Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Powered, High-Traffic Gaming

AgileEngine, LLC.; Lublin; In loco; PLN 472.000 - 709.000; Tempo pieno

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Professional growth

Competitive USD-based pay

Exciting projects

Flextime

Descrizione del lavoro

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale the backend of a high-traffic gaming companion site. The role requires 5+ years of backend development with TypeScript on Node.js, strong SQL skills and experience with REST/GraphQL APIs, Redis caching, and AI coding tools.

Responsibilities include API design, data schemas, analytics pipelines, cache layers, background jobs, third‑party integrations, image processing, and deployments with Docker, GitHub Actions and Kubernetes.

Competenze

• 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.

Mansioni

• Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript for user profiles, subscriptions and game data.
• Design schemas and write queries for PostgreSQL and MySQL (Prisma, Drizzle).
• Run ClickHouse analytics pipelines: request logs, metrics and dashboards.
• Own the cache layers end to end: Redis stores, caching, HTTP headers and CDN purges.
• Build and run scheduled jobs and queue consumers (NATS) for data sync and leaderboards.
• Integrate third-party APIs (Stripe, Discord, Blizzard, IGDB, Steam, YouTube) with retries.
• Process game images into map tiles and responsive assets.
• Keep responses lean for Remix and Next.js to improve time to first byte.
• Work with AI coding agents daily and ensure safe merges with tests and lint rules.
• Deploy through Docker, GitHub Actions and Kubernetes.
• Support high-traffic game launches outside regular hours.

Conoscenze

Backend development

TypeScript

Node.js

PostgreSQL / MySQL

REST & GraphQL APIs

Redis caching

AI coding tools

English (upper-intermediate)

Strumenti

Fastify

Hono

Prisma

Drizzle

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

GraphQL

REST

NATS

Meilisearch

Stripe

Docker

Kubernetes

Descrizione del lavoro

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale the backend of a high-traffic gaming companion site. The role requires 5+ years of backend development with TypeScript on Node.js, strong SQL skills and experience with REST/GraphQL APIs, Redis caching, and AI coding tools.

Responsibilities include API design, data schemas, analytics pipelines, cache layers, background jobs, third‑party integrations, image processing, and deployments with Docker, GitHub Actions and Kubernetes.