Remote Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable AI Systems

NAPHORA GAMES GROUP; España; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Naphora Games Group seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, operate, and scale robust backend systems and platforms. This fully remote position aligns with our Saudi schedule (Sun–Thu, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM KSA time).

You’ll work across APIs, databases, AI integrations, and live operations, collaborating with Engineering, Product, BI, and other teams to deliver reliable solutions. Join us to build AI-enabled workflows and scalable services that power world-class games for a growing global

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, or equivalent hands-on experience building complex production systems.
• Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining backend systems in production.
• Proven experience working on live systems, products, or platforms serving a large number of users.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI tools, models, LLMs, or AI APIs into production systems and building practical solutions on top of them.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems, services, and APIs.
• Contribute to system architecture and long-term technical decisions.
• Build service layers and reusable components that can support multiple products and use cases.
• Design and optimize database schemas, queries, indexing, and data models.
• Build asynchronous systems using queues, workers, scheduled jobs, and event-driven workflows.
• Develop and maintain integrations with external platforms, APIs, and third-party services.
• Design systems capable of supporting high traffic, large user bases, and growing workloads.
• Support systems throughout their lifecycle, from development to production and live operations.
• Improve backend performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Identify technical bottlenecks and implement practical, scalable solutions.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, error handling, and system health tracking.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, performance issues, database bottlenecks, and service degradation.
• Integrate AI models, tools, and APIs into existing products and backend workflows.
• Build reliable interfaces between backend systems and external AI providers.
• Design end-to-end AI-enabled workflows connecting AI services with databases, APIs, backend systems, and product logic.
• Evaluate opportunities to use AI to improve product capabilities, workflows, and automation.
• Work closely with Engineering, Product, Data, Infrastructure, and other functions to deliver new features and products.
• Participate in technical planning, architecture reviews, and code reviews.
• Communicate technical risks, trade-offs, and solutions clearly.
• Contribute to improving engineering practices, system maintainability, and overall technical quality.
• Grow and mentor teammates as needed.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Distributed systems

Cloud environments

AI integrations

LiveOps experience

Database design

SQL databases

REST APIs

Performance optimization

Tools

Redis

Kafka

Job description

Naphora Games Group seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, operate, and scale robust backend systems and platforms. This fully remote position aligns with our Saudi schedule (Sun–Thu, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM KSA time).

You’ll work across APIs, databases, AI integrations, and live operations, collaborating with Engineering, Product, BI, and other teams to deliver reliable solutions. Join us to build AI-enabled workflows and scalable services that power world-class games for a growing global