Senior Software Developer / Platform Lead

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer / Platform Lead to our gaming client. Candidates with gaming experience will be prioritized.

Start: ASAP

Length: 6 months with possible extension

Location: Stockholm on-site minimum 3 days per week

With the tech strategy, our client is expanding the live service operation of a very successful game and supporting R&D projects in the backend&platform domain

With this comes a need for someone to be an AWS / infrastructure / backend services lead that has deep knowledge of cloud platforms, service and solid engineering practices to allow us to fully utilize the platform.

Central Tech will be responsible for the tech stack as a platform, and with that be in a position to set best practices and improve both efficiency and quality. To do that, we need a senior programmer with ideas and opinions about how to do that.

Responsibilities

• Being involved in the full product cycle for services in the Central Tech platform, from green field development to maintaining the scalability and performance with millions of users.

• As the senior/lead AWS / infrastructure / services developer at central tech, you will be the one leading the work to really make our backend stack a platform and with that let game team developers focus on building the best possible game.

• You will be creating processes- tools and introducing best practices for things like AWS usage, monitoring, cloud strategy and handling security for backend services.

• Together with the rest of the team, define and set up common levels of monitoring of backend services.

• You’ll support the team by ensuring sustainable development processes and workflows. You will support and coach the other developers in the usage of AWS and tools within infrastructure.

• You’ll be the one leading the work with our existing cloud infrastructure.

Skills & Knowledge

• Solid professional experience with AWS (or other cloud infrastructure providers) at scale, preferably for non-web consumers (apps, other services, apis etc).

• Experience building and deploying services in the cloud, and living in an Infrastructure as Code environment.

• Knowledge about containerization (i.e. Docker), orchestration (ECS or Kubernetes) and IaC (Terraform and/or CloudFormation)

• Good understanding of databases preferably both relational and nosql databases. The larger volumes the better.

• Excellent communication skills, and proven ability to merge non-technical requirements into a technical solution

• Collaborating and coaching more junior developers.

What will they have accomplished in a year's time?

• Kept up with the growth for our current services that are in production. (Currently we’re handling about 1400 requests per second during peak hours)

• Continue to improve the observability of the platform

• Established best practices for running services within Fargate/ECS and Kubernetes