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Backend Engineering Tech Lead

About the team

The Backend Team at Wildlife is reinventing itself. It started providing services for the games online features and has since evolved to provide a platform that leverages the best of our teams when creating, operating and distributing our games.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and in order to achieve that, we work with a broad technology stack and have a mindset of being fully responsible for our systems, from their conception to incident resolution and troubleshooting in production.

We own several services that, combined, serve more than 1 million requests per minute. We know this number will only grow and we're looking for engineers that can help with the challenges of developing backend systems that perform well at large scale.

About the role

Wildlife is searching for an engineering lead to join our Backend team. We seek engineers with solid programming and systems design knowledge. Since we are always looking for new tools and technologies that better solve our problems, we value professionals that like to learn new things, are autonomous and proactive to bring and implement their ideas.

As a backend engineer, you'll work directly with several teams such as the games teams, product, marketing, data science, and data engineering to develop world-class platforms that are used in our games' creation, operation, and distribution. 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 our systems flows, identify common demands from different teams, and work in close collaboration both within the team and with different parts of the organization to design secure, resilient systems with great usability and performance.

As a tech lead, you'll be accountable for the technical approach and code quality the team delivers. You'll ensure the team has good engineering practices and delivers as frequently as possible while maintaining low technical debt. 

Who you are

• Empowering teams is key to scaling. We look for engineers that have a history of designing systems and services that enable others to do their best work. You have a keen eye for common features and demands and can build from different requirements and expectations to a common ground.
• Metrics focused. We are metrics oriented and our systems have great impact on the performance of our games. You have an analytic mindset and focus on ensuring great visibility to your clients. You aim for top-level system design, guaranteeing the highest availability possible.
• High scale and low-latency. You are excited about the challenges brought by high scale and low-latency requirements. You thrive when discussing the architecture and best practices of such systems and have great attention when developing its internals to ensure an efficient and easily maintainable code.

What you'll do

• Ensure the team delivers technology solutions that solve the business problem and are of high quality.
• Contribute to the best practices of development, reliability, and availability of our systems.
• Design, implement, deploy and maintain systems and platform products that will be used in the games' development, operation and distribution.
• Coaching and mentoring junior engineers.
• Validating design proposals with the team.
• Identify common demands from clients, design and propose solutions that improve everything from their operation to the end-user experience.
• Detect and fix problems in production environment.
• Handle great volumes of data in real-time systems.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Solid understanding of computer science concepts (data structures, networking, concurrency, memory management, algorithm analysis, etc).
• 3+ years of software development professional experience.
• Experience leading teams of at least 5 people.

Bonus points if

• 5+ years of software development professional experience.
• Project management experience.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Postgres.
• Experience solving problems and optimizing the performance of APIs.
• Experience developing and maintaining systems with a high volume of requests.
• Experience developing systems in the games industry.
• Experience developing systems in the ad tech ecosystem.
• Experience developing platform products.
• Business knowledge about advertising operations.
• Business knowledge about the games industry.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build the best gaming company, where everyone thrives.