About the role
Company
Miniclip
Location
Lisbon, PT
Job Type
Full-time, permanent, hybrid
Role Overview
Miniclip is seeking a Backend Developer for their Lisbon Games Development Studio to join an agile, highly effective team responsible for the development and operation of Multiplayer Mobile Game Backend Applications and Infrastructure supporting tens of millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Designing, developing, maintaining, and operating robust and scalable back-end systems by using, extending, and improving existing in-house technology.
- Finding the best solutions to implement, and tools to adopt, for the technological challenges the systems and processes face.
- Managing migrations of legacy systems.
- Participating in team activities to develop new concepts for game modes, promotional campaigns, temporary events, and in-game content.
- Working within a multi-disciplinary and highly motivated agile Scrum development team, including backend and client developers, quality assurance testers, and release managers.
- Proactively addressing opportunities and needs by supporting the development of new features and resolving bugs and limitations within internal systems.
Candidate Profile
We are looking for a social, humble, hard-working, and autonomous person who is self-motivated, dedicated, result-oriented, and accountable. Candidates must be team players who actively seek opportunities for self-development, take pride in their work, and engage with the team to improve together.
Mandatory Qualifications
- Professional experience in software development for networked back-end/server systems in a UNIX/Linux/POSIX environment.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, Go (Golang), Erlang, Elixir, or PHP.
- Experience managing high-capacity web servers.
- Experience with requirements analysis and dimensioning.
- Excellent problem-solving skills through analytical, systematical, or intuitive approaches.
- A strong curiosity and commitment to continuously learning new skills, exploring innovative approaches, and enhancing product and code quality.
- Proficiency in both written and spoken English.
Desirable Skills
- Cloud Infrastructure Design and Operation:
- Chef
- Packer
- Cloudformation and related technologies
- AWS
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Dependency Management Systems (PHP):
- Composer
- Autoloader techniques such as PSR-0 or PSR-4
- Caching Engines:
- Memcached
- Redis
About Miniclip
Miniclip is a global leader in games, developing and publishing mobile games with a mission of unleashing the gamer in everyone. They reach a global audience of over 450 million monthly and 60 million daily active users across mobile, PC, console, social, and online platforms. Operating in 15 countries with 22 studios, the company has generated over 12 billion downloads. Notable titles include 8 Ball Pool, Subway Surfers, Golf Battle, Football Strike, Carrom Pool, OSM - Online Soccer Manager, Football Rivals, Pure Sniper, Puzzle Page, Head Ball 2, Motorsport Manager, Darts of Fury, Mini Football, Triple Match 3D, Agar.io, PowerWash Simulator, Sudoku.com, and We Are Warriors.