Senior Game Backend Developer

Gram Games is the studio behind some of the most popular mobile titles in the world like Merge Dragons!, Merge Magic!, 1010! and we have more awesome projects in the pipeline. As our project portfolio is growing, we now are looking for a Senior Game Backend Developer to join us in our London offices

We do things differently here: we work in small self-managing teams, enabling you to have an incredible amount of ownership, autonomy and impact. We'll never ask you to abandon your craft and just focus on managing others or workload. At Gram everyone is expected to have a razor-sharp focus on what creates tangible impact: impact on their team, impact on their work environment and impact on the overall company strategy.

As a Backend Developer at Gram Games, you'll jump onto one of our largest projects and put yourself right in the center of the action. The successful candidate will work with the game team to implement new backend features as well as maintaining the current online features. Ideally you will have a high level of game server experience and would have worked on high traffic and high available systems..

Responsibilities:

- Design, implementation and maintenance of game backend services for live games

- Writing robust code to be used in high traffic services

- Monitoring and maintenance of live systems

- Developing new features for games

- Troubleshooting problems on production environment and on our live systems

- Communicating with game teams to define and implement requirements

- Developing tools to monitor, troubleshoot and debug systems

- Knowledge of real-time multiplayer games and backends

Requirements

- Experience in the gaming industry

- Experience on concurrency and distributed systems

- Good SQL experience, database design and implementation skills

- Good experience with Docker and Linux

- Ability to design fail-proof systems and operating them with minimal downtime

- Ability to communicate with game teams to define and implement requirements

- Previous experience on high available and high throughput systems

- Good knowledge of functional testing and load testing

Desirables :

- Nakama game server experience

- Knowledge of real-time multiplayer games and backends

Benefits

In return for bringing your expertise to this top priority role, we can offer some of the best benefits in the Games industry!

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Relocation assistance for those moving to the UK
• Life insurance and a favourable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
• Yoga, massages, fitness classes
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!