Senior Software Developer

22 Hours ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Developer at Miniclip, your responsibilities will include designing, developing, maintaining, and operating robust and scalable back-end systems using in-house technology. You'll identify and implement the best solutions and tools to address technological challenges, and manage migrations of legacy systems. You'll also participate in team activities to develop new concepts for game modes, promotional campaigns, and in-game content. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary agile Scrum development team. You will proactively support the development of new features and resolve bugs and limitations within internal systems. The ideal candidate is social, humble, hardworking, autonomous, self-motivated, dedicated, result-oriented, and accountable.
Must have:
  • Prior professional experience in software development for networked back-end.
  • Experience in managing nginx + php-fpm workloads.
  • Experience with requirements analysis and dimensioning.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills through analytical approaches.
  • A strong curiosity and commitment to continuous learning.
  • Proficiency in both written and spoken English.
Good to have:
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure design and operation.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with dependency management systems for PHP.
  • Experience with caching engines.

Job Details

What will you be doing at Miniclip?

Your work will include:

  • Designing, developing, maintaining, and operating robust and scalable back-end systems by using, extending, and improving existing in-house technology
  • Finding the best solutions to implement, and tools to adopt, for the technological challenges the systems and processes face
  • Experience in managing migrations of legacy systems
  • Participating in team activities to develop new concepts for game modes, promotional campaigns, temporary events, and in-game content
  • Working together with a multi-disciplinary and highly motivated agile Scrum development team, including backend and client developers, quality assurance testers, release managers, and others
  • Proactively addressing opportunities and needs by supporting the development of new features and resolving bugs and limitations within internal systems

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a social, humble, hard-working, and autonomous person, thus we need you to be self-motivated, dedicated, result-oriented, and accountable for the areas of your responsibilities. You must be a team player who actively seeks opportunities for self-development, takes pride in your work, and engages with the team to improve together:

  • Prior professional experience in software development for a networked back-end/server on a UNIX/Linux/POSIX environment, using programming languages such as C, C++, Golang, Erlang, Elixir, PHP or Hack
  • Experience in managing nginx + php-fpm workloads, at high capacity
  • Experience with requirements analysis and dimensioning
  • Excellent problem-solving skills through analytical, systematical, or intuitive approaches
  • A strong curiosity and commitment to continuously learning new skills, exploring innovative approaches, and enhancing product and code quality
  • Proficiency in both written and spoken English

The following skills are desirable but not essential (if you have them, don’t forget to mention them):

  • Experience with cloud infrastructure design and operation
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with dependency management systems for PHP
  • Experience with caching engines

Don't forget to share with us all of your relevant training and certifications.

About Miniclip

Miniclip is a global leader in games and one of the world's biggest developers and publishers of mobile games, with a mission of unleashing the gamer in everyone. It distributes highly engaging games to a global audience of over 450 million monthly and 70 million daily active users across mobile, PC, console, social, and online platforms. Operating in 15 countries, Miniclip develops and launches games in multiple categories across its 22 studios.

Founded in 2001 with an internationally recognised brand name, Miniclip has successfully grown a global audience across 195 countries and six continents. It has a unique understanding of the games space, developing and distributing a strong portfolio of over 60 high-quality mobile games globally.

To date, Miniclip’s studios and companies have generated more than 10.5 billion downloads, including the following games: 8 Ball Pool, Subway Surfers, Golf Battle, Football Strike, Carrom Pool, OSM - Online Soccer Manager™, Football Rivals , Pure Sniper , Puzzle Page™, Head Ball 2, Motorsport Manager, Darts of Fury, Ultimate Golf, Mini Football, Triple Match 3D™, Agar.io, PowerWash Simulator, Sudoku.com™, and We Are Warriors™.

For more information, visit https://miniclip.com/

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About The Company

Miniclip is a global leader in digital games with a mission of ‘unleashing the gamer in everyone’. We develop, publish, and distribute highly engaging games to an audience of over 400 million monthly active users across mobile, social and online platforms. We operate in 10 countries, with a global workforce of over 1000 people across 16 locations.

Founded in 2001, the Company has successfully grown a huge global audience in over 195 countries and across six continents. We have a unique understanding of the digital games space and have developed a strong portfolio of over 60 high-quality mobile games, extensive worldwide distribution, and an internationally recognised brand name. To date, Miniclip's digital games, which also include the franchises 8 Ball Pool™, Subway Surfers™, Golf Battle™, Football Strike™, Carrom Pool™, and Agar.io™ have generated more than 7 billion downloads. Miniclip has more than 70 million daily active players reaching people across the world in the pursuit of ‘unleashing the gamer in everyone’.

In the past three years, as part of our ambitious growth plans, Miniclip has been delighted to welcome the teams from Playsport (famous for Motorsport Manager), Yakuto (creators of Darts of Fury), Masomo (home of Head Ball 2), Ilyon (designers of Bubble Shooter), Eight Pixels Square (Sniper Strike) operating as Miniclip Derby, Gamebasics (creators of OSM Online Soccer Manager) now operating as Miniclip Netherlands, Green Horse Games (home of Football Rivals), Supersonic Software Ltd., trading as Puzzling.com (the team behind the highly successful Puzzle Page and Picture Cross), and most recently Sybo (famous for Subway Surfers).

For more information, visit https://miniclip.com/

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