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Reading, England, United Kingdom•Elgin, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted 1 week ago
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full-time
Code Wizards
Job Summary
Join Code Wizards Group, a global leader in Game Tech, as a Senior Game Tech Engineer to build and operate scalable backend services for modern online games. This hybrid role offers the chance to apply your senior software engineering expertise in a dynamic, collaborative environment, contributing to cutting-edge game development.
About this job
Code Wizards Group is a global leader in Game Tech, building and running the systems behind modern online games. This Senior Game Tech Engineer role involves designing, building, and operating scalable backend services and distributed systems, contributing to architecture, and owning features end-to-end. The ideal candidate will apply their engineering expertise in the games industry, collaborating with internal and external teams in a hybrid work environment.
Requirements
- Significant commercial software engineering experience at a senior level
- Strong backend expertise across multiple languages (JavaScript / TypeScript / C# / .NET / C++ / Rust / Python / Golang)
- Proven track record building and running scalable, reliable systems in production
- Solid understanding of software architecture, APIs and distributed systems
- Strong experience with AWS (Serverless, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway/WebSockets) and modern tooling (Git, JIRA, DevOps)
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) as well as NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, DocumentDB, CosmosDB, Redis, etc.)
- Proactive, adaptable and collaborative mindset with a strong sense of ownership
- Exposure to Mobile SDK development and frontend experience with React or other modern JS frameworks
- Familiarity with Perforce in addition to Git
- Must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom
- Experience working within the Games Industry (desirable)
- Hands-on experience with game LiveOps platforms such as Nakama, Playfab, or custom game backend integrations (desirable)
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