. Those services must scale-out to serve high users traffic every day and must be developed with the highest quality this competitive industry requires. We expect from our developers to keep our tech state-of-the-art and at the same time come up with great new ideas.

What Youll do:

• Our backend applications are developed using several programming languages & technologies (Golang PHP AWS EC2 Kubernetes etc) so you should be eager to work with our legacy code extend maintain & continuously refactor the backend of our games.
• Your job is not only about writing code. You will also have to work with other roles like mobile developers data analysts and systems engineers to integrate your components as well as write technical designs documentation knowledge share and train other team members.
• As a backend engineer you will also be part of our games team and work closely with game design player experience mobile and other departments. You will be integrated with business decisions as part of our technology strategy.

What You Bring:

• At least 3 year of experience as a Backends Engineer
• Proactive team player that is ready to work with diverse roles and people
• Background in programming languages like PHP and Golang
• Excellent strategic decision-making skills and a strong sense of responsibility/ownership
• Prefer maintainable code over overengineering
• Able to design implement and maintain code in systems.
• Able to manage infrastructure and understand what happens behind your code
• Able to explain complex problems to both technical and non-technical people
• Able to understand and tune application scalability performance and reliability

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts cultures and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability objective qualifications and work ethic not an individuals race creed color religion sex or gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin or ancestry alienage or citizenship status physical or mental disability pregnancy age genetic information veteran status marital status status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses reproductive health decision or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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