Senior Backend Engineer - Gaming Scale & AI Tools

AgileEngine, LLC.; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 81,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive USD pay

Flextime

Office and remote options

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale the backend for a high-traffic gaming companion site. You will implement REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript, manage databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) with Prisma/Drizzle, and optimize analytics pipelines (ClickHouse).

You’ll own caching, queues, integrations with Stripe and other partners, and work in a fast-paced startup-style environment.

Qualifications

• - 5+ years of backend development with TypeScript on Node.js.
• - Strong command of TypeScript’s type system (generics, inference, discriminated unions, narrowing).
• - Schema validation experience with Zod or similar.
• - Strong SQL skills in PostgreSQL and/or MySQL: schema design, indexing, migrations on live data.
• - Experience running an analytical database at production volume (ClickHouse preferred).
• - Experience designing caching with Redis and HTTP cache headers.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript (Fastify, Hono) for user profiles, subscriptions and game data.
• Design schemas and write queries for PostgreSQL and MySQL (Prisma, Drizzle).
• Run ClickHouse analytics pipelines: request logs, materialized views, dashboards.
• Own the cache layers end to end: Redis, cache invalidation, HTTP headers, CDN purges.
• Handle background jobs and queues (NATS) for data syncs, leaderboards, and payouts.
• Integrate third-party APIs (Stripe, Discord, Blizzard, IGDB, Steam, YouTube).

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

REST APIs

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

AI coding tools

Deployment tooling

Tools

Prisma

Drizzle

PostgreSQL tools

ClickHouse

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Meilisearch

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale the backend for a high-traffic gaming companion site. You will implement REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript, manage databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) with Prisma/Drizzle, and optimize analytics pipelines (ClickHouse).

You’ll own caching, queues, integrations with Stripe and other partners, and work in a fast-paced startup-style environment.