// Open Role at Wildlife Studios
Join Wildlife Studios as a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and evolve critical in-game economy and live ops systems at scale. Lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and see your impact directly in high-throughput mobile games.
Every purchase, promotion, and reward inside a Wildlife game flows through the systems the In-Game Economy team builds. Every live game in the studio depends on us running smoothly.
You'll thrive here if you spot the risk before it becomes an incident, propose the fix, own it end to end, and leave the system in better shape than you found it. You'll lead concrete architectural decisions, make engineers around you better as a natural consequence of your technical work. You'll design and evolve the services and SDKs that power monetization across the whole studio, working directly for the game teams that ship them. The impact of your decisions is visible in the metrics and the product, immediately with measurable consequences in production, every day.
Our stack: Unity/C# on the client, Go on the backend, AWS and Kubernetes for infrastructure.
You've shipped backend systems under real load and real stakes, and you know the difference between a design that reads well on paper and one that survives production. You reach for the simplest solution that solves the problem, and you're comfortable making calls under uncertainty without waiting for perfect information. You take ownership of the outcomes of your work, not just the code, and you raise the bar for the people around you. You think in systems. You don’t need the perfect spec to start moving. And when something breaks in production, you’re already thinking about the fix.
Wildlife is one of the world's leading mobile game developers and publishers. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Here, we create games that excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come.
Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.
Solid experience designing and operating backend systems at scale: service decomposition, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures. Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and raise the bar for those around you. Strong hands-on skills in Go and comfort working in Node.js, or comparable languages. Practical experience with DynamoDB or another NoSQL store at scale, Kafka or another streaming platform, and Kubernetes-based deployments. Comfort operating in production: observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, distributed tracing), load testing, incident response. Working proficiency in English.