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Goodgame Studios

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

📱 Media

Gaming • B2C • Media

Goodgame Studios is a leading software company specializing in the development and publishing of free-to-play mobile and browser games. With a global player base of over 500 million, Goodgame Studios offers a range of award-winning strategy, simulation, and role-playing games. Their popular titles include Empire: Four Kingdoms, BitLife – Life Simulator, and War Alliance, as well as browser games like Goodgame Empire and Goodgame Big Farm. Players can engage with these games directly from their computers or through apps on smartphones and tablets.

📋 Description

• Own backend services end-to-end, including architecture, implementation, infrastructure, deployment, production, and scaling • Design and operate high-throughput, low-latency Java services using JDK 17+ on AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and ArgoCD • Build resilient distributed components and tune memory, concurrency, and garbage collection for production workloads • Architect MySQL and Redis layers handling millions of player rows • Own CI/CD, observability, and on-call for shipped systems • Run agentic workflows using precise specifications, feedback loops, generated tests, and validation gates • Apply final judgment to architecture, security, and performance • Help define tooling, review standards, and completion criteria for agentic practices across the engineering organization • Collaborate with Goodgame Studios professionals to integrate ideas into MMO strategy games

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of backend Java experience at expert level • Expertise in distributed systems, concurrency, garbage-collection tuning, and SQL optimization • Deep experience with AWS and cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform • Demonstrated agentic coding practice • Ability to structure prompts and context for long-running tasks • Ability to determine when agents should run autonomously and when to intervene • Experience managing multi-agent setups and building custom tools or skills • Ability to review agent-generated code and maintain quality standards • Strong analytical decomposition skills for converting ambiguous product requests into precise constraints • Architectural judgment and ability to design clean, resilient systems • Highly proficient in English • For full-time remote employment: based within Germany and holding a valid German visa • Freelance applicants must work within the German time zone (CET/CEST) • Gaming backend experience, event-driven architectures, real-time telemetry or anti-cheat systems, and published agentic-workflow work are nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work within Germany • Remote work within the German time zone (CET/CEST) • High autonomy • Engineering-first culture • Opportunity to help define agentic engineering practices across the engineering organization • Collaboration with a 30+ person backend organization • Work on systems serving more than 200 million registered players • Work across a broad technical surface area including Java, MySQL, Redis, AWS, and distributed systems