Senior Backend Engineer for AAA Mobile Games

pixeltoysltd; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave

Discretionary Bonus

Private Medical Insurance

Company Pension

Death in Service

Wellness days

Flexi-time

Job summary

Pixel Toys is seeking a Senior Server Engineer in Leamington Spa to lead the next-gen backends for a AAA mobile title. You will own end-to-end feature development, drive architecture decisions, and set studio-wide standards.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance server systems and ensure security and scalability. You will mentor juniors, estimate tasks, and maintain low technical debt while advocating for coding best practices and continuous learning in an agile

Qualifications

• Seasoned server application development experience.
• Strong expertise in C# and .NET architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own planning and development of features and complex systems.
• Mentor junior team members and promote best practices.
• Profile, optimise, and secure critical server code before release.
• Collaborate with Designers, Artists, and client developers to integrate server tech.

Skills

C#

Architectural design

Code profiling

Performance optimization

Security practices

Effective communicator

Tools

DynamoDB

Redis

AWS

Datadog

Kibana

PagerDuty

Jenkins

CodeBuild

Spinnaker

Job description

Pixel Toys is seeking a Senior Server Engineer in Leamington Spa to lead the next-gen backends for a AAA mobile title. You will own end-to-end feature development, drive architecture decisions, and set studio-wide standards.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance server systems and ensure security and scalability. You will mentor juniors, estimate tasks, and maintain low technical debt while advocating for coding best practices and continuous learning in an agile