Backend Developer (Mobile Games)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal; hybrid position

Company

hirify.global develops and publishes mobile games for a global audience, operating studios across multiple countries and supporting hundreds of millions of players.

What you will do

• Design, develop, maintain, and operate robust and scalable backend systems and infrastructure for multiplayer mobile games.
• Use, extend, and improve in-house technology while selecting effective tools and solutions for technical challenges.
• Manage migrations of legacy systems and support high-capacity web servers.
• Help develop new game modes, promotional campaigns, temporary events, and in-game content.
• Develop new features and resolve bugs and limitations in internal systems.
• Collaborate with backend and client developers, QA testers, release managers, and other specialists in an agile Scrum team.

Requirements

• Professional software development experience with networked backend or server systems in a UNIX, Linux, or POSIX environment.
• Experience with one or more of C, C++, Java, Go, Erlang, Elixir, or PHP.
• Experience managing high-capacity web servers, requirements analysis, and system dimensioning.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, autonomy, accountability, and commitment to continuous learning.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud infrastructure design and operation, including Chef, Packer, CloudFormation, or AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with PHP dependency management, Composer, or PSR-0 and PSR-4 autoloading.
• Experience with caching engines such as Memcached or Redis.
• Relevant training and certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, permanent employment.
• Work in an agile, collaborative, and multidisciplinary development team.
• Opportunity to contribute to games used by tens of millions of players.
• Work from the Lisbon Games Development Studio in a hybrid setup.