Remote Backend Jobs

Scopely is looking for a Senior Server Engineer to join our Star Trek Fleet Command team within our Midcore division in Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom or Portugal on a remote basis.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and maintain backend systems and APIs in Python running on AWS, supporting both gameplay features and cross-game platform services.
• Implement scalable microservices architectures, ensuring low latency, reliability, and secure communication between systems.
• Collaborate with game and platform teams to understand requirements and deliver backend solutions that enable both core gameplay features and live operations.
• Optimize server performance and analyze system bottlenecks, ensuring services can handle high concurrency and global traffic.
• Strengthen backend resilience and security to defend against exploits, bots, or cheaters while safeguarding player data.
• Work closely with QA and operations teams to ensure high-quality, well-tested, and observable code is delivered to production.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing to raise the bar across the team.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps for backend systems, anticipating scaling needs for upcoming features and player growth.
• Deploy, monitor, and manage services in a cloud-native environment using AWS, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.

What We're Looking For

• Strong experience building and maintaining high-availability backend systems for large-scale games, microservices platforms, or high-traffic applications.
• Proficiency in Python and its ecosystem, including experience with frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Tornado, and an understanding of async programming and concurrency.
• Solid knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, or similar), and experience optimizing database performance at scale.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems, Docker containers, and cloud deployments (preferably AWS).
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Datadog, Kibana, or equivalent), monitoring, and logging best practices.
• Deep understanding of backend security principles (preventing intrusions, injections, exploits, and cheating).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and multi-track development workflows. Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, QA, design, and live ops teams.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on expertise with Redis (including RedisLabs/ElastiCache) and its ecosystem.
• Familiarity with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS SQS, or Redis Streams).
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, and CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform or similar tools.
• Understanding of networking and cloud infrastructure (VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancing).
• Hands-on experience with traffic analysis and debugging tools (Charles Proxy, browser dev tools, etc.).
• Background in game server architectures (stateful and stateless).