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Job title: Backend Engineer
The Role You’ll Play Collaborate with Product, Design, and QA teams to iterate on backend architecture and deliver end-to-end solutions. Design and build reliable, scalable APIs and microservices that power core platform functionality. Apply engineering best practices such as automated testing, code reviews, and proactive monitoring to maintain high system reliability. Seek diverse feedback and use it to improve code quality and team collaboration. Participate in roadmap planning and design discussions, contributing thoughtful insights and technical expertise. Keep user experience top of mind, building systems that delight both studio partners and end users.
Experience You Bring Significant experience building and scaling backend systems for large-scale SaaS products. Strong background in object-oriented programming languages such as C# or Java. Experience designing service-oriented and microservice-based architectures. Familiarity with modern monitoring and observability tools (e.g., New Relic, Kibana). Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), design patterns, and Agile methodologies. Proven ability to assess feature impact, identify potential risks, and design for long-term maintainability. Detail-oriented, collaborative, and driven by a desire to build excellent systems. Strong verbal and written communication skills in a professional setting.
Technologies You’ll Work With Backend Languages: JAVA, Kotlin, Python Frontend: React Databases: SQL and relational database systems Monitoring: New Relic, Kibana Workflow: Agile processes, cross-functional collaboration
Have we piqued your curiosity? Sound like the role for you? We’d love to hear from you! Even if you’re not 100% sure about potential fit, we still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for the right person, not the perfect series of checkboxes.
The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We highly value diversity at our company and encourage people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other protected characteristics.
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