Senior Backend Programmer (Stockholm Studio)

Rovio’s Stockholm Studio is the studio behind the hugely popular Angry Birds 2, the bigger, badder and birdier sequel to the global phenomenon that put Angry Birds on the map. While they continue to expand and improve that title, they are developing new IPs and game ideas, specifically within the RPG genre, with the mission of becoming the best mobile RPG developer in the west. This presents a great opportunity for the studio to mix their experience with accessible, inclusive, mass-market games, with their personal love for RPGs. Their design pillars are: dynamic, character-driven, and highly social. They are motivated to create mid-core games that are both approachable and challenging.

We are now looking for a Senior Back-end Programmer to join our talented Stockholm Studio to work with our top performing games.

You need a proven record in implementing and maintaining server back-end. You should have experience and good understanding of designing, implementing and testing server functionalities. You will be working closely with other server and client programmers, game producers and game designers.

Your responsibilities as a Senior Back-end Programmer:

Design, implement and test game backend functionality for games using C# and .Net Core
Create, maintain and operate the game server cloud infrastructures
Ensure that game backends are efficient, secure and scale well
Integrate other cloud services to game servers
Participate in designing client/backend communication protocols
Work as a team with other developers, designers and artists


We are looking for someone who has:

Minimum 5 years of server programming experience leading to mastery of relevant skills and technologies
Good knowledge and experience of cloud platforms and related technologies, for example AWS or Azure
Experience in Rest-API based services
Good understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases
Strong programming skills using C#
Proficiency with Python, Bash or other languages is a strong plus
Experience building and operating scalable applications for high load of users
Understanding of game architectures and technologies
Experience with debugging, profiling and performance optimizations
Experience in deploying and operating log collection management and monitoring systems (e.g. Logstash, Kibana, Zabbix, Grafana)
Analytical problem solving


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