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# Senior Backend Engineer

- **Company:** LOWERY LAWANA
- **Location:** Prague, OK, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Data Analysis, Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Code Generation, Computer Programming, Databases, Software Debugging, Programming Tools, Identity and Access Management, Subnetting, Python (Programming Language), Enterprise Messaging Systems, Microsoft Message Queuing, Windows Servers, MySQL, Network Architecture, RabbitMQ, Redis, Traffic Analysis, Trusted Systems, Web Application Frameworks, Datadog, Load Balancing, GitHub Copilot, Flask (Web Framework), Claude Code, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Backend, Fastapi, Amazon Relational Database Service, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Low Latency, Kibana, Restful APIs, Terraform, Software Version Control, Docker
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/ptsu7m687l

## About the Role

* Highly experienced in being part of a professional development team or other relevant area
 * Experience in developing highly available back-end systems and servers for large-scale MMO games, high-traffic web systems or applications
 * Experienced with Python and its ecosystem (libraries, frameworks, etc.), familiarity with web frameworks such as Flask, Tornado, FastAPI, or another similar web framework and Python threading, as well as the principles of async programming
 * Familiar in design and implementation of highly-scalable, reliable, and secure systems using Redis and its ecosystem, such as Redislabs. Solid understanding of RESTful API design and development
 * Ability to write efficient low-latency, low-IO code
 * Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems and Docker containers, as well as Redis, MySQL (or similar database systems)
 * Good understanding of how to prevent intrusions, injections, cheating etc.
 * Experience in version control, especially multi-track development and familiarity with deployments methodologies and CI/CD pipelines
 * Experience with automated testing
 * Experience with stateful and stateless game server architectures
 * Hands-on experience working with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Codex, Claude Code) and an understanding of how agentic workflows can augment engineering productivity.

Bonus Points

 * Familiarity with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, Redis Streams
 * Experience working with AWS services like EC2, ECR, RDS, S3, and IAM
 * Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and experience with Terraform for managing infrastructure deployment
 * Understanding of network infrastructure and cloud networking concepts, such as VPC, Subnet, Security Groups, and Load Balancing
 * Experience with traffic analysis via Charles proxy, browser developer tools, Datadog, logs
 * Understanding Kibana / Datadog log querying and dashboards

## Description

* Work in a team responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining backend services and APIs in Python running on AWS
 * Design and implement new features in our core technologies, working collaboratively with other stakeholder teams to understand requirements and identify the best technical solutions.
 * Leverage AI tools and agentic workflows in your daily work - from tech planning, code generation and review to exploring novel solutions.
 * Plan the future of our server core technologies that will lay the foundation for exciting new gameplay features
 * Inspect the performance of our server clusters and propose improvements
 * Deep analysis of player behaviors and how our server can be hardened to both improve player experience and defend against bad actors (botters, cheaters, etc)
 * Work closely with the QA team to resolve bugs and deliver high-quality code
 * Deploy, monitor, and manage applications in a cloud environment such as AWS
 * Stay up-to-date with industry changes and emerging trends, especially regarding Python, Redis and its ecosystem, AWS, Gaming, etc.