Remote Backend Engineer — Scalable Game Services

Keywords Studios Plc; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote work

Private medical insurance

Pension & life cover

Minimum 25 days holiday

Parental leave

Learning & development budget

Job summary

Keywords Studios Plc is seeking a talented, fully remote Software Engineer based in UK or EU to join a team of backend engineers across MPG. You will help develop and deploy backend services for large-scale game projects and work with co-dev clients on timely feature delivery.

The role involves server backend development for AAA and free-to-play titles, using AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes and Docker, with an emphasis on scalable distributed systems and leveraging Gen AI for code generation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with backend development using Java, C#, C++ or Kotlin.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and cloud certifications a plus.
• Solid SQL and NoSQL database experience.
• Background building distributed services and microservices.
• G gambits in version control with Git or Perforce.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to backend systems, write code and manage deployments.
• Keep the project lead and producer updated on revised estimates and delivery timelines.

Skills

Java

Golang

C#

C++

Kotlin

AWS

Azure

GCP

SQL

NoSQL

Distributed systems

Git

Perforce

Kubernetes

Docker

SOA

LLMs

Generative AI

Documentation

Job description

Keywords Studios Plc is seeking a talented, fully remote Software Engineer based in UK or EU to join a team of backend engineers across MPG. You will help develop and deploy backend services for large-scale game projects and work with co-dev clients on timely feature delivery.

The role involves server backend development for AAA and free-to-play titles, using AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes and Docker, with an emphasis on scalable distributed systems and leveraging Gen AI for code generation.