Senior Backend Engineer

About SYBO

SYBO is a mobile game developer company located in Copenhagen, Denmark. They're best known for being the developers of the most downloaded mobile game of all time, Subway Surfers, which at last count has over 2 billion downloads worldwide with tens of millions of people playing the game daily. While these are exciting numbers, they're not stopping there!

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Position

SYBO is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join their team to work on new games. A Backend Engineer at SYBO will be an intricate part of solving the many tough challenges we face when building very ambitious, top-notch F2P games that can challenge with the very best out there. You will be part of small, agile game teams, helping develop game services, highly available robust systems using state-of-the-art technologies and web tooling to support live operations on all our games, including working with existing / off-the-shelf solutions.

Responsibilities

• Technical design, implementation and maintenance of game services utilising HTTP-based APIs, batch processing and client-server services using Go
• Work together with the Game Engineers in projects and helping integrate these developed services with client-side games components and frameworks
• Write custom game server logic in an efficient, robust and optimised manner
• Build and operate the cloud infrastructure of our live games using AWS/GCS as well as external off-the-shelf back end service providers 
• Create/improve web tooling, for live ops, customer support, etc
• Maintain and improve the overall code quality of our in-house solutions
• Take an active part in ensuring that our roadmap and architecture fits the bigger picture of what we are trying to accomplish

Your qualification

• Higher education degree in a relevant field
• Excellent programming skills 
• A desire to work with Go
• AWS or GCS cloud infrastructure in general
• Experience working with databases (preferably from both SQL and NoSQL systems)
• Comfortable in a Linux based environment and its command line tools
• Keep cool under pressure, when issues pop up in live production environments
• Proficient with one web development framework (React, Angular)
• Fluent in English
• A strong passion for both making and playing games!

Will be a plus

• Experience working within the games industry, on shipped titles
• C# and Unity
• Solid knowledge about networking and protocols
• Synchronous multiplayer and building game servers
• Operational experience with back-end systems and databases at scale

What we offer

• The best office location in Copenhagen
• A chance to do the work of your life
• An informal and creative culture 
• Health insurance for every employee
• A pension plan
• Healthy lunch buffet
• Currently 20+ nationalities
• And a lot of fun
• Core values are:
  • We believe in Solid Products
  • We work in a Synced Community
  • We make our Performance Matter
  • We are Passionate Colleagues
  • Daily High Fives!