Software Engineer (Game Services)

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Company

hirify.global is an interactive entertainment company developing mobile games and player-facing services, including the Candy Crush franchise, for around 200 million monthly players.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain software used across multiple games and services.
• Develop scalable backend services, APIs, event-driven systems, and reusable platform components.
• Design integrations and data flows across player support, game, and internal platform systems.
• Own features through design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Improve scalability, resilience, observability, reliability, and maintainability of existing systems.
• Collaborate on architecture, technical discussions, code reviews, engineering standards, and AI-enabled player support solutions.

Requirements

• Professional software development experience, ideally with Java or another backend-oriented language.
• Experience designing scalable backend services and APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of relational or NoSQL databases, data modelling, performance considerations, and reliable system integrations.
• Experience with clean, maintainable, well-tested code and modern practices including Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and code reviews.
• Understanding of cloud systems, deployment practices, observability, monitoring, and production operations.
• Effective communication in English and availability to work in Barcelona, Spain.

Nice to have

• React or modern web development.
• AWS or other cloud platforms, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Kafka or other event-streaming platforms.
• AI-enabled products or workflows, shared platforms, or developer tooling.
• C++, C#, Android, iOS, or game development experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative team environment where engineers contribute beyond writing code.
• Ownership of technical decisions, architecture, and continuous improvement.
• Use of automation and AI-assisted development to improve software quality and delivery efficiency.
• Opportunity to work on products and platforms supporting millions of players across multiple games.
• Exposure to a diverse technology landscape and challenging engineering problems at scale.