Senior Platform Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Design, create, and manage the backend services that facilitate real-time collaborative editing, game publishing, and content delivery.

• Take full ownership of systems from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and production operations.

• Advance the scalability of the platform, focusing on stateful real-time workloads, session routing, and service fleets within a cloud-native environment.

• Establish the APIs and service contracts that the editor and partner teams will utilize.

• Enhance our infrastructure and delivery methodologies, emphasizing infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automated deployment processes.

• Collaborate closely with product and design teams to convert vague problems into reliable, shipped features.

• Promote reliability and observability while assisting the team in responding to and learning from production challenges.

• Guide and mentor fellow engineers, elevating quality across the team through code reviews and design input.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant professional experience in designing, building, and operating backend services in a production environment.

• Strong expertise in one or more modern backend programming languages, with the adaptability to work across multiple languages.

• A solid understanding of distributed systems, including API design, data persistence, state management, and their associated trade-offs.

• Practical experience with cloud platforms and containerized, orchestrated deployments.

• A proven history of owning services in production, encompassing monitoring, debugging, and incident response.

• A pragmatic approach with comfort in dealing with ambiguity, shipping iteratively, and making sensible trade-offs under tight deadlines.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical team members.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.

• Travel subsidies.

• Employee participation in stock ownership.

• Competitive retirement/pension plans.

• Generous vacation and personal leave policies.

• Support for new parents with leave and family support programs.

• Free office snacks.

• Mental health and wellness programs and support.

• Employee resource groups.

• Global employee assistance program.

• Training and development programs.

• Volunteer programs and matching gift initiatives.