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Backend Engineer

We're looking for a talented and passionate Backend Engineer, to join Wildlife's Creatives Vertical team in São Paulo, Brazil.

As a backend engineer, you'll play a key role in building and maintaining a creatives recommendation platform used in all of Wildlife's user acquisition campaigns. You'll work in a multidisciplinary squad composed of software and data engineers with the focus of leveraging the work done by our artists and business analysts from the Marketing Art and User Acquisition departments.

Our main goal is to empower and enable each of those teams to do their work faster and better, making our games reach the next billion people. We'll need you to understand both our systems and the business, in order to identify needs and opportunities together with our clients and to design secure, resilient systems with great usability and performance.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature, and comfortable in a "take the initiative" environment, loves solving problems, and can thrive in a fast and growing business.

What you'll do

• Be part of a cross-functional team, directly designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining systems and platform products;
• Work proactively and closely with data scientists, software and data engineers, and product managers to improve our creatives platform;
• Design and propose solutions that speed up deliverables in other Creatives Squads;
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve problems in the production environment. Being proactive in identifying issues will be key for your success;
• Contribute to the best practices of development, reliability, and availability of our systems;

What you'll need

• University degree in courses related to computing such as Computer Engineering and Computer Science or equivalent experience;
• Good analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills;
• Proven understanding of computer science concepts (data structures, networking, concurrency, memory management, algorithm analysis, etc);
• Knowledge and experience with Python or Go are a differential;

More about you

• Technically skilled. You have knowledge about systems design and have focus on studying how to design, maintain, and stable systems;
• Metrics focused. We are metrics oriented and our systems have a great impact on the work of other teams. You aim to create products that leverage data for decision-making.
• Team player. You know that great work can only be achieved through collaboration and diversity of ideas. You are willing to help out wherever needed and are always looking for different inputs from your team.

About Wildlife

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Today, we have offices in Brazil, Argentina, Ireland, and the United States. Here, we create games that will excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come!

Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We're committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.