About the role
Location
ES - Barcelona, Spain (Hybrid)
Company Overview
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including “MONOPOLY GO!”, “Pokémon GO,” “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, and “Yahtzee® With Buddies.” Founded in 2011, the company is powered by the proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Scopely is the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, with more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue.
Playgami is building a SaaS gaming platform focused on game production, operation, and insights, powering franchise games across mobile, web, and PC.
Role Overview
Scopely is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Playgami team. This role involves setting technical direction, leading complex feature development, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of systems that power world-class games.
Responsibilities
- Lead work from design through implementation and operation, producing maintainable code, useful documentation, effective tests, and reliable releases.
- Set technical direction for complex features and systems that run world-class games at scale, owning clear trade-offs between player experience, delivery speed, and long-term health.
- Raise standards across teams, improving delivery, performance, reliability, scalability, and security through sound design and production feedback.
- Partner with colleagues in product, data, design, and other disciplines to clarify ambiguous problems, align decisions, manage dependencies, and deliver meaningful outcomes for the business.
- Mentor engineers, share knowledge, and help colleagues succeed beyond the immediate team.
Qualifications
- Core Skills: Strong computer science and engineering fundamentals, including system design, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
- Programming Languages: Deep experience with Java, C#, or another object-oriented language, including asynchronous and parallel programming.
- Experience: A track record of designing, shipping, and operating complex production systems with high-quality, maintainable code.
- Soft Skills: The ability to lead across teams and disciplines through influence, communicate decisions clearly, and work constructively.
- Mindset: A product engineering mindset, sound judgment under ambiguity, and a habit of learning and improving.
Bonus Points
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience with low-latency, high-volume distributed systems or large-scale data technologies.
- Experience with a modern web framework such as React or Angular.
Culture and Commitments
- Committed to a diverse, supportive work environment.
- Provides equal employment opportunities to individuals from all backgrounds.
- Employment is based solely on merit and qualifications, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, or other protected bases.
- Considers qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law.