Senior Backend Developer (Python)

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Backend Developer (Python) at Game Analytics, you'll be a key contributor to the development of critical APIs handling authentication, authorization, and business logic. You will work with a modern stack (Python 3, MySQL, Terraform, ECS/Fargate) in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP). Responsibilities include planning, designing, and developing new and existing product offerings, managing AWS resources, ensuring high code quality through code reviews, collaborating with other teams, understanding business processes and data governance, and contributing to team growth through training and hiring. This remote role requires strong Python skills and experience with API development and production systems.
Must have:
  • Excellent Python/Backend exp.
  • API development expertise
  • 3+ years production system exp.
  • SQL & RDBMS knowledge
  • High-quality code & testing
  • AWS cloud experience
Good to have:
  • FastAPI/Flask knowledge
  • SQLAlchemy or ORM exp.
  • Terraform/Ansible exp.
  • Docker/Kubernetes exp.
  • OAuth2 experience
  • Project management skills
Perks:
  • Working flexibility
  • Food, snacks & drinks
  • 25 days paid holiday
  • Year-end office closure
  • Company sickness leave
  • Carers’ leave
  • Additional compassionate leave
  • Work-from-Anywhere Scheme
  • Learning budgets
  • Monthly social nights
  • Expense phone bill

Job Details

Description

About Game Analytics

GameAnalytics is a leading analytics tool for anyone building a mobile game. Our platform helps everyone in the industry, from indie developers, to growing games studios, to global publishers. Our network includes more than 100k games, which are played by north of 2 billion people each month. That’s more than ⅓ of the world’s mobile gamers. What’s our mission? To help game developers make the right decisions based on data. And by joining our team, you’ll be working on new and innovative products to help tens of thousands of people in the industry do just that.

About the team

You will join our backend API development team as a remote member outside of Denmark, where our head office is based. Together you’ll be working on some of our most critical APIs handling authentication, authorisation and the business logic for all our users, studios & games, providing the backbone that powers our web application. We work using a modern development stack (Python 3, MySQL, Terraform, ECS/Fargate), use cloud technologies (AWS, GCP) and we value simplicity, code quality, automation; with the aim of iterating fast and delivering value. We have major new product offerings in development and the team will be involved in all areas of planning, designing and development.

What we are looking for

  • As an experienced developer you will be a key contributor involved in planning, designing and developing current and new product offerings.
  • Making sure we build the right thing at the right time. We value the ability to make reasonable and informed decisions with minimal supervision.
  • Be able to take ownership (together with the other team members) of several APIs (currently based on Python), our main user management database or any future production critical systems.
  • Managing AWS resources and deployment procedures in collaboration with our other engineering teams.
  • Keeping code quality high using code reviews (pull requests) and documented coding standards.
  • Ability to collaborate and communicate well with other teams, including product and support.
  • Understanding of business processes and data governance implications, when working with customer accounts.
  • Train, coach and support hiring of team members.

Requirements

Essential:

  • Excellent understanding of Python OR an excellent understanding of another backend related language (Java, Erlang, Elixir, Golang, Ruby…) AND some Python experience.
  • Excellent understanding of API development; including best practices, industry standards, performance implications…
  • 3+ years of experience building and managing production systems.
  • Experience with SQL and RDBMS concepts, using these on large projects, preferably using MySQL or PostgreSQL
  • Ability to write high quality and maintainable code, only embracing complexity when truly needed. Approach coding so that others can read and work with your code.
  • Experience with modern development life cycle, including automated testing and deployment.
  • Excellent communication and team collaboration skills
  • Experience with developing software in a cloud environment, preferably in AWS.

Desirable:

  • A degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Good knowledge of FastAPI, Flask or other Python API frameworks
  • Knowledge of SQLAlchemy or other ORM frameworks
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code systems (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
  • Experience with containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/Fargate or similar)
  • Comfortable working in a Linux environment
  • Experience with, or interest in, other programming languages besides Python
  • Experience with authentication/authorization protocols, such as OAuth2
  • An interest in project management and software development methodologies
  • Passion in videogames and the industry

Benefits

  • Working flexibility
  • (When in office) Food, snacks and drinks
  • 25 Days paid holiday (excluding bank holiday)
  • Year-end office closure (paid holiday downtime between Christmas and New Year's)
  • Company sickness leave
  • Carers’ leave
  • Additional compassionate leave
  • “Work-from-Anywhere” Scheme (15 days per year)
  • Learning budgets
  • Monthly social nights
  • Expense phone bill

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GameAnalytics is a SaaS platform specializing in Business Intelligence and Analytics. We hold certifications for SOC2 Type II and ISO27001 standards.

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