2 days ago
Remote, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement performance and reliability strategies for scalable backend systems, including latency, throughput, and error-rate expectations.
- Build frameworks and tooling to simulate production scenarios involving multiple services, high concurrency, and network variability.
- Develop load, stress, and endurance testing systems and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines to identify regressions before production.
- Analyze metrics, logs, and distributed traces to identify bottlenecks and improve backend services.
- Define and drive testing strategies covering unit tests, integration tests with Testcontainers, and performance testing.
- Build tooling, patterns, and best practices that enable shift-left quality and early regression detection.
- Collaborate with feature teams to improve backend design, resilience, and scalability.
- Use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows for planning, coding, review, and solution exploration.
Requirements
- Highly experienced software engineer with backend, distributed-systems, public-cloud, testing, or performance-testing experience.
- 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, 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 scalable, low-latency systems using technologies such as Redis or DynamoDB.
- Strong API design knowledge, including REST and gRPC, and the ability to write efficient low-latency code.
- Experience with AWS and containerized deployments using Docker.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure automation, and observability tools such as Datadog, logs, and tracing.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Claude Code, and understanding of agentic workflows.
- Preferred experience with K6 or Locust, SRE concepts such as SLA, SLO, and error budgets, NATS load testing, MySQL, Terraform, cloud networking, VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancing, Kibana, and Datadog dashboards.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Barcelona or remote work from the UK, Ireland, Portugal, or elsewhere in Spain.
- Visa sponsorship is supported from any of the listed locations.
- Opportunity to work on an ambitious unannounced multiplayer strategy/MMO game with a global game development company.
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.