Job Title: Principal Server Engineer
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Server Engineer to join our team on a hybrid/remote basis. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a bold, unannounced, cross-platform Strategy/MMO title.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead the effort to optimize and refactor our backend services, focusing on improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.
* Work as part of a team responsible for overall backend performance.
* Mentor members of the team as well as backend software engineers on other teams on code optimization and performance improvements.
* Analyze and identify performance bottlenecks in the existing codebase as well as future implementations, and propose optimization strategies.
* Refactor and optimize internal code to improve efficiency, scalability, and maintainability.
* Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure cohesive and scalable backend architecture.
* Develop and enforce best practices for code quality, and emphasize performance and scalability in a distributed architecture.
* Conduct regular code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
* Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to continually enhance backend performance.
Requirements:
* Experience in developing highly available back-end systems and servers for large-scale MMO games, high-traffic web systems or applications.
* Expertise in backend engineering with a focus on performance optimization.
* Deep understanding of microservices architecture, cloud-native development, and container orchestration.
* Highly experienced with performance profiling, benchmarking, and optimisation techniques.
* Problem-solving skills and ability to lead complex projects.
* High leadership skills, with experience mentoring junior and peer engineers.
About Scopely:
At Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that. We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us and embark on this exciting journey.