Senior Server Engineer - Star Trek Fleet Command
Scopely is looking for a Senior Server Engineer to join the Star Trek Fleet Command team within our Midcore division in Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom or Portugal on a remote basis.
What You Will Do
* Design, build, and maintain backend systems and APIs in Python running on AWS, supporting both gameplay features and cross-game platform services.
* Implement scalable microservices architectures, ensuring low latency, reliability, and secure communication between systems.
* Collaborate with game and platform teams to understand requirements and deliver backend solutions that enable core gameplay features and live operations.
* Optimize server performance and analyze system bottlenecks, ensuring services can handle high concurrency and global traffic.
* Strengthen backend resilience and security to defend against exploits, bots, or cheaters while safeguarding player data.
* Work closely with QA and operations teams to ensure high-quality, well-tested, and observable code is delivered to production.
* Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing to raise the bar across the team.
* Contribute to technical roadmaps for backend systems, anticipating scaling needs for upcoming features and player growth.
* Deploy, monitor, and manage services in a cloud-native environment using AWS, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.
What We're Looking For
* Strong experience building and maintaining high-availability backend systems for large-scale games, microservices platforms, or high-traffic applications.
* Proficiency in Python and its ecosystem, including frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Tornado, and an understanding of async programming and concurrency.
* Solid knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, or similar), and experience optimizing database performance at scale.
* Strong knowledge of Linux systems, Docker containers, and cloud deployments (preferably AWS).
* Familiarity with observability stacks (Datadog, Kibana, or equivalent), monitoring, and logging best practices.
* Deep understanding of backend security principles (preventing intrusions, injections, exploits, and cheating).
* Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and multi-track development workflows. Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, QA, design, and live ops teams.
* A passion for mentorship and technical leadership, helping to grow the skills of other engineers and guiding best practices.
Bonus Points
* Hands-on expertise with Redis (including RedisLabs/ElastiCache) and its ecosystem.
* Familiarity with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS SQS, or Redis Streams).
* Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, and CloudFormation.
* Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform or similar tools.
* Understanding of networking and cloud infrastructure (VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancing).
* Hands-on experience with traffic analysis and debugging tools (Charles Proxy, browser dev tools, etc.).
* Background in game server architectures (stateful and stateless).
About Us
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as Star Trek Fleet Command, MONOPOLY GO!, Stumble Guys, MARVEL Strike Force, and Yahtzee With Buddies, among others. We create, publish, and live-operate immersive games across mobile, web, and PC platforms. Scopely was founded in 2011 and is a multi-billion-dollar business with a proprietary technology platform Playgami.
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