SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER

West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

11/6/2024

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Senior Backend Engineer

UK Remote or West Midlands Based – Birmingham/Worcestershire Area

Please Note: We welcome applicants that prefer to work from home, so please get in touch!

Role And Purpose

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth operation and performance of our gaming infrastructure. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance backend services that support real-time online games and applications. You will work closely with game teams to establish service requirements to deliver secure, scalable and engaging multiplayer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of backend services and on demand deployment of servers
• Work with designers and other disciplines to understand game requirements, deliver backend solutions and help integrate user-facing elements with services
• Ensure the scalability and reliability of services for millions of concurrent users
• Analyse system performance and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Implement security and data protection methods to protect player information and comply with data protection laws
• Collaborate with player support and other teams to address issues and improve player experience.
• Keep informed on the latest development in backend technologies and ensure our solutions remain relevant
• Provide guidance and support for junior team members
• Create and maintain documentation for relevant and interested parties regarding backend infrastructures.
  
  

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or comparable discipline.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, with a focus on multiplayer games
• Strong experience with cloud services such as AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS, Elasticache) or equivalent
• Strong understanding of containerization platforms such as Kubernetes, ACI, EKS or similar
• Database management (MySQL, NoSQL).
• Source control and code review tools (Git/Perforce/Swarm).
• Highly motivated and able to learn new technologies quickly.
• Knowledge of relevant console platforms certification requirements (XRs and TRCs etc)
• Expertise with microservices and languages such as Java, Kotlin, C# or similar
• Experience with message queue systems such as RabbitMQ or similar
• Experience with product development lifecycle.
• Stress-testing, performance-tuning, and optimization skills.
• Debugging in multi-threaded environments.
• Excellent communication skills
  
  

Desirable Skills And Experience

• Technologies such as Zookeeper, Terraform, Ansible, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Spark, Redis, MongoDB, CosmoDB, Xsolla Backend(AcceleratXR), Pragma, Playfab, Epic Online Services, Unity Game Services, Firebase, Edgegap, Photon
• Game engine experience with Unreal or Unity
• Web application development experience (NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript)
• Proficiency in Linux operating system and troubleshooting
• Google gRPC and protobuf knowledge.
• Automated Testing
  
  

Portfolio

Please send through your portfolio and cover letter. If your examples are from previous works with another studio, please make sure samples are cleared for release by copyright owners. Links to an online portfolio are preferable, otherwise we accept showreels via Dropbox or other secure sharing platforms.

Send your application to – careers@flixinteractive.com

What We Offer

Based just outside Birmingham, Flix offers a friendly, nurturing work environment with the opportunity to build games as part of an extremely talented, ambitious studio. The team is made up of welcoming, passionate, active gamers that support one another in all aspects of development.

We Also Offer The Following

• Private healthcare.
• Additional time off over the Christmas period on top of standard holidays.
• Bonus scheme.
• Team outings and events.
• Summer BBQ + Festive party.
  
  

If you have the drive and skills for making games and think you have what it takes to work within our team then we’d love to hear from you.

For more information visit our site – Flix Interactive

Alternatively, call our recruitment team on – 01527 958 177

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