Backend Engineer - Remote, Flexible Hours, Scalable Gaming

AgileEngine, LLC.; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive compensation

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine, LLC. is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and scale the backend of a high-traffic gaming companion platform. You will implement REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript, design database schemas, and optimize for performance with Redis caching and modern data stores.

You’ll work with AI coding agents daily and deploy via Docker, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes. You will collaborate on analytics, user profiles, subscriptions, and game data, while integrating Stripe, Discord, Blizzard,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend development with TypeScript on Node.js.
• Strong SQL skills in PostgreSQL and/or MySQL with schema design and migrations on live data.
• Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs, authentication and rate limiting.
• Experience running analytical databases at production volume (ClickHouse preferred; BigQuery, Druid or similar also count).
• Experience with Redis or compatible cache stores, HTTP cache headers, and CDN behavior.
• Experience with background jobs and message queues (e.g., NATS).
• Proficiency with agentic AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor or similar).
• Comfortable reading and modifying React code for frontend integration.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment with shifting priorities.
• Flexible about working hours due to game launches.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript (Fastify, Hono) for user profiles, subscriptions and game data, including authentication, rate limits and typed contracts.
• Design schemas and write queries for PostgreSQL and MySQL (Prisma, Drizzle), including versioned game data, player builds and migrations on live use.
• Run analytics pipelines and dashboards: request logs, materialized views, revenue metrics.
• Own the cache layers end to end: Redis, caching, HTTP headers and CDN purges.
• Build and run scheduled jobs and queue consumers (NATS) for data sync, leaderboards and indexing.
• Integrate third-party APIs (Stripe, Discord, Blizzard, IGDB, Steam, YouTube).
• Process game assets and ensure frontend-friendly responses for Remix/Next.js.

Skills

Backend development

TypeScript

Node.js

REST APIs

GraphQL APIs

Caching strategies

AI coding tools

English communication

SQL proficiency

Cloud basics

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Prisma

Drizzle

Redis

NATS

Meilisearch

Stripe

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

AgileEngine, LLC. is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and scale the backend of a high-traffic gaming companion platform. You will implement REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript, design database schemas, and optimize for performance with Redis caching and modern data stores.

You’ll work with AI coding agents daily and deploy via Docker, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes. You will collaborate on analytics, user profiles, subscriptions, and game data, while integrating Stripe, Discord, Blizzard,