Senior Software Engineer (Gaming)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Gaming): Designing and implementing scalable backend and platform architecture for high-growth social gaming products with an accent on real-time tournaments, API design, and system performance. Focus on applying modern software design practices, optimizing performance bottlenecks, and ensuring application security in a fast-paced environment.

Location: Remote (Global)

Salary: 3000 EUR per month

Company

hirify.global is the world's leading Sports and Gaming marketing company, building next-level player experiences with a team of 600+ professionals across 22+ countries.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable, maintainable, observable, and high-performing application architecture.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks across systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features.
• Ensure application security and implement safeguards against vulnerabilities.

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering large-scale systems in production.
• Strong grounding in Domain-Driven Design, API-first architecture, and software design patterns.
• Proficiency in JavaScript (React/Next) or another backend language, ideally Node.js or PHP.
• Experience with Pub/Sub, websockets, and Server-Sent Events (SSE).
• Strong product engineering mindset to translate requirements into technical designs.

Nice to have

• Experience with MySQL.
• Experience creating white-label products.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside super smart colleagues and engage in development opportunities.
• Benefit from tailored flexibility for your work-life balance.
• Receive an annual discretionary bonus.
• Enjoy paid annual leave plus a well-deserved break during the festive season.
• Participate in exciting global hirify.global events.
• Access an extensive array of global benefits and perks.

Hiring process

• Initial Chat with Talent Partner (45 mins via Zoom).
• Interview with Technical team (1 hour video via Zoom).
• Technical Interview with coding exercise (1.5 hour video via Zoom or 2x 1hr).
• Interview with Non-Technical team (1 hour video via Zoom).
• Final Interview with Technical Leadership Team (1 hour video via Zoom).