Senior Backend Engineer
VGW is a fast-growing technology company and creator of market-leading online social games. With offices across Australia, USA, Canada, Malta, and the Philippines, we are on a mission to be the biggest gaming company in the world.
Due to major growth, we are expanding our Engineering team in the US and currently looking for a Sr. Backend Engineer to join the team.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership while delivering quality solutions using solid engineering practices that yield high product value.
- Plan, deliver, and maintain products that delight our customers and stakeholders.
- Build and maintain microservices to support our successful range of over 100 games.
- Build internal tools for our Customer Service and Quality Control teams.
- Work with stakeholders and product teams to design, build, test, and release end-to-end solutions while considering development risks and ensuring delivery of viable and maintainable solutions.
- Run design sessions with the team to discuss all possible solutions to define the problem or opportunity.
- Ensure robust coding practices, including writing clean, well-structured code, automated tests, and managing source control.
- Strive to improve the code base.
- Have a deep understanding of why design and architectural decisions are made.
- Ensure product features are delivered effectively as measured by lead time, deployment frequency, change failure percentage, mean time to resolution, and number of bugs in production.
What you should know about our Engineering team:
- We make room to do things the right way, rather than hacking stuff in.
- You own your projects: you build it, you ship it, you run it.
- We were born in the cloud: practices and principles like CI/CD, IaC, O11y, and CyberSec are part of what we do.
What you will bring to the role:
- Robust coding practices include writing clean, well-structured code, automated tests, and managing source control.
- Strive to improve the code base.
- Deep understanding of design and architectural decisions.
- Experience implementing and using event-driven architectures.
- Cloud development, preferably AWS.
- Containerisation (Docker and/or Kubernetes would be great).
- Strong fundamental knowledge of OO and Functional programming paradigms.
- Lead meetings, clearly communicate technical approach, status, assess and mitigate risk.
- A collaborative approach to software engineering.
- Empathy and the willingness to coach and mentor team members.
About VGW
VGW has been disrupting the online gaming world since 2010 and we're only getting started. We've assembled an incredibly talented global team who bring their passion, energy, and expertise to build games that people love.
At VGW, we have a modern approach to getting work done and a focus on creating an environment where amazing people can do amazing work. That means giving you the flexibility you need, providing spaces that will keep you comfortable, and finding opportunities for you to keep learning and growing.
If you want to join a team that does things differently, apply today and we look forward to seeing what you can bring to our team.
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