Principal Backend Engineer

Our Story

At SuperScale we bring games and studios to their maximum potential. With our technology and solutions we bring our partners to the level of performance their product deserves. We help them attract and retain valuable, engaged and happy users, and scale games growth to unexpected heights.

We are defining a new way of running games performance, and are the provider of choice for many of the leading games studios. If you play games, you have most likely played our clients games.

We are also leading the world of gaming into one of their logical and exciting developments and helping games transition to a blockchain-centric world, where NFTs and crypto co-exist with proper, interesting and engaging gaming experiences.

To continue our exponential growth we are bringing-in high performing and ambitious team players, whether an avid gamer or not (we’ll show you, there will be no way back): we are a B2B tech business above anything. We are enthusiastic and gung-ho about games but super- serious about our clients-partners success.

The Role

We are looking for a rockstar back-end engineer to join our R&D team. We build tools for game developers and data scientists based on Google Cloud Platform.

R&D’s job is to process analytics data from mobile games using our state of the art data processing pipelines and as part of a new initiative, feed results of machine-learning back into the game to improve user-experience and revenue.

With a portfolio of games that SuperScale maintains, your code will directly affect millions of users and can have a huge impact on company revenue.

Your Responsibilities

- Writing highly-scalable APIs consumed by mobile games
- Helping us improve our development process
- Designing cloud architecture, API definition and deployment
- Making sure that our API is healthy and up 24/7
- Guiding less experienced engineers by reviewing code and pair programming

What we like:
- Typescript, MongoDB, NestJS
- Google Cloud Platform; we use it extensively for everything from processing data to storing Docker images
- agile development; we set up our process ourselves, help us with that!
- broken windows theory; we keep things clean
- getting things done; we ship code often and refactor ruthlessly
- automated testing; in a small team of engineers, we cannot waste time NOT writing tests
continuous integration/delivery; we use Docker, part of data-processing heavily uses microservices
- our data scientists that write the SQL queries and machine learning algorithms, so we don’t have to

- Full day tasty and rich meals including breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack at your disposition every working day - provided by us for you for free
- WE DO CARE ABOUT YOUR WELLBEING - choose from a wide variety of weekly trainings from functional to pilates or yoga - for free, right at our offices.
- Free gym and showers at the offices
- Table tennis and table football
- Bike house for those friendly to the environment
- Spacy terrace with a wonderful view to chill with colleagues
- With wonderful new offices located in SKY PARK in Bratislava’s old town you won’t have any trouble with transportation and many services are right on the spot

- We will be happy if you could write a few words about yourself and your motivation to join us :) - no motivation letters are needed, simply write it in the body of your application/mail.
- If you are a SW Engineer, we'd love to see your work on Git.
- English CV is our strong preference.

All interviews are done remotely via ZOOM during the pandemic.
- Our usual hiring process consists of 1-2 rounds of interview.
- If you are applying on a specialist position you should expect a home assignment as well.