Principal Backend Engineer - MPG - Fully remote from the UK or the EU

- Experience in game development and having shipped multiple live games (or similar products) with a high concurrent user count - Proven experience architecting distributed applications with a high concurrent user base (hundreds of thousands), ideally proven with a released title or robust load tests - Production experience with at least one of Java, Golang, C#, C++, Kotlin; experience with Python, Node.js and React is desirable - Solid database experience, with the ability to work effectively with both SQL and NoSQL databases - Proven experience with cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure; having an AWS Certification (Professional level) would be advantageous - Proven experience building backend infrastructure using infrastructure as code tools, e.g. Terraform - Proven experience using Kubernetes and Docker to build products at scale - Ability to autonomously architect and design online services based on a specification - Ability to navigate changes calmly and manage multiple pieces of potentially confidential information - Excellent time management and ability to work autonomously - Clear and effective communicator with the ability to discuss technical strategy with non-technical stakeholders and adapt to client needs - Experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch or improving existing client solutions - Awareness of security/cheating implications of technology choices - Experience using Gen AI for code generation - Deep expertise in at least one relevant area of backend technology, e.g. DevOps, Microservices, Cloud Architecture (Beneficial) - Understanding of how a backend service integrates with the game - experience with Unreal or Unity would be useful but not required (Beneficial) - An understanding of how to use LLMs to process and query structured and unstructured data (Beneficial)