Backend Programmer

6 Months ago • 2-5 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Join Metacore Games, a mobile game company with over 55 million players, as a Backend Programmer to develop and maintain game backend functionality using C# and .NET technologies. You'll collaborate with experts, ensure backend stability and scalability, and work on a live game with its unique challenges. Strong communication and collaboration skills are essential.
Must have:
  • C# .NET
  • SQL Databases
  • Server Architectures
  • External Services
Good to have:
  • Vue.js
  • REST APIs
  • AWS Services
  • Performance Testing
Perks:
  • Hybrid Workplace
  • Professional Development

Job Details

We are a mobile game company, based in both Helsinki and Berlin, creating world-class entertainment by building a portfolio of hit games. Since our launch in 2020, our first chart-topping game Merge Mansion has been entertaining over 55 million players worldwide, and we have grown into a team of over 200.

Our mission is to entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades, with our games, and also through our creative marketing, community, and beyond – while having fun with it. 

We’re ordinary people crafting extraordinary games with passion and ambition, united by our culture of trust, psychological safety and wellbeing.

We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Programmer to make our game more efficient, secure, reliable, and scalable. You'll be joining the Backend Tech Team, collaborating with experts in programming, data, infrastructure, and player experience to extend and implement services and applications. Working on a live game comes with unique challenges—your code will interact with millions of players, and you'll need to respond quickly to live issues, requiring creativity, attention to detail, and adaptability. This role values strong communication and collaboration, which are essential for building trust and working well with the team.

More about Metacore crafts: https://metacoregames.com/our-crafts 

Responsibilities

  • Designing, implementing, and testing game backend functionality for a single mobile game using C# and latest Microsoft .NET technologies
  • Driving feature implementation from design to deployment and monitoring
  • Ensuring game backends are stable, secure, efficient, and scalable
  • Integrating external services with game servers
  • Collaborating with the backend technology provider
  • Supporting other programmers and developers in their requests for tooling and features
  • Participating in on-call rotation for live monitoring and troubleshooting with various stakeholders
  • Working on a live game with its particular challenges, including rigorous testing, migrations, monitoring, and maintenance

Requirements

  • Experience writing quality code, especially in C# using .NET framework
  • Proficient in working with databases, especially SQL
  • Good understanding of stateful and stateless server architectures
  • Ability to work with frontend technologies, including Vue and REST APIs
  • Skills in integrating external services or third-party APIs with existing backend systems
  • Expertise in building and operating scalable applications for a large number of simultaneous users
  • Proficiency with cloud services such as AWS
  • Experience in conducting performance testing and working with monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki

What We Offer

  • Workplace where we aim high, without taking ourselves too seriously
  • Autonomy and accountability with support to foster professional development
  • Great opportunities to grow with the company
  • Work-life balance and strong emphasis on wellbeing
  • Approachable leaders with low ego
  • Flexible hybrid workplace where people enjoy working at the office

Basics

  • Location: Helsinki, Finland
  • Relocation: Relocating to Finland expected, full support provided
  • Work model: Mix of office and remote work
  • Working language: English

Our equal opportunity statement

To entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades, we need diverse teams that understand our diverse audiences. The key to unleash our creativity is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture of trust where Metacoreans from all walks of life can be themselves. We celebrate our differences and believe they are the strength that drives us forward.

We are committed to offering equal opportunities for all, regardless of background, age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, family status, education, socioeconomic status or any other characteristic. We build and maintain a workplace and industry free of harassment and discrimination.

We also aspire to have DE&I as a fundamental part of our game design process to enable us to create even better and more inclusive games, communities and entertainment.

If you require any support or have specific needs during the application process, please don't hesitate to let us know. We look forward to hearing from you!

 

Our culture

Our culture is based on trust, psychological safety and wellbeing. At Metacore, autonomy and accountability go firmly hand in hand, and we cultivate a diverse and inclusive workplace where you can be yourself.

We are collaborative and humble, and think “we” before “me”. We enable focus through transparency and ownership. We aim high, and aspire to be nothing less than the best game company in the world to work for.

To create even better games, communities and entertainment, we welcome talent with diverse experiences, who are passionate about their roles and bold in their ambition. 

We have collectively defined our culture and values, and we uphold them together, every day.

Read more about our culture: https://metacoregames.com/culture

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