Senior Backend Engineer

p strong span style= font-size: 12pt; Every purchase, promotion, and reward inside a Wildlife game flows through the systems the In-Game Economy team builds. Every live game in the studio depends on us running smoothly. /span /strong /p p span style= font-size: 12pt; You'll thrive here if you spot the risk before it becomes an incident, propose the fix, own it end to end, and leave the system in better shape than you found it. You'll lead concrete architectural decisions, make engineers around you better as a natural consequence of your technical work. You'll design and evolve the services and SDKs that power monetization across the whole studio, working directly for the game teams that ship them. The impact of your decisions is visible in the metrics and the product, immediately with measurable consequences in production, every day. /span /p p span style= font-size: 12pt; em Our stack: Unity/C# on the client, Go on the backend, AWS and Kubernetes for infrastructure. /em /span /p h2 span style= font-size: 12pt; strong WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE DAY-TO-DAY /strong /span /h2 ul li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Own significant parts of the In-Game Economy stack: Purchases (SKU management, receipt validation, external stores), Popup/Offers, Player Journey, and the SDKs games embed to consume them. /span /li li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Leading the design and implementation of complex features across mobile and backend, with sound, explicit architectural trade-offs. /span /li li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Owning technical decisions for your area: architecture, performance, scalability, and the accountability that comes with each. /span /li li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Design and implement backend services in Go, running on Kubernetes, with DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, and gRPC in the daily toolbox. /span /li li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Investigate and act on production behavior: latency spikes, scale bottlenecks, unexpected provider changes (Apple/Google notification updates, store policy shifts). You diagnose and drive the response. /span /li li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Improve reliability and cost of services you own: run load tests before pushing changes, resize what is over provisioned, remove what is no longer needed. /span /li li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Partner directly with game teams (Tennis Clash, Zooba, Sniper 3D, and others) to unblock integrations, validate new features under real load, and adjust the platform when game requirements evolve. /span /li li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Raise the bar for the engineers around you through code review, design discussions, and pairing, as a natural consequence of your technical approach and work output. /span /li li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Share the on-call rotation: respond to incidents on services you know deeply, document what you learned, and push follow-ups that prevent the next occurrence. /span /li /ul h2 span style= font-size: 12pt; strong WHAT YOU'LL NEED /strong /span /h2 ul li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Solid experience designing and operating backend systems at scale: service decomposition, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures, and the trade-offs each involves. /span /li li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; A demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and raise the bar for those around you. /span /li li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Strong hands-on skills in Go and comfort working in Node.js, or comparable languages with willingness to ramp up quickly. /span /li li style= font-size: 12pt; span style= font-size: 12pt; Practical experience with DynamoDB or another NoSQL store at scale, Kafka or another streaming platform, and Kubernetes-b