Senior Server Developer

Who We Are:

Small Giant Games is one of the top-performing mobile gaming companies in the world. We are proudly part of the Zynga & Take-Two Interactive family.

We believe small, skilled, and independent teams can accomplish gigantic things. We know the best teams are created by hiring the best individuals and by trusting these individuals with ownership and responsibility for the work they do. Transparency, low hierarchy, and a good work-life balance are not just buzzwords for us but critical parts of our culture. We focus on the essentials while constantly looking to learn more and improve our products, our processes, and how we work together as a company.

We are looking for more professionals to join our ranks. You will be participating in the development and maintenance of our current and upcoming games for global markets. You'll also get the chance to work on the full game stack – some of the tools we use include Scala, MongoDB, AWS, Unity and C#.

• Maintaining and improving our backend infrastructure and services
• Implementing new server side features for games
• Incident response
• Improving our in-house tools in close collaboration with respective teams

• Good teamwork and communication skills
• Experience in server-side technologies
• Good understanding of Scala, Java or other statically typed languages
• Basic or intermediate level SQL skills
• A razor sharp mind and the ability to learn new things extremely quickly
• A positive “can-do” attitude

• A long history of programming, either as a hobby or as a professional
• Good understanding of AWS and MongoDB
• Incident management and response experience
• Working history with Scala or other functional programming languages
• Experience in server infrastructure maintenance (SSH, Bash, Terraform)
• Solid understanding of application and cloud security
• Interest in games and game development

• Exciting, fun - and successful - projects to work on.
• Extremely talented and helpful colleagues.
• Lots of power and responsibility.
• Flexible remote working possibilities.
• Competitive salary and other benefits.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization.  Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at [email protected] to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.

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