Scopely is looking for a Senior Server/Backend Engineer to join our Monopoly GO! game team remotely. Our team has members in the UK, Spain, Portugal, and the US.
At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day—whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing, and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
Monopoly GO! is our new casual game and a key franchise that has already become one of Scopely’s largest games, with over 10M DAU. The team is based in Europe and the US, and works every day to create captivating new experiences for our players.
The team
We are growing our cross-functional team focused on web platforms. You will be collaborating with infrastructure engineers, data engineers, product managers and tech leadership on our mission of making the game safer and fair.
Our tech stack
- A Unity mobile game with a .NET/C# back-end
- Heavy use of AWS on our infrastructure (EC2, Memcache, Dynamo, Redis, ElasticSearch...)
- CI/CD pipeline, including GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Spinakler and other products
- Monitoring: Datadog, Bugsnag, Kibana (OpenSearch), AWS console....
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of professional software development experience (or equivalent)
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (C#, Java, Go, C++, etc.). Willingness to learn C#/.NET if not already experienced.
- Fundamental understanding of Unity or similar game engines.
- Experience or familiarity with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and services such as DynamoDB, Redis, and EC2.
- Good understanding of fundamentals on distributed system (concurrently, latency, etc)
- Comfort collaborating with data engineers/scientists in designing data-driven solutions.
- Experience collaborating with other disciplines (game design, product), in particular, understanding and writing documentation.
- Willingness to learn and change areas of the system outside your comfort zone if needed (like native mobile code or new AWS services)
- An interest in cybersecurity, game integrity, and anti-cheat systems
Why join us
- Opportunity to create a significant impact in our largest game.
- The challenge of working on a +10M DAU scale product
- Our team offers exposure to this project's wide range of tech, including front-end, Mobile, Server, and infrastructure
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as "MONOPOLY GO!," “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “Stumble Guys,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” and “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others.
Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience across multiple platforms--from mobile, web, PC and beyond.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry.
Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.
Scopely has global operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia, EMEA, and North America, and is home to many internal game development teams, referred to as Scopely Studios, with additional game studio partners across four continents.
Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy.
For more information on Scopely, visit: scopely.com
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Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences based on both original and licensed IP, including “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “Scrabble® GO,” “WWE Champions," “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and "Stumble Guys," among others.
Scopely creates, publishes and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the mobile games industry.
Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s "World’s Most Innovative Companies" and Built In's "Best Places to Work," Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.
Scopely has global operations in Bangalore, Barcelona, Boulder, Dublin, London, Los Angeles, Sevilla, Shanghai, Singapore, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and more!
Scopely is home to many internal game development teams, or Scopely Studios, including: Boundless Entertainment, DIGIT, Genjoy, Hijump, Omnidrone and Parallel, among others, with additional studio partners in seven countries across four continents.
For more information, visit scopely.com.
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