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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

GSN Games, a leading developer in mobile and social games, is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer for our Grand Casino mobile game. You will be working closely with a small cross-functional group of game developers based in Ukraine and Spain.

About the GSN Super Casual Studio:
It’s an exciting time in our SuperCasual studio! We believe that play matters and that’s why we create genre-leading games that are fun, engaging and rewarding. Joining GSN Games will give you a platform to work on incredible games while working alongside the best people in the business!

What You’ll Do:

• Express your creativity as a backend game developer
• Design, develop, and operate our Grand Casino mobile backend infrastructure and services
• Balance between practical and ideal engineering practices to achieve goals effectively
• Analyze and optimize backend systems for quality
• Design and present new technical ideas and solutions to the team
• Investigate problems with the live game and fix them on the fly

About You:

• English: intermediate+
• Minimum of 4 years professional experience in programming backend cloud services
• A burning desire to help make our games the best that it can be for our players
• Effective verbal and written communication with a development team
• Strong proven Java, multithreaded programming, and distributed systems architecture
• Meaningful experience and knowledge of core AWS and/or GCP (products, infrastructure, and operations)
• DevOps mindset
• Solid experience using #NoSQL and/or SQL databases
• Familiar with git repositories
• Solid design patterns, data structures, and logic skills
• Proficient at extending and improving an established code base
• Service-oriented attitude with an eye for efficiency and workflows
• Familiar with agile methodologies

Bonus Points!

• History in game development
• Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related Engineering degree.
• Deep knowledge of backend scalability and resilience
• Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Containers, and/or Container Orchestration
• Expertise in building highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed services is an advantage
• Experience using test-driven development
• Experience with NodeJs and other dynamic languages

Solitaire TriPeaks - iOS: http://bit.ly/tripeaks-ios Android: http://bit.ly/tripeaks-android

Solitaire TriPeaks is our most successful game (so far!). It is #1 in revenue for the mobile solitaire category, a top 50 grossing game on both iOS and Android and still growing.

Grand Casino - iOS: https://bit.ly/grandcasino-ios Android: https://bit.ly/grandcasino-android

GSN invites you to the GRAND OPENING of the most dazzling online casino around featuring slot machines, free poker games and video bingo all in one amazing REAL casino app!