Principal Engineer

Scopely is looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Star Trek Fleet Command team in Shanghai.

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

Star Trek Fleet Command's ongoing success goes from strength to strength. Our in-house developed 4X MMO was launched in 2018 and continues to evolve, being consistently one of the top 10 gross revenue Massive Multiplayer Strategy games on the market.

What You Will Do

• Work with our MMORTS game services, which support millions of daily players
• Improve our developer experience through process and technology improvements
• Increase our game quality and reduce costs of operation through profiling and improving code and architectures
• Demonstrate problem-solving skills and a dedication to continuously improving application performance and scalability
• Participate in code review to ensure high-quality, clean coding standards are met
• Collaborate with our Publishing Partners as well with our central Technology Teams in Europe and the USA
• Be part of the on-call schedule to support our publishing partner with urgent and tricky issues
• Implement features and changes needed to make STFC successful in China
• Fix bugs and crashes

What We’re Looking For

• Highly experienced being part of a professional development team or other relevant area
• Experience in developing highly available back-end systems and servers for large-scale
• Strong development skills in Python
• Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems, Containerization technology and Microservice system, as well as Redis, MySQL (or similar database systems)
• Experience with stateful and stateless game server architectures
• Good understanding of how to prevent intrusions, injections, cheating etc.
• Experience in large or medium-sized online games
• Experience in version control, especially multi-track development and familiarity with deployments methodologies and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with automated testing

Bonus Points:

• Experience with AWS, Terraform, Elasticsearch, Prometheus
• Experience with Protobuf, Websockets
• Low latency or real time systems
• Star Trek Fan

At Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that! We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us & embrace the adventure!

About Us

Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as "MONOPOLY GO!," “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “Stumble Guys,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” and “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others.

Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience across multiple platforms--from mobile, web, PC and beyond.

Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry.

Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.

Scopely has global operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia, EMEA, and North America, and is home to many internal game development teams, referred to as Scopely Studios, with additional game studio partners across four continents.

Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy.

For more information on Scopely, visit: scopely.com.

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