Backend Development Lead

About Tactile

This vacancy is provided by Copenhagen Capacity.

Tactile is a Danish game development company located in the heart of Copenhagen. Our dedication to creating top-quality games with global appeal has lead to the development of a series of highly successful games like Lilly's Garden and many others in the Bee Brilliant, Cookie Cats and Simon's Cat universes.

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Position

Tactile Games is looking for an experienced Lead Back-end Developer with a strong knowledge of web service technologiesto drive improvements and further develop our unified vision and strategy for back end technologies.

Our backend developers work on business critical services supporting our games in areas such as live operations, marketing automation and data engineering. As the team lead, you will guide and coach individuals to achieve the goals that you help define as part of our growth and efficiency ambitions. 

We use a variety of technologies: Javascript, Typescript, NodeJS, MongoDB, Redis, Google BigQuery etc.

Responsibilities

• Develop back-end strategies along with our CTO
• Implement and execute on those strategies with the backend developers
• Improve and extend various tools based on prioritized business needs
• Be a coach and mentor for our team back end developers
• Ensure that we successfully maintain a unified vision with regards to our tech stack

Your qualification

• 8+ years backend/fullstack development experience
• 2+ years in lead role
• Profound knowledge of JavaScript
• Experience with web services (RESTful) and web technologies in general
• Experience with NodeJS
• Knowledge of MongoDB and Redis
• Understanding of Linux tools
• Solid data structure skills
• Experience with SQL
• Attention to detail
• Be independent and proactive
• Collaborative leadership skills and experience
• Excellent English communication skills

Will be a plus

Experience with:

• AngularJS
• Heroku
• Docker
• Amazon Web Services
• Python
• Google BigQuery

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by Copenhagen Capacity.