Remote Principal Backend Engineer - Worthing
Climax Studios, Worthing
Remote Principal Backend Engineer - Worthing
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Climax Studios, Worthing
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 10 Jul | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 0b0e26f3a1204dd88fbf18029f946e7a
Location ref: Worthing
Full Job Description
- Architect systems, write code, and support deployments as an individual contributor
- Act as the engineering contact point between us and the client, working alongside the Project Manager and Engineering Leadership
- Translate client requirements into tasks for yourself and team members
- Make the right trade-offs to design systems based on performance, time, and budget
- Mentor and delegate work to help develop other team members as engineers
- Create estimated cost spreadsheets for online services based on projected concurrent users
- Cultivate engineering best practices across teams, including modular design, code quality, and testing
- Work with the Lead and Production teams to communicate risks, benefits, and future roadmaps
- Actively mentor the engineering team toward professional accreditation, such as AWS certification, and technical leadership Technologies:
- AI
- AWS
- Architect
- Azure
- Backend
- C#
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Docker
- Golang
- Support
- Java
- Kotlin
- Kubernetes
- NoSQL
- Project Manager
- Python
- React
- SQL
- Security
- Terraform
- Unity
- Unreal
- Web
- microservices
- NodeJS
- GameDev, We are The Multiplayer Group (MPG), and we create world-class multiplayer experiences through Co-Dev and Full-Dev partnerships. We have a people-first culture that supports a diverse, global team in a welcoming and flexible work environment, with teams spread worldwide and a strong focus on connection both online and in person. Giving back is central to who we are, with a commitment to local communities, education, and sustainability. This is a fully remote Principal Backend Engineer role for a UK or EU-based candidate working across game development projects. We offer flexible remote working, mental health and wellbeing support, private medical insurance, a strong pension and life cover, minimum 25 days holiday, a paid winter break, volunteering days, family-first parental leave policies, and an annual learning and development budget with expert talks, game jams, and mentoring opportunities.
We are looking for a highly experienced backend engineer based in the UK or EU - Experience in game development and shipping multiple live games or similar products with high concurrent user counts
- Proven experience architecting distributed applications with a high concurrent user base, ideally demonstrated by a released title or robust load tests
- Production experience with at least one of Java, Golang, C#, C++, or Kotlin; experience with Python, Node.js, and React is desirable
- Solid database experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases
- Proven experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure; AWS Professional certification is advantageous
- Proven experience building backend infrastructure using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
- Proven experience using Kubernetes and Docker to build products at scale
- Ability to autonomously architect and design online services based on a specification
- Ability to navigate change calmly and manage multiple pieces of potentially confidential information
- Excellent time management and ability to work autonomously
- Clear and effective communication skills, including the ability to discuss technical strategy with non-technical stakeholders and adapt to client needs
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch or improving existing client solutions
- Awareness of security and cheating implications of technology choices
- Experience using Gen AI for code generation
- Deep expertise in at least one relevant area of backend technology, such as DevOps, Microservices, or Cloud Architecture, is beneficial
- Understanding of how a backend service integrates with the game; experience with Unreal or Unity would be useful but not required
- Understanding of how to use LLMs to process and query structured and unstructured data is beneficial
Direct job link
https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/remote-principal-backend-engineer-worthing-127097671