Principal Backend Engineer

🕒 June 15

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Climax Studios

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1993

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

Gaming • Media

Climax Studios is a distinguished name in the gaming industry, with a history of over three decades in developing digital experiences across a wide array of formats. With locations in Portsmouth, London, Edinburgh, and Liverpool, Climax Studios collaborates with top developers globally to deliver AAA games including acclaimed titles like Age of Empires IV. Renowned for its creative, art, and technological solutions, the studio continues to innovate and inspire with its full game development capabilities. Climax Studios is known for its commitment to crafting epic landmark games with the best industry talents.

📋 Description

• Individual contribution: architect systems, write code, deployments, etc. • Act as the engineering contact point between MPG and the client, working alongside the Project Manager and Engineering Leadership • Translate client requirements into tasks for yourself and team members • Make the right trade-offs to design systems based on performance, time, and budget • Mentor and delegate pieces of work to other team members to help develop them as engineers • Create estimated cost spreadsheets for online services based on projected concurrent users • Cultivate engineering best practices across teams: modular design, code quality, testing • Work with the Lead and Production to communicate risks, benefits, and future roadmaps • Active mentorship of the engineering team towards professional accreditation (e.g., AWS Certification) and technical leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in game development and having shipped multiple live games (or similar products) with a high concurrent user count • Proven experience architecting distributed applications with a high concurrent user base (hundreds of thousands), ideally proven with a released title or robust load tests • Production experience with at least one of Java, Golang, C#, C++, Kotlin; experience with Python, Node.js and React is desirable • Solid database experience, with the ability to work effectively with both SQL and NoSQL databases • Proven experience with cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure; having an AWS Certification (Professional level) would be advantageous • Proven experience building backend infrastructure using infrastructure as code tools, e.g. Terraform • Proven experience using Kubernetes and Docker to build products at scale • Ability to autonomously architect and design online services based on a specification • Ability to navigate changes calmly and manage multiple pieces of potentially confidential information • Excellent time management and ability to work autonomously • Clear and effective communicator with the ability to discuss technical strategy with non-technical stakeholders and adapt to client needs • Experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch or improving existing client solutions • Awareness of security/cheating implications of technology choices • Experience using Gen AI for code generation • **Beneficial** • Deep expertise in at least one relevant area of backend technology, e.g. DevOps, Microservices, Cloud Architecture • Understanding of how a backend service integrates with the game - experience with Unreal or Unity would be useful but not required • An understanding of how to use LLMs to process and query structured and unstructured data

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working: Remote-friendly long before it was the norm, with core hours that support both great work and real life. • Support & wellbeing: Mental health first-aiders, therapy and coaching via Myndup, plus private medical insurance to help you stay healthy and supported. • Pension & life cover: A strong pension plan and life insurance to support your future and protect your family. • Time for you: Minimum 25 days’ holiday, a paid winter break, and 3 volunteering days each year to give back to causes you care about. • Parental leave: Family-first policies that support parents and caregivers with flexibility and balance. • Levelling up: Annual L&D budget, expert talks, game jams, and mentoring opportunities to help you grow your skills and career.