Base Salary
$145k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Support live-operations initiatives and game design releases with backend support before and after launch.
- Coordinate with the design team throughout game updates and content releases.
- Lead incident management, reliability hardening, and operational readiness for production systems.
- Drive the backend technical roadmap and scalable, high-performance architecture for live mobile games.
- Design and deliver high-impact features connecting server-side logic with game client requirements.
- Unblock Product, Design, QA, and Analytics teams, facilitate design discussions, and mentor teammates.
- Contribute hands-on feature development across client and server codebases while maintaining code quality.
- Identify and mitigate technical debt and operational bottlenecks.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software development experience in gaming or large-scale live-service applications.
- Deep backend engineering expertise with high-level server-side languages and frameworks.
- Experience collaborating with game client engineers, including Unity and C#, to deliver integrated features.
- Experience designing scalable systems and managing live-service operations.
- Familiarity with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure and modern CI/CD practices.
- Experience with content pipelines and performance optimization.
- Experience building and supporting player-facing features such as progression, social features, live events, and monetization.
- Experience leading technical planning, managing technical roadmaps, and balancing feature delivery with system health.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong communication, leadership, collaboration, mentorship, ownership, and problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- Remote work in the United States or Canada, or hybrid work in Mexico City.
- Healthcare, retirement, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid Scopely free days, and unlimited paid time off.
- Potential eligibility for equity and bonuses.
- Candidates must attach a résumé/CV written in English.
Tech Stack
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About Scopely
Scopely is a leading global interactive entertainment and video game company, home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises, including the most successful mobile game ever launched "MONOPOLY GO!," along with "Stumble Guys," "Star Trek™ Fleet Command," "MARVEL Strike Force," "WWE Champions" and "Yahtzee® With Buddies," among many others. Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games across mobile, web, PC and console that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami™ that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry. Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies” and as a TIME100 “Most Influential Company In the World,” Scopely has surpassed $10 billion in lifetime revenue due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years. Scopely has global operations across North America, Central America, EMEA and Asia, with additional game studio partners across four continents. Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy. For more information on Scopely, visit: scopely.com.