Senior Backend Engineer, Gaming APIs (Remote & Flexible)

AgileEngine, LLC.; Coimbra; Híbrido; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Professional growth

USD-based pay

Exciting projects

Flextime

Resumo da vaga

AgileEngine, LLC. in Coimbra, Portugal, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale the backend of a high-traffic gaming companion site.

You will develop REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript, design schemas for PostgreSQL/MySQL, and own caching and data pipelines, while collaborating with AI coding agents.

This role offers hybrid work with office and remote options and opportunities to impact Fortune 500 and top product teams.

Qualificações

• 5+ years of backend development with TypeScript on Node.js.
• 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, query plans, migrations on live data, transactions and locking.
• Experience running an analytical database at production volume (ClickHouse preferred; BigQuery, Druid or similar also count).
• Experience designing caching: Redis or a compatible store, invalidation strategies, HTTP cache headers, CDN behavior.
• Experience designing and consuming REST and GraphQL APIs, including authentication and rate limiting.
• Experience with background jobs and message queues, including handling jobs that run twice or don’t run at all.
• Experience with high-volume, user-facing production applications.
• Experience taking a product from idea to production.
• Proficiency with agentic AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor or similar): daily, hands-on use in a real codebase, and good judgment about when their output needs checking.
• Comfortable reading and changing React code when a feature reaches the frontend.
• Able to work well in a startup-style, fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Flexible about working hours: some game launches happen in the evening or on weekends and need coverage outside the standard 9-to-5.
• Passion for gaming.

Responsabilidades

• Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript (Fastify, Hono) for user profiles, subscriptions and game data, including authentication, rate limits and typed contracts.
• Design schemas and write queries for PostgreSQL and MySQL (Prisma, Drizzle), including versioned game data, player builds and migrations on tables in live use.
• Run ClickHouse analytics pipelines: request logs, materialized views, article and revenue metrics, and the queries behind dashboards.
• Own the cache layers end to end: Redis-compatible stores, query caching, tag-invalidated cache, HTTP headers and CDN purges.
• Build and run scheduled jobs and queue consumers (NATS) for game data sync, leaderboards, Meilisearch indexing, sitemaps, Stripe webhooks, payouts and data-deletion requests.
• Integrate third-party APIs (Stripe, Discord, Blizzard, IGDB, Steam, YouTube), handling retries, backoff and rate limits.
• Process game images into map tiles, sprite sheets and responsive image sizes.
• Keep responses lean for Remix and Next.js pages to improve time to first byte, PageSpeed and SEO.
• Work with AI coding agents every day: direct them, review their output, and maintain the guardrails that make their changes safe to merge (tests, lint rules, build checks, agent instructions).
• Deploy through Docker, GitHub Actions and Kubernetes.
• Support high-traffic game launches, including outside regular hours when needed.

Conhecimentos

Backend development

TypeScript

Node.js

REST APIs

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis caching

AI coding tools

English level

Ferramentas

Fastify

Hono

Prisma

Drizzle

ClickHouse

Meilisearch

NATS

Stripe

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Remix

Next.js

Descrição da vaga

AgileEngine, LLC. in Coimbra, Portugal, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale the backend of a high-traffic gaming companion site.

You will develop REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript, design schemas for PostgreSQL/MySQL, and own caching and data pipelines, while collaborating with AI coding agents.

This role offers hybrid work with office and remote options and opportunities to impact Fortune 500 and top product teams.