3 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Support live-ops initiatives and game design releases with comprehensive 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 backend technical roadmap initiatives and scalable, high-performance architecture for live mobile games.
- Design and deliver high-impact features bridging server-side logic with game client requirements.
- Unblock Product, Design, QA, and Analytics teams while facilitating technical discussions and mentoring teammates.
- Contribute hands-on feature development across client and server codebases while maintaining code quality.
- Identify and mitigate technical debt and operational bottlenecks to improve team velocity.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software development experience in gaming or large-scale live-service applications.
- Deep expertise in backend engineering with high-level server-side languages and frameworks.
- Experience collaborating with game client engineers using technologies such as Unity and C#.
- 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 systems, live events, and monetization.
- Strong understanding of the interaction between backend services and Unity clients.
- Experience leading technical planning and execution in complex cross-functional environments.
- Experience managing technical roadmaps while balancing feature delivery and system health.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong communication, leadership, collaboration, mentorship, ownership, and pragmatic problem-solving skills.
- Résumé/CV must be written in English.
Benefits
- Remote work is available in the United States or Canada.
- Hybrid work is available in Mexico City.
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.