Senior Backend Developer

SENIOR BACKEND DEVELOPER

About us:

We are a super-indie studio that develops and publishes free-to-play games. Our singular goal is to build mobile games that people love to play. Based in India, we take pride in creating some of the nation's most-popular games like Dhoom:3 The Game, Sultan: The Game; and global cooking sensation, Star Chef.

We have published 22 game titles and clocked over 100 million downloads globally. Thanks to our ability to understand gamer psychology, our focus lies in building games where players across the world find others with shared interests and play together for years. With a highly experienced and stable management team working collaboratively for over 15 years, we are considered a thought leader in the Indian gaming industry.

Role and Responsibilities:

In this role, you will be working to evolve and maintain our API, data processing pipelines, and other backend systems.

●    Are great communicators because effective communication is key to how we work.

●   Work well both collaboratively and independently – you will be mentoring a team of backend developers and will also pitch and create complete coding solutions.

●     Are ready to learn and share knowledge, as everyone joins us with their own set of skills and experiences. What we all share is a passion for games, curiosity, and staying current on industry trends which helps in cross-training, code review, and mentorship that helps us build better games.

●     Will be involved in all areas of backend development, including World Class Database Architecture & Design in NoSQL Database Planning, Implementation, Deployment & Maintenance (Logic, Network, and Database Design) of our online services.

●       Work with a multitude of cloud services and know the trade-offs of each.

●       Ensure that our systems are built to scale and are secure.

●       Identify and drive improvements in the technology base and development processes.

●       Create lightweight systems documentation and tools.

●       Work closely with game teams to define data to be collected from our games for analysis.

Requirements:

As one of India's pioneers in mobile gaming, we'd love that you share the same passion for gaming as us. Apart from that, we expect you to have:

● 3+ years of backend experience in database design, developing web services and server-side applications using JavaScript, PHP for the backend

● Experience in technologies like MongoDB, NoSQL databases, ExpressJS, NodeJS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Angular/React.

● Exceptional skills in Performance Optimizations, Scaling the Server, and debugging source code management systems (e.g., Git, Subversion)

●       Experience in working & deploying apps on the cloud such as AWS, Google Cloud

●       Experience in implementing security and data protection

●       Working knowledge of Caching Databases (like Memcached/REDIS)

●       Knowledge of open source frameworks and cloud-based services

●       Experience in working on social games is a strong bonus

●       Engineering Degree in Computer Science or IT / MCA background

●       Experience with live systems involving mobile apps will score you massive brownie points