Senior Backend Engineer — Remote, AI-Powered Gaming

AgileEngine, LLC.; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 107,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive compensation: USD-based

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale the backend of a high-traffic gaming companion site. You will own API development, data schemas, and analytics pipelines, while integrating third-party services and optimizing performance for modern frontend frameworks.

The role demands 5+ years of backend with TypeScript, strong SQL skills, and experience with caching and AI coding tools. A fast-paced startup-like environment and remote-friendly offices are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years 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.
• Experience with analytical databases (ClickHouse preferred).
• Caching design: Redis or compatible store, HTTP headers, CDN behavior.
• REST and GraphQL APIs design and consumption, with auth and rate limiting.
• Background jobs and queues, including reliability challenges.
• High-volume, user-facing production apps experience.
• Agentic AI coding tools daily use and governance.
• Frontend reading of React code when needed.
• Startup-style, fast-paced environment adaptability.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript (Fastify, Hono) for profiles, subscriptions and game data.
• Design schemas and queries for PostgreSQL and MySQL with Prisma/Drizzle; versioned game data.
• Run ClickHouse analytics pipelines: request logs, materialized views, metrics and dashboards.
• Own the cache layers end to end: Redis caches, invalidation, HTTP headers, 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).
• Process game images into map tiles, sprite sheets and responsive sizes.
• Keep Remix/Next.js responses lean for performance and SEO.
• Collaborate with AI coding agents; review outputs, enforce tests and lint rules.
• Deploy via Docker, GitHub Actions and Kubernetes.
• Support high-traffic game launches, including outside standard hours.

Skills

Backend development

TypeScript

Node.js

REST APIs

GraphQL APIs

SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL)

Redis

AI coding tools

English (upper-intermediate)

Tools

Fastify

Hono

Prisma

Drizzle

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Meilisearch

NATS

Stripe

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale the backend of a high-traffic gaming companion site. You will own API development, data schemas, and analytics pipelines, while integrating third-party services and optimizing performance for modern frontend frameworks.

The role demands 5+ years of backend with TypeScript, strong SQL skills, and experience with caching and AI coding tools. A fast-paced startup-like environment and remote-friendly offices are offered.