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Senior Backend Engineer
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Join a new mobile gaming venture in Israel to build and own backend services and infrastructure for mobile games. Work with the CTO, product team, and Unity developers across system design, deployment, and production operations.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services and APIs
- Own features from architecture through production
- Build systems for player accounts, progression, rewards, social features, and game state
- Integrate backend services with Unity clients and third-party platforms
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
- Manage deployments, monitoring, logging, and production reliability
- Improve performance, scalability, and stability
- Investigate and resolve complex production issues
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional backend engineering experience
- Hands-on experience building production backend systems
- Proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript, Java/Kotlin, Go, Python, or a similar language
- Experience with APIs and SQL and NoSQL databases
- Strong experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with Docker, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure
- Understanding of system design, scalability, and reliability
- Ability to work independently and take ownership
Nice to have
- Experience with mobile games or consumer applications
- Experience integrating with Unity
- Experience with real-time or multiplayer systems
- Experience with Redis, queues, WebSockets, or event-driven systems
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools