Senior Server Developer

1 Month ago • All levels • Network Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Server Developer, you will own and architect online systems for mobile games, delivering fun to millions. You'll design and implement scalable backend features like tournaments and leaderboards, ensuring optimal performance. This role involves maintaining existing features, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and building a world-class network development team. You should be passionate about high-scale backend solutions and network programming, with a desire for personal growth.
Must have:
  • Own online systems that power games for millions of users.
  • Design and architect new backend features at massive scale.
  • Implement new online gameplay features like tournaments, leaderboards, and clans.
  • Maintain and improve existing features, optimizing performance, scalability, and quality.
  • Collaborate with multiple departments across the studio.
  • Establish foundations and build a world-class network development team.
Good to have:
  • Experience working with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Experience working with Unity game engine as a frontend
  • Experience with .Net Core
  • Experience administrating Linux-based servers
  • Experience developing web-based frontends
Perks:
  • Competitive salary and regular performance reviews
  • Diverse career growth opportunities
  • Chance to make a real impact on the company’s core product
  • Work in a comfortable and modern office in Bucharest
  • Best Happy Hours and team-building events
  • Friend Referral Program
  • Relocation bonus

Job Details

What will you do?

  • Own the online systems that power our games, delivering fun to millions of users.
  • Design and architect new backend features that operate at a massive scale.
  • Implement new online gameplay features, such as tournaments, leaderboards, and clans, working end-to-end to ensure the best player experience possible.
  • Maintain and improve existing features, optimizing performance, scalability, and quality from the game feature level to the protocol level.
  • Collaborate with multiple departments across the studio—gameplay, design, economy, and analysis—to deliver the best backend solutions for their needs.
  • Establish the foundations and, over time, build a world-class network development team within the studio.

Who are you?

  • A talented game developer with experience in network programming, both at a low level and on a system level.
  • Passionate about building high-scale backend solutions that serve millions of players, process vast amounts of data, and empower social interactions on a global scale.
  • A team player who enjoys working across disciplines, with a strong desire for challenge and personal growth, and the motivation and patience to grow with us and build leading network capabilities.

Requirements

  • Passion for game development and network programming.
  • Experience developing game backend/server solutions.
  • Experience working on multi-threaded systems.
  • Experience in SQL, DDL, query planning, and general database architecture.
  • Experience working with microservices architecture.
  • A creative problem solver, able to quickly learn and utilize unfamiliar concepts.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team.

Advantage:

  • Experience working with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience working with Unity game engine as a frontend.
  • Experience with .Net Core.
  • Experience administrating Linux-based servers.
  • Experience developing web-based frontends.

Benefits for our SuperPlayers:

  • Be part of one of the fastest-growing product company, with a competitive salary and regular performance reviews.
  • Enjoy diverse career growth opportunities.
  • Have the chance to make a real impact on the company’s core product.
  • Work in a comfortable and modern office located in the center of Bucharest, just a 5-minute walk from University metro station.
  • Experience the best Happy Hours and team-building events.
  • Join our Friend Referral Program that allows us to grow our cool community of creators and gamers.
  • Relocation bonus.

Come join the fun!

At SuperPlay, creativity and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do, and we’re always pushing boundaries to create something amazing. We solve challenges as a team, break records together, and have fun while doing it.

Are you ready to be part of the journey? Apply now and join the game with us!🎮

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Founded in 2019 by gaming industry veterans from Playtika, Rovio, PlayStudios and the film industry, we set out to create a billion-dollar company that delivers world-class, delightful games and has fun making them. We gathered a core team and soft launched our first title, Dice Dreams, within 6 months. Since then, the team has grown to include dozens of super-talented, dedicated and driven individuals, Dice Dreams has become a global hit, and our plans for the future make us even more excited.

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