BackEnd Engineer for Massive-Scale Mobile Game
Intro & Candidate Profile
SYBO Games is the developer and IP holder or the smash-hit Subway Surfers. We're looking for a savvy backend engineer to join our team. You will be part of both designing, developing and managing a robust cloud software solution for our upcoming game. To give you an idea of the scale we expect: Subway Surfers currently serves 25M DAUs with an average of 4k transactions per second.
General Responsibilities
- be part of designing and developing the backend for our upcoming game, written in Google Go with an Apache Cassandra database, with a focus on cross-device player account synchronization, social features and cheat protection
- design the API to support the Unity3D client specific game features
- manage and scale the infrastructure of the live game
Requirements
- 3+ years field experience as backend engineer/programmer
- self-starter, results oriented and OCD-level of attention to detail
- English fluency
Major Pluses
- experience with massive loads: thousands requests / second, millions of users
- experience with a popular mobile/social game or within an established, successful game studio
- experience with Google Go, C++, Java, C# and Unity3D
- experience with both SQL and NoSQL especially MySQL and Apache Cassandra
- experience with scripting languages (php, perl, bash, etc)
- experience with RESTful web services and web technologies in general (https, websockets, etc)
- experience with an IaaS cloud providers (AWS, RackSpace, etc)
- experience with iOS/Android APIs and services: push messaging, in-app purchase, identity providers: FB Open Graph, GameCenter, etc
- experience with agile development (SCRUM/Kanban), versioning and stress testing
- commitment to delivering a 99,(9)% amazing player experience and heroically solving any live issues
- staying up to date with latest tech trends and constantly seeking to improve the quality of all your projects
Your Benefits
- working in a young, successful company that built Subway Surfers - the highest rated Android app and also one of the games with the highest retention rates on the Planet
- working within a small team of passionate, creative, highly-skilled professionals
- working in a cool office downtown Copenhagen, with daily catered lunches
- attractive salary and long term career opportunity
The Bits
- full time employment position, on-site starting ASAP
- to apply, please send an email to jobs@sybogames.com with:
- subject line starting with "Job Application for BackEnd Engineer";
- your CV attached (preferably in a EU format);
- portfolio and/or references in the appendix of the CV;
- a short motivation on why your are the best candidate to join the team, in the email body
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