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Senior Backend Engineer

As Senior Backend Engineer, reporting to our Technical Delivery Manager, you will build and maintain technology to support the studio and teams across Drest. You will work in close collaboration with our game teams and enjoy a creative, challenging and collaborative workplace where your ideas will be every bit as valued as your programming expertise.

You are passionate about new technologies, system development, large scale systems and of course games! Naturally proactive, you will actively contribute with ideas and solutions and thrive working in an ever evolving environment as Drest grows, both as a product and company.

Requirements

• Design and implement new systems, services and features.
• Write magnificent code and review your peers’ in a collaborative environment using proven design patterns and experiential wisdom.
• Make quick, sound estimates and propose alternatives to save on implementation time.
• Identify and drive codebase improvements with your peers.
• Plan against and tackle new challenges that arise during development.
• Optimise our stack for performance and scalability.
• Work closely with your Technical Delivery Manager to deliver features for the teams across Drest.
• Participate in knowledge sharing sessions to improve team’s knowledge and experience through learning and sharing.
• Collaborate and communicate with other teams to define and build features to meet expectations.
• Contribute to a positive development culture and create a safe and inclusive environment for all.
• Adapt and grow with Drest, a dynamic environment and regularly learn and share.

Must haves..

• Development experience supporting a live game in a fast paced environment.
• Proficient in architecting, designing and implementing server side components, features and systems for a scalable live game.
• Expertise in at least one server side language (e.g. Node/Typescript, Python, C#, Java, PHP) with a desire to develop in Typescript.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB, Couchbase) and caching technologies (e.g. Redis).
• Experience in designing, implementing and working with APIs and microservices.
• Excellent understanding of software engineering fundamentals (design patterns, architecture at scale, maintainability over time, data structures, robust API design, etc.).
• Broad knowledge of game architecture and technologies (gameplay, economy, graphics, etc.).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD processes and proficient in the use of source control solutions such as GIT.
  • Good grasp of Agile principles and methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
  • A passion for games, including mobile.

Nice to haves..

• C# and Unity Knowledge.
• Client development experience.
• Good understanding of the challenges involved in maintaining, iterating and scaling a product.
• Experience supporting implementation of 3rd parties SDKs (e.g. Facebook, Firebase, etc.).
• Experience with asynchronous, multi-threaded, parallel programming paradigms and other techniques to maximize responsiveness and do operations in background.
• Experience with industry-standard bug reporting software such as JIRA.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent.

Benefits

What you will get in return

• Collaborative team
• Competitive salary
• 25 Days holiday
• EMI Share Scheme
• Private Medical
• Life Assurance
• Remote friendly, flexible working hours
• Birthday day off
• and more!