We're looking for a hardworking and passionate Backend Engineer to join Wildlife's Engineering team.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature, and comfortable in a “take the initiative” environment, loves solving problems, and can thrive in a fast and growing business.

The Backend Team at Wildlife is reinventing itself. It started providing services for the games' online features and has since evolved to provide a platform that leverages the best of our teams when creating, operating and distributing our games.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and to achieve that, we work with a broad technology stack and have an approach of being fully responsible for our systems, from their conception to incident resolution and troubleshooting in production.

We own several services that, combined, serve more than 1 million requests per minute. We know this number will only grow, and we're looking for engineers that can help with the challenges of developing backend systems that perform well at a large scale.

What you’ll do

• Development of systems focusing on your customer, whether they are players or other Wildlife employees.
• Be part of a cross-functional team, directly contributing to feature development and maintenance.
• Partner with colleagues to build and maintain tooling for test development, automation, and release processes improvement.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent tech areas and/or equivalent experience.
• Solid experience in software development and solution design.
• Solid understanding of computer concepts (data structures, networking, concurrency, memory management, and algorithm analysis).
• Excellent knowledge of software testing concepts (testability, escape rate, regression, unit, integration, soak, stress, test automation).

Nice to have

• Experience developing and maintaining systems with a high volume of requests.
• Experience developing systems in the games industry.
• Experience developing systems in the ad tech ecosystem.
• Experience developing platform products.
• Business knowledge about the games industry.
• Experience in Golang.
• Experience in Unity development.

More about you

• You're passionate about software development and know how to ensure its quality.
• You're motivated by building up back-end services and are aware of its different architectures.
• Experienced working in an environment which uses and stimulates DevOps culture;
• You're creative when solving problems and are continuously seeking improvements for processes and solutions.
• You can communicate clearly with your team and the company to identify issues and demands.

About Wildlife

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Today, we have offices in Brazil, Finland and the United States. Here, we create games that will excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come!

Equal Opportunity

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, colour, 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.

We're committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.