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SE II Backend Engineer (ENT)

SE II Backend Engineer (ENT)

KEYWORDS STUDIOS
4-6 Years
Not Disclosed

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Job Description

Description

Role Summary

The Software Engineer II will:

  • Build scalable backend services and distributed systems
  • Design and build APIs for internal and external consumption
  • Improve system reliability and performance
  • Contribute to high-volume conversation processing systems
  • Collaborate across product, infrastructure, and engineering teams
Requirements:

Required Qualifications

  • 4+ years of medium/large scale server-side software development experience
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Thorough knowledge of CS fundamentals:
    • Data structures
    • Time complexity of algorithms
  • Knowledge of POSIX compliant Operating Systems (Mac OS X development and GNU/Linux deployment)
  • Comfortable using CLI tools for day-to-day tasks
  • Experience in writing:
    • Unit tests
    • Functional tests
    • Regression tests
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with distributed version control tools (Git)
  • Knowledge of functional programming (Clojure preferred)
  • Knowledge of the JVM
  • Experience working with one or more of:
    • MongoDB
    • Redis
    • Elasticsearch
    • Kafka
    • PostgreSQL
  • Experience with benchmarking systems for performance and failure detection
  • Knowledge of generative testing

More Info

Key Skills

distributed version control tools

POSIX compliant Operating Systems

GNU Linux deployment

Functional tests

server-side software development

benchmarking systems

Mac OS X development

generative testing

CLI tools

Regression tests

Unit tests

About Company

Keywords Studios plc is an Irish video game industry services company based in Leopardstown. Founded in 1998 by Giorgio Guastalla and Teresa Luppino, the company initially provided localisation services for business software before transitioning to the video game industry.