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Spyke Games

Posted 4 months ago

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Backend Game Developer

IstanbulOn-siteFull-time

AI Summary

A backend-focused developer designs, builds, and maintains server-side game services for mobile games in an agile environment, fixing bugs and improving features.

About this role

About Spyke Games

We are a leading mobile gaming company founded by gaming veterans who have built and scaled massive gaming businesses for the past decade.

We want to build the next generation of mobile game franchises to be played by millions of people around the globe for years. We are bringing together the smartest, the most talented and ‘fun to work with’ group of people united around this single mission. Fostered with team spirit and collaboration, we strive to create a passionate, energetic and eager to learn “geek” culture focused on games.

We are looking for an experienced Backend Game Developer to join our engineering team. At Spyke, you will be crafting code to contribute to the development process while developing your engineering & game development skills. If you are eager to jump into challenges and work on world-class projects, Spyke is the right place for you. Come join us!

Job Responsibilities

  • Developing backend game services on schedule in an agile daily life cycle with other talented developers and product managers.
  • Improving previously implemented features and fixing bugs in any area (gameplay, network messaging, architecture, data store, scheduled jobs, etc.)
  • Making peer code reviews to check the quality & learn from it as well.
  • Write clean, sustainable code and create extendable, scalable architecture.
  • Monitoring and maintenance of live game services.
  • Improve yourself inside Spyke engineering culture to contribute to the global game development community.

    • Job Requirements

  • University degree in Computer Science or any equivalent department
  • +2 years of experience, deep understanding of Java with experience in best practices, idioms, GC, and memory optimization.
  • RESTful Web Service and Application development experience with Spring Boot
  • Experience in concurrency, distributed systems, network protocols & optimization.
  • Knowledge in NoSQL, Relational(MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), and in-memory databases.
  • Excellent understanding of software architecture, design, and development.
  • Having strong engineering skills and programming fundamentals
  • Eager to search, discuss and learn new technologies and adapt them into our games and related code libraries.
  • Comfortable with investigating & reading in English
  • Having analytical, practical problem-solving skills
  • Previous experience on high traffic services on the AWS platform.
  • Experience in the gaming industry with knowledge of synchronous multiplayer games.
  • Hands-on experience in a programming language other than Java.

    • Skills

    AWSConcurrencyDistributed SystemsGame DevelopmentIn-memory DatabasesJavaMySQLNetwork ProtocolsNoSQLPostgreSQLRESTfulSpring Boot

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