Backend Team Lead
Job Summary
Job Description
Join Papaya, a fast-growing mobile game powerhouse, delivering fun to millions. We're seeking a Backend Engineer Team Lead to be a pioneering core team member, establishing a significant building block of our products and company. This role involves recruiting, leading, and growing a strong team of Backend engineers, delivering new game features, collaborating with other development teams, and taking full accountability for major features from specification to execution. You will also stay hands-on in code, design, and architecture.
Must have:
- Recruit, lead and grow a strong team of Backend engineers
- Deliver new game features and functionality for large-scale mobile games
- Collaborate with other development teams, product managers, UI\UX designers, and others
- Take full accountability for major features from specification and planning through execution & coding
- Stay hands-on in the code, design and architecture
- Use and teach the best engineering methodologies, high quality development, coding and designing skills
- Take a major part in our strategic growth of the R&D team
Good to have:
- Passion for people, technology, architecture, and quality
- Hunger and curiosity to always learn, understand and play with new technologies
- Mentor – love working with others to make everyone around you better
- Team player
- Track record of excellence and drive for results & problem-solving
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Job Details
Description
Get ready to join the action at Papaya, one of the world's fastest-growing mobile game powerhouses! We're all about delivering fun and excitement to millions of players across our diverse range of games. The company is HQ in the heart of Tel Aviv.
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer Team Lead eager to become one of our pioneering core team members and establish themselves as a significant building block of our products and company at this critical point in time before we reach greater heights.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, lead and grow a strong team of Backend engineers
- Deliver new game features and functionality for large-scale mobile games
- Collaborate with other development teams, product managers, UI\\UX designers, and others to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration
- Take full accountability for major features from specification and planning through execution & coding with multiple engineers
- Stay hands-on in the code, design and architecture
- Use and teach the best engineering methodologies, high quality development, coding and designing skills. The code is in Node.js (Backend) and C# (Unity, Frontend)
- Take a major part in our strategic growth of the R&D team - technology, process and professionally
Requirements
- Team leadership experience and working with cross-functional teams (2+ years)
- At least 7 years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Experience with backend development of real-time web services of a high-scale system
- Experience in working with cloud-based architectures and AWS specifically
- Familiarity with Node.js or C#
- An academic degree in a relevant technical field
- Excellent communication skills (both Verbal and written) in Hebrew and English
About you:
- Passion for people, technology, architecture, and quality
- Hunger and curiosity to always learn, understand and play with new technologies
- Mentor – love working with others to make everyone around you better
- Team player
- Track record of excellence and drive for results & problem-solving
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About The Company
Since 2019, Papaya has been committed to shaping the future of gaming through an innovative and forward-thinking approach to game development. We believe that gaming should be about more than just luck, which is why our games are designed to reward skill, strategy, and perseverance. Our primary focus is transforming single-player games into rewarding, multi-player skill-based tournaments. Whether it's our users or employees, we challenge everyone to take risks, try new things, and push themselves to new heights of achievement.
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