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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Java Backend & DevOps Engineer - Agentic Engineering - **Company:** Goodgame Studios - **Location:** Hamburg, Germany (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Java Development Kit, Java Web Services, MySQL, Octopus Deploy, Performance Tuning, Redis, Sql Optimization, Multi-Agent Systems, Concurrency, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Docker - **Published:** July 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5734302228 ## About the Role * 6+ years backend Java, expert level. Distributed systems, concurrency, GC tuning, SQL optimisation are second nature. * Deep AWS and cloud-native stack (K8s, Docker, Terraform). * A real agentic coding practice. You can talk concretely about: how you structure prompts and context for long-running tasks, when you let an agent run autonomously vs. when you intervene, how you manage multi-agent setups, what you've built with MCP / custom tools / skills, and how you review agent-generated code without becoming a bottleneck. * Strong analytical decomposition - the ability to turn fuzzy product asks into precise constraints both humans and agents can execute against. * Architectural judgement. You design clean, resilient systems; you don't just accept whatever the agent produces. * Highly proficient in English. * Seeking full-time remote roles (within Germany, valid German visa required) or Freelance opportunities within the German timezone (CET/CEST). Nice to have * Gaming backend experience (matchmaking, inventories, leaderboards, economy services). * Event-driven architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS/SNS). * Real-time telemetry or anti-cheat systems. * Published or shared work on agentic workflows - blog posts, OSS subagents/skills, internal tooling you've open-sourced. ## Description You own backend services end-to-end: architecture, implementation, infrastructure, deployment, production, scaling. The difference from a traditional senior role is leverage - you're expected to operate at 10-20× the throughput of a classical engineer by orchestrating agents rather than typing every line yourself. You stay the architect and the reviewer. The agents do the volume., * Design and operate high-throughput, low-latency Java services (JDK 17+) on AWS, K8s, Terraform, ArgoCD. * Build resilient distributed components and tune memory, concurrency, and GC for real production workloads. * Architect MySQL and Redis layers handling millions of player rows. * Own CI/CD, observability, and on-call for systems you ship. * Run an agentic workflow that holds up under code review: precise specs, tight feedback loops, generated tests, validation gates, your judgement as the final filter on architecture, security, and performance. * Help define how the rest of the engineering org adopts agentic practices - tooling, review standards, what "done" means when an agent wrote 80% of the diff., * You'll work on systems players interact with every minute, at a scale where engineering decisions show up immediately in metrics. * You'll help set the bar for what agentic engineering looks like in a 30+ person backend org that ships real products - not a lab, not a pilot. * High autonomy. Remote within the German time zone. Engineering-first culture. * Genuinely interesting technical surface area: Java, MySQL, Redis, AWS, distributed systems, plus the meta-problem of how to run all of it agentically without sacrificing reliability. ## Related Videos - [Supercharge Agentic AI Apps: A DevEx-Driven Approach to Cloud-Native Scaffolding](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1604-supercharge-agentic-ai-apps-a-devex-driven-approach-to-cloud-native-scaffolding) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [When Should You Use an Agent? 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