BACKEND PROGRAMMER (Mid/Senior Level)

Salary Competitive

As a talent agency in Finland, we have been making efforts to be a trustworthy bridge for both talents and clients. Let us help you showcase your skills and take off your career in Finnish game industry by applying via Games Factory Talents


Our Client is looking for a Mid-level or Senior Backend Programmer to join the core game development team where this person will play an important role in our small, fast-moving team building scalable, green-field, backend services in support of massively multiplayer game.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement new services from scratch

  • Maintain and improve existing systems that support our games

  • Backend development in collaboration with other teams

Requirements

  • 5+ years of work experience in a similar role on mobile or PC titles with large userbases

  • Experience maintaining and provisioning cloud services like AWS, Google Cloud or Azure

  • Solid knowledge of Java or any object-oriented language

  • Knowledge and experience of designing microservices at scale

The ideal candidate will also have

  • Experience in Go

  • Experience in running live multiplayer games

  • Experience in different kinds of databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis)

  • Experience in container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)

  • Experience in infrastructure as code (Terraform)

  • Experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

  • Experience in monitoring tools and observability (Prometheus, Grafana)

Benefits

  • You are not alone as working with a great team of passionate game developers

  • We value character – we are all different but have a common purpose. We respect each other's talent and contribution.

  • An international team with representatives of 12 countries!

  • Loving, playing and developing games – you will always have someone to play with!

  • Convenient location - downtown Helsinki, with tons of options for transportation, shops and restaurants all within reach.

  • Relocation package support if Finland is not your base. You will get to love the country of Moomins, Santa and coffee!

  • Last but not least – competitive compensation and good benefits!

For more information or questions please contact us at vivian@gamesfactorytalents.com

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Skill development
Skill development

We want to take you from good to great.

Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

You know how you perform best. Work from your couch, your favorite cafe or abroad when you feel like it.

Working at
Games Factory Talents

Connecting Passion and Talent We connect leading Finnish Studios with talented tech professionals in the Games Industry At Games Factory Talents we are dedicated to nurturing resourceful methods in sourcing talents for our clients within the games industry. Our values and process resonates in the talents that are successfully placed from across the globe with the Finnish Studios. Games Factory Talents is all about matching the right talent with the right opportunity. To be able to achieve this we strongly believe in going through the journey along with our talents in helping them reach their career goals. OUR SERVICES Recruitment: We help leading Games studios from Finland to acquire top talent from Finland and abroad. We have been working with all the leading Games studios from Finland and helped them to recruit for multiple open roles. Games Job Fairs: Recruitment events where studios get to screen, interview and recruit talents for multiple open roles during one or two days of intensive networking. We organised the Finland Games Job Fair in April with 1778 talent from across the globe and 16 leading Games studios. GameDev Talent Board: An anonymous talent board where Games industry professionals can showcase their talent, specify seniority level, skills and technologies and tell us more about themselves without disclosing their personal data.

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