Game Developer (m/f)
Mindera, Portugal

Here at Mindera, we are continuously developing a fantastic team, and would love it for you to join us.

As a Backend Software Engineer you’ll be part of the development of the core service-oriented architecture.

We’re looking for experienced Backend Engineers (Go focus) who have an appetite for solving complex and interesting problems. Experience and motivation for developing fun games for the iGaming industry is valued. A general knowledge of the inner workings of game engines and game physics is highly valued. Our focus is to develop with high standards, having operational aspects in mind (metrics collection, tracing, etc.) with a holistic view of the backend platform in the back of your mind.

You’ll also be taking our in-house developed game and physics engine based in Go to the next level, improving on its functionalities while satisfying our clients’ needs. Simultaneously, you’ll use it to develop awesome games in a multidisciplinary team, translating the designer’s work into real mechanics and working together with front-end developers to achieve a fun experience for the end user.

National and international expected traveling time varies according to project/client and organisational needs: 0%-15% estimated.

Requirements

• Service oriented architectures, design patterns and data structures;
• Test automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery;
• Operational aspects, building performant applications and monitoring them showing you care about your code;
• Working with relational and non relational databases,
• Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.

• Being self-driven, self-organized and working with little supervision towards a common team and company purpose;
• More than one programming language such as Go, C# or Javascript;
• Developing fun and performant games; experience with game engines, i.e., Unity is valued;
• Understanding physical simulations, transforming game objects into physical entities and how game engines as a whole work;
• Transforming design specifications into concrete implementations;
• Ensuring the best performance and responsiveness of the games you’ll develop;
• Building highly concurrent, transactional and resilient services.

Benefits

• Fun, happy and politics-free work culture built on the principles of lean and self organisation;
• Work with large scale systems powering global businesses;
• Competitive salary and benefits.

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

iGaming and Mobile games, are at the core of what we do at Mindera Gaming.

We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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