Backend Engineer

Are you an experienced Backend Developer with expertise in online game infrastructure, server optimisation and scalable systems?

Join a game development studio where you’ll play a key role in ensuring the stability, performance and scalability of online game services. You will work at the intersection of backend systems and infrastructure, helping deliver reliable persistent worlds that support thousands of concurrent players.

About the role You will be responsible for both backend development and infrastructure operations, ensuring smooth game performance and high availability across production environments. This includes building internal monitoring tools, maintaining server systems and supporting optimisation efforts. You will also contribute to web and front-end tools used internally and externally, making this a versatile engineering role.

What you’ll do

• Design and develop internal monitoring tools to track server health in real time
• Operate and maintain production servers including web, database and matchmaking systems
• Optimise backend services for performance across CPU, memory and bandwidth usage
• Collaborate with game teams to implement metrics and improve server performance
• Build and maintain web interfaces for internal tools and external services
• Develop responsive and user-friendly front-end solutions for tools and dashboards
• Support infrastructure reliability and scalability across online game environments

• 6+ years of professional development experience
• At least 3 years in the video game industry or similar real-time environments
• Experience managing online game servers or large-scale backend systems

Skills

• Strong software development skills in one or more languages
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks
• Strong understanding of Linux environments and command-line tools
• Solid database knowledge (SQL and/or NoSQL), including optimisation and maintenance
• Understanding of cloud concepts such as scalability, networking and virtualization
• Ability to design and maintain reliable, scalable backend systems

Nice to have

• Experience building internal developer tools or monitoring solutions
• Familiarity with multiple cloud platforms
• Background in live-service or multiplayer game environments

Working style / behaviours

• Autonomous and able to prioritise work in dynamic environments
• Versatile and adaptable across backend, infrastructure and tooling tasks
• Strong team player working across technical and non-technical teams
• Passionate about video games and online systems, Years of experience and salary levels are shown purely as a guide. We will only consider applications from candidates that can demonstrate the skills or experience required for the role.