Software Engineer - Backend Services
We are looking for a talented Software Engineer. You ll be working in a team of backend engineers across MPG. We deliver, deploy and help integrate backend services alongside external co-dev clients as part of industry leading game projects, and collaborate to define solutions and implement features on time and to a high standard.
We re also developing an internal tool used across MPG, as well as growing our pool of AWS Certified engineers - both of which you will be involved with when you join us.
Requirements
- Experience in game development and having worked on at least one game title in a commercial setting developing server backends for AAA games, free-to-play (mobile) games, casino apps or similar, with a large number of concurrent users
- Production experience with at least one of Java, Golang, C#, C++, Kotlin
- Experience with one or more cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure; having an AWS Certification (Associate or above) would be advantageous
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools, e.g. Terraform
- Strong database experience with both SQL and NoSQL
- Experience building distributed applications
- Experience with Git or Perforce, or other source control software
- Ability to adapt to new tools, languages, and concepts as required by the project
- Knowledge of Microservices and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), especially Kubernetes and Docker
- Have used or built a CI/CD pipeline to validate and test code
- An understanding of how to use LLMs to process and query structured and unstructured data
- Experience using Gen AI for code generation
- Ability to independently create supporting documentation, designs, comments, etc
- Excellent time management and ability to work independently
- Attention to detail with ability to comprehend and follow direction
- Clear communicator with the ability to verbalise conceptual thoughts and the willingness to accept constructive critique
Responsibilities
- Individual contribution: construct systems, write code, deployments, etc.
- Work with the team lead and stakeholders to estimate and prioritise work
- Work alongside peers to iterate on solutions that fit requirements
- Keep the project lead and producer apprised of revised estimates and delivery times
- Champion and maintain high standards and process: tests, CI/CD, documentation
- Help and support team members in day-to-day work
- Understand, maintain and expand existing code and develop new features or systems
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