DIGIT is Ireland’s largest games developer, home to a talented team of over 90 people from all over the world and the creators of free-to-play MMO mobile strategy games. Our first game, Kings of the Realm, became a top grossing game in over 50 countries. Our latest project Star Trek™ Fleet Command, is an immersive F2P mobile MMO, which launched worldwide in November 2018 and continues to top the charts across the globe. DIGIT is part of Scopely, with studios in LA, Barcelona, London and Tokyo.

We are looking for a full-time Backend Engineer (Game Services) who will play an instrumental part in creating world-leading, next-generation MMORTS and empire-building games, played by millions of mobile gamers. You will be part of a small, skilled development team, who are tasked with the creation of highly scalable systems built for consistency and low latency. The size and dynamic of this team will grant you considerable responsibility and autonomy in tasks and the design and implementation of our architecture.

• 4+ years as part of a professional development team or other relevant area
• Experience in developing highly available back-end systems and servers for large-scale MMO games, high-traffic web systems or applications
• Strong development skills in either of: Python, Ruby, Go (Python can be learned on the job)
• Strong knowledge of Unix-like operating systems
• Experience with Redis, MySQL (or similar database systems)
• Ability to write efficient low-latency, low-IO code
• Good understanding of how to prevent intrusions, injections, cheating etc.
• Experience in version control
• Familiarity with deployments, ideally CI/CD pipelines

While not mandatory, below are nice to have:

• AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kibana, Chef, Ansible
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with stateful and stateless game server architectures

Perks of the job, to name a few:

• Relocating? We’ve relocated over 40 people from all over the world, from your flights to accommodation on arrival, we have you and your family covered
• Health and dental insurance for you, your spouse and dependants
• Generous holiday allowance
• Various weekly social events for you to get to know the city and your colleagues