2 days ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and evolve systems that validate and improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of backend services running on AWS.
- Define service-level expectations for latency, throughput, and error rates and validate them under realistic conditions.
- Build frameworks and tooling to simulate production scenarios involving multi-service interactions, high concurrency, and network variability.
- Develop and maintain load, stress, and endurance testing systems integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
- Analyze metrics, logs, and distributed traces to identify bottlenecks and drive improvements across services.
- Define and drive comprehensive testing strategies across backend services, including unit and integration testing with test containers.
- Build tooling, patterns, and best practices that support shift-left quality and early regression detection.
- Collaborate with feature teams to improve backend system design, resilience, and scalability.
- Use AI tools and agentic workflows for technical planning, code generation, code review, and solution exploration.
Requirements
- Highly experienced software engineer with backend, distributed systems, public cloud, or related experience and a strong interest in testing and performance testing.
- Professional experience building and operating highly available and scalable backend systems such as MMO game servers, high-traffic services, or real-time applications.
- Experience with Python and its ecosystem, including 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 and low-latency systems using Redis, DynamoDB, or similar technologies.
- Strong API design knowledge, including REST and gRPC, and ability to write efficient low-latency code.
- Experience with AWS and familiarity with Docker-based containerized deployments.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, 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 and familiarity with agentic workflows.
- Bonus: experience with K6 or Locust load-testing frameworks.
- Bonus: understanding of SRE concepts including SLA, SLO, and error budgets.
- Bonus: experience load testing messaging systems such as NATS.
- Bonus: experience with relational databases such as MySQL.
- Bonus: familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform.
- Bonus: understanding of VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancing, cloud networking, Kibana, and modern observability stacks.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Barcelona or remote work from the UK, Ireland, Portugal, or elsewhere in Spain.
- Scopely can support visa sponsorship from any location.
- Opportunity to join an early-stage team developing an ambitious unannounced multiplayer strategy/MMO title.
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.