SENIOR BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER

at  HAPPY HOUR GAMES PTE LTD

Driven by our passion for spreading joy and unleashing limitless creativity in the world of gaming, our goal is to establish a game studio right here in Singapore. Our dedicated focus lies in crafting casual mobile games that deeply immerse players in incredibly enjoyable experiences!
We eagerly welcome humble yet ambitious individuals to join us on this thrilling journey!

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience building backend systems or game services.
• Experience on cloud computing platforms like AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience with designing, developing scalable, production-ready architecture for large systems from scratch.
• Experience building high-quality software in languages like Go, Java, Python, Javascript
• Experience with building RESTful APIs.
• Solid understanding of game architecture, design patterns, and software engineering principles.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, continuous integration, and deployment pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Passion for gaming and a drive to create engaging experiences for players.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior experience with building backend systems for mobile games.
• Prior experience in game development.
• Leadership experience and the ability to mentor junior engineers.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems for mobile games.
• Lead technical design, implementation, debugging and optimization of game features.
• Collaborate with game designers and frontend software engineers for game feature implementation.
• Identify potential technical risks and provide technical advice for mitigation.
• Ensure the security and integrity of backend systems and user data.
• Write clean, maintainable, performant and well-documented code.
• Troubleshoot and resolve backend-related issues in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with other senior engineers to establish coding standards, best practices and development processes.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for code, systems, tools, processes.