Senior Backend Engineer
Core
Design and operate scalable backend systems for in-game economy, monetization, and player journeys across mobile games.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (In-Game Economy)
Builds
Production services and SDKs for purchases, offers, and player progression.
Domain
Mobile Gaming / In-Game Economy
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, system design at scale, event-driven architectures, NoSQL (DynamoDB), streaming (Kafka), Kubernetes, observability, incident response
Preferred skills
Mobile in-app purchase ecosystems (StoreKit, Play Billing), SDK development (C#), native mobile dev (Kotlin/Swift), Dart/TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, gRPC
Technologies
Go, Unity/C#, AWS, Kubernetes, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, gRPC, Datadog, Prometheus
Responsibilities
Own significant parts of the In-Game Economy stack including purchases and SDKs; Lead design and implementation of complex features; Investigate and resolve production incidents; Improve reliability and cost of services; Partner with game teams to unblock integrations; Mentor engineers through code review and pairing; Share on-call rotation.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
