Devoted Studios 1

Backend Engineer

Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 13 days ago

JavaScalaCode ReviewMongoDBRedisDynamoDBAWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDAPI DevelopmentRESTKafkaOAuthCybersecurityCommunication

About the role

Our team includes world-class talents who bring deep expertise in external development, pipeline optimization, and creative problem-solving.
It is an engineer who architects the service, deploys it, monitors it in production, responds when it breaks, and improves it after every incident.
This is a remote, full-time contracted position.

Design and build scalable, resilient web services in Java and/or Scala that support game client needs across PC, console, and mobile
Design REST APIs that game clients actually integrate well against - clear contracts, versioned, documented, forgiving of client-side variation
Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using IaC tooling (CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation - confirm what's in use on the engagement)
Understands the network and security posture of services exposed to game clients - VPC design, security groups, IAM least privilege, secrets management Live Operation & Observability
Responds to production incidents in services they own - has on-call responsibilities commensurate with service criticality
Participates in client-facing technical reviews where backend service design is on the table Quality & Engineering Standards
REST API design with real client integration experience - PC, console, or mobile clients consuming services they built
OAuth/OIDC, rate limiting, input validation, OWASP awareness at service design level

has been on-call for services they wrote.
Has written a post-mortem.
Has shipped the fix.
5+ years of professional backend/server-side engineering experience with at least 3 years working on services at live production scale
Java at a professional shipping level - not just familiarity.
AWS hands-on ownership - has provisioned, deployed, monitored, and debugged AWS infrastructure, not just used managed services provisioned by someone else
Polyglot data store fluency: has made deliberate choices between MongoDB, DynamoDB, and Redis for different use cases - not defaulted to one store for everything
End-to-end ownership mindset: has been on-call for services they wrote.

structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, health checks, and alerting before it goes live - not after the first incident
Whether it's porting games to new systems, enhancing gameplay features, or crafting stunning visuals, Devoted Studios operates as a trusted, flexible extension of our partners' internal teams.
Own the data model - choose the right store (MongoDB for flexible document storage, DynamoDB for key-value at scale, Redis for caching and session state) and justify it
Right-size AWS resources for cost and performance - does not default to over-provisioning and does not leave obvious cost inefficiencies

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