Remote Backend Engineer — Real-Time MMO Scale & Systems

SpiderWare; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote (GMT/BST overlap)

Contract role with extension post‑laun

Full-time consideration for excellent候

Indie team of 25

Job summary

Soulbound, a London-based indie game studio, is seeking backend engineers to scale our real-time MMO infrastructure. You will work with CTO on systems keeping thousands of players connected, using GKE, Kafka, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, building stateful game servers and event-driven services to 10x current scale.

You will optimize deployments, observability, and resilience, implement IaC with Terraform/Helm, and collaborate with a small senior team.

Qualifications

• Experience building real-time MMO backends and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes-based deployments and scaling.
• Proficiency with MongoDB and PostgreSQL in high-concurrency environments.
• Experience with Terraform/Helm for IaC and deployments.
• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana) and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Build, optimise, and scale backend services powering real-time multiplayer gameplay.
• Work with GKE, Helm, and Kubernetes to manage deployments and autoscaling.
• Improve observability: dashboards, alerting, and incident response.
• Scale distributed databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL) under high load.
• Optimise Kafka event streaming for player actions and inter-service communication.
• Identify bottlenecks and improve resilience to prevent cascading failures.
• Collaborate on architectural decisions with a small, senior engineering team.

Skills

Backend engineering

Kubernetes

Kafka

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Terraform

Prometheus/Grafana

GKE

Observability

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Redis

Pub/Sub

Istio

Job description

Soulbound, a London-based indie game studio, is seeking backend engineers to scale our real-time MMO infrastructure. You will work with CTO on systems keeping thousands of players connected, using GKE, Kafka, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, building stateful game servers and event-driven services to 10x current scale.

You will optimize deployments, observability, and resilience, implement IaC with Terraform/Helm, and collaborate with a small senior team.