Senior Backend Engineer

You will enjoy here a fresh and dynamic team where your ideas will be equally valued as your programming expertise.

Here at Amber, we are self-empowered, entrepreneurial business partners. We love working collectively and helping each other achieve greatness through our games. We constantly learn and improve ourselves because we aim high: we want to be the best. If you share our vision,  join us!

About the role

As a Back-end Engineer, you will be working in cross-functional teams to design and implement high-performance back-end solutions for our awesome games.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our DevOps team to define back-end strategy and architecture for our games
• Create and implement back-end deployment strategies
• Develop and maintain back-end solutions for high number of concurrent users and fast response times
• Actively participate in sprint planning meetings
• Ensure that all relevant parties are aligned on task specifications
• Constantly communicate with your teammates to flag and alleviate risks
• Help the team improve the game quality by eliminating waste from the development process
• Design, develop, deploy and monitor backend features and APIs for our games
• Create and maintain CI automated tests for the back-end solution
• Document system specifications

Requirements

• 3+ years of back-end architectural design and development experience
• Proficient with scalable server-side programming (concurrency / synchronization and distributed systems).
• Deep knowledge of database design and optimization.
• Strong knowledge of at least one cloud computing services like AWS, Azure or similar.
• Strong practical knowledge of current server technologies like REST, SOAP or similar.
• Strong knowledge of at least one mainstream server programming language like  Python, C#, Java or NodeJS.

Nice to have

• Experience with development on mobile platforms and for a high number of concurrent users
• Practical experience with the lifecycle of a user query, from request to an API endpoint, up to updating cold storages reliably and consistently
• Experience in collaborating with client-side engineers and implementing full-stack features (backend to client, end-to-end)
• Experience using Automated Test framework
• Experience with container management tools like Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with infrastructure automation tolls like Terraform

Personality

• Team player
• Eager to develop yourself
• Passionate about back-end optimization and server quality
• Eager to explore new technologies

Our offer

• An open environment where you can make a difference and you can own your decisions
• The opportunity to grow and succeed together
• Support from all your teammates