Staff Backend Engineer

Wildlife; São Paulo; Presencial; BRL 120.000 - 160.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading mobile game developer is seeking a passionate Staff Backend Engineer to join their Engineering team in São Paulo, Brazil. The ideal candidate will lead cross-team initiatives, set technical direction, and mentor engineers. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree in computer science and proven experience in managing complex projects. Strong knowledge of computer science theories and excellent communication skills are essential. This role offers the chance to work with a broad technology stack and to significantly impact the company's success.

Qualificações

• Proven experience leading complex technical projects that span multiple teams.
• Solid understanding of computer concepts (data structures, networking, concurrency).
• Excellent knowledge of software testing concepts.

Responsabilidades

• Set technical direction for key platform and AI-powered domains.
• Lead cross-team initiatives from technical design to rollout.
• Raise operational excellence by defining SLIs/SLOs and evolving observability.

Conhecimentos

Computer Science

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

VMware

C / C++

Go

System Architecture

gRPC

OS Kernels

Perl

Distributed Systems

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent tech areas

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Were looking for a hardworking and passionate Staff Backend Engineer to join Wildlifes Engineering team.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our companys success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature and comfortable in a take the initiative environment loves solving problems and can thrive in a fast and growing business.

The Backend Team at Wildlife is reinventing itself. It started providing services for the games online features and has since evolved to provide a platform that leverages the best of our teams when creating operating and distributing our games.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our companys success and to achieve that we work with a broad technology stack and have an approach of being fully responsible for our systems from their conception to incident resolution and troubleshooting in production.

We own several services that combined serve more than 1 million requests per minute. We know this number will only grow and were looking for engineers that can help with the challenges of developing backend systems that perform well at a large scale.

What You’ll Do

• Set technical direction for key platform and AI-powered domains designing architectures that serve multiple games and teams defining how traditional services and AI / LLM-based capabilities work together and making pragmatic trade-offs between speed quality cost and model usage.
• Lead cross-team initiatives end-to-end from discovery and technical design to rollout monitoring and iteration unblocking dependencies and ensuring projects deliver real business and player impact.
• Raise the bar on operational excellence by defining and improving SLIs / SLOs evolving our observability reducing incident frequency and mTTR and driving cost and performance improvements across shared infrastructure (databases caches queues etc.).
• Simplify the life of every developer using our platform : reduce complexity improve APIs and developer experience shorten cycle times and champion solutions that scale across teams not just for a single project.
• Mentor and multiply other engineers (mid senior and staff-in-progress) : coach on design and decision-making review high-impact RFCs and architecture docs give clear feedback and help create the next generation of technical leaders at Wildlife.
• Be a visible technical voice in the org for platform and AI topics leading design / postmortem / ops reviews contributing to RFCs influencing our AI strategy from an engineering perspective and representing your team in planning and engineering-wide discussions.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent tech areas and / or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience leading complex technical projects that span multiple teams or systems including scoping milestones risk management and cross-team communication.
• Solid understanding of computer concepts (data structures networking concurrency memory management and algorithm analysis).
• Excellent knowledge of software testing concepts (testability escape rate regression unit integration soak stress test automation).
• Experience owning projects end-to-end : from scoping and milestones to rollout monitoring and post-release improvements.
• Excellent communication skills : you can go deep with engineers and speak business impact with PMs and leaders adapting message and level of detail to the audience.

Nice to Have

• Experience developing and maintaining systems with a high volume of requests.
• Experience developing systems in the games industry.
• Experience developing systems in the ad tech ecosystem.
• Experience developing platform products.
• Business knowledge about the games industry.
• Experience in Golang.
• Experience in Unity development.

More About You

• Youre passionate about software development and know how to ensure its quality.
• Youre motivated by building up back-end services and are aware of its different architectures.
• Experienced working in an environment which uses and stimulates DevOps culture;
• Youre creative when solving problems and are continuously seeking improvements for processes and solutions.
• You can communicate clearly with your team and the company to identify issues and demands.
• You enjoy mentoring and unblocking others sharing context and being a technical reference that people seek out.
• You contribute to engineering culture beyond your team : tech talks RFCs postmortem reviews hackathons or other initiatives that raise the bar for everyone.

About Wildlife

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles reaching billions of people around the globe. Today we have offices in Brazil Finland and the United States. Here we create games that will excite intrigue and engage our players for years to come!

Equal Opportunity

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affiantative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race colour national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local law.

Were committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.

Required Experience

Staff IC

Key Skills

Computer Science,Docker,Kubernetes,Python,VMware,C / C++,Go,System Architecture,gRPC,OS Kernels,Perl,Distributed Systems