Senior Engineer_Monopoly GO

Scopely is looking for a Senior Engineer to serve on and elevate our new casual game, Monopoly GO!  team, in Seville working remotely either from Spain, the UK or Ireland. 

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.    

The Monopoly GO! team is one of our key franchises and has just become one of Scopely’s largest games.  The teams sit globally, with the bulk of their members located throughout Spain and the US.

What You Will Do

• Working closely with feature owners, the game design team and other development teams to implement new features within a feature team

• Work with game client developers to implement networked communications between game client and server

• Design and develop our game server and associated tools and libraries, with a focus on performance, scalability and consistency

• Write automated, high-quality tests (unit, integration etc.) and work with QA teams to improve gameplay experience, curtail exploits and ensure that everything works smoothly

• Implement tools to empower our liveops and game design teams in the creation of new and exciting game-play experiences 

What We're Looking For   

• 5+ years as part of a professional game development team or other relevant area

• Strong computer science and engineering fundamentals (data structures, concurrency, design patterns, algorithms)

• Mastery of C# or another OO language, including experience with asynchronous and multi-threaded programming paradigms

• Hands-on experience with cloud computing (AWS, GCP...) and low-latency, high-scale distributed systems

• Knowledge of Unix-like operating systems

• Experience with Redis (or other database systems), ORMs and migration scripts

• Ability to write efficient low-latency, low-IO code

• Good understanding of how to prevent intrusions, injections, cheating etc.

Bonus Points 

• Familiar with highly available back-end systems and servers for games

• Web development on a modern framework such as React or Angular

• AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kibana, Chef, Ansible

• Experience with automated testing

• Experience with stateful and stateless game server architectures

At Scopely, we believe in creating a supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect and inclusivity. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other protected status.