Backend Engineer: Scalable Game Services & AI

xboxgaming; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

King is seeking a versatile Software Engineer to build backend services and APIs used across multiple games. You will work on distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and data flows that connect Player Support with game and internal platforms.

You’ll own features end-to-end, focusing on reliability, observability, and maintainability, while exploring AI-enabled capabilities to enhance player support. The role emphasizes collaboration across engineering, product, and design teams.

Formación

• Professional software development, ideally using Java or another backend-oriented programming language.
• Designing and implementing scalable backend services and APIs.
• Distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures.
• Relational or NoSQL databases, data modelling and performance considerations.
• Designing reliable integrations between systems.
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Modern engineering practices including Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and code reviews.
• Reliability, observability, monitoring, and operating services in production.
• Cloud-based systems and modern deployment practices.
• Collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams.
• Understanding systems end-to-end from user experiences to production operations.
• Using AI-enabled capabilities or AI-assisted tools in development.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and maintain software used across King 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 from design and implementation through testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Improve the scalability, resilience, observability, and maintainability of existing systems.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Contribute to architecture, technical discussions, code reviews, and engineering standards.
• Improve software quality through automation, testing, and continuous delivery.
• Explore and integrate AI capabilities into player support products, workflows, and internal tools where they can deliver meaningful value.
• Share knowledge and help grow the engineering culture within the team.

Conocimientos

Java backend

Distributed systems

Event-driven architectures

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

CI/CD & testing

Git & code reviews

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Docker or Kubernetes

AI capabilities in development

English communication

Herramientas

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Git

Descripción del empleo

King is seeking a versatile Software Engineer to build backend services and APIs used across multiple games. You will work on distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and data flows that connect Player Support with game and internal platforms.

You’ll own features end-to-end, focusing on reliability, observability, and maintainability, while exploring AI-enabled capabilities to enhance player support. The role emphasizes collaboration across engineering, product, and design teams.