SE II Backend Engineer (ENT)
SE II Backend Engineer (ENT)
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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
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
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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.
