2 days ago
Remote, Spain or Barcelona, SpainSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and evolve systems that validate and improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of AWS backend services.
- Define service-level expectations for latency, throughput, and error rates and validate them under realistic operating conditions.
- Build frameworks and tooling that simulate production scenarios involving multi-service interactions, high concurrency, and network variability.
- Develop and maintain load, stress, and endurance testing systems integrated into CI/CD pipelines to detect regressions.
- Analyze metrics, logs, and distributed traces to identify bottlenecks and drive improvements across services.
- Define and promote testing strategies covering unit tests, integration tests, and appropriate testing-layer guidance.
- Build tooling, patterns, and practices that support a shift-left quality culture.
- Collaborate with feature teams to improve backend system design, resilience, and scalability.
- Use AI tools and agentic workflows for planning, code generation, code review, and solution exploration.
Requirements
- Highly experienced software engineer with backend, distributed-systems, public-cloud, and performance-testing experience.
- Professional experience building and operating highly available, scalable backend systems such as MMO servers, high-traffic services, or real-time applications.
- Experience with Python, asynchronous programming, concurrency, and performance considerations.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven service communication, failure modes, resilience patterns, and stateful versus stateless architectures.
- Experience designing highly scalable, low-latency systems using technologies such as Redis or DynamoDB.
- Strong API design knowledge and ability to write efficient, low-latency code.
- Experience with AWS and containerized deployments using Docker.
- Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience using Datadog, logs, and tracing to analyze and debug system behavior.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Claude Code.
- Experience with load-testing frameworks such as K6 or Locust is preferred.
- Understanding of SRE concepts including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets is preferred.
- Experience load testing messaging systems such as NATS is preferred.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL is preferred.
- Familiarity with Terraform, cloud networking, VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancing, Kibana, and modern observability stacks is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Barcelona or remote work in the UK, Ireland, Portugal, and the rest of Spain.
- Scopely can support visa sponsorship from any location.
About Scopely
Scopely develops, publishes, and live-operates free-to-play games across mobile, PC, and console, including MONOPOLY GO!, Stumble Guys, Star Trek Fleet Command, MARVEL Strike Force, WWE Champions, and Yahtzee With Buddies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Culver City, California, it uses its Playgami technology platform and collaborates with studios worldwide. In 2023, Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group and continues to operate as an independent subsidiary.