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 Backend Developer with a strong knowledge of web service technologies to join our team to drive improvements and further develop our unified vision and strategy for backend technologies.

Our back end developers work on business critical services supporting our games in areas such as live operations, marketing automation and data engineering. The team lead will guide and coach individuals to achieve the goals that you help define as part of our growth and efficiency ambitions. In addition to maintaining a solid overview and ownership of our backend architecture, you will work on your own development tasks.

We use a variety of technologies for our back-end services. The primary languages used for web services is Javascript and Typescript. We use NodeJS. The primary storage components are MongoDB and Redis. Additionally our analytics and data integrations platform use Google BigQuery as the storage component.

Responsibilities

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

Your qualification

• 8+ years backend/full stack development experience
• 2+ years in lead role
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript
• Experience with web services (RESTful) and web technologies in general
• Experience with NodeJS
• Knowledge of MongoDB and Redis
• Linux tools
• Solid data structure skills
• SQL
• Collaborative leadership skills and experience
• Excellent English communication skills

Will be a plus

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

Additional details

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