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Scopely · 3 days ago
Lead Engineer, Backend System
California, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$168K/yr - $253K/yr
5+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Oversee and contribute to a small team of engineers. You will help plan, organize, and direct the engineering work, ensuring on-time completion and quality outcomes
Write and review code, develop documentation, and debug problems, live, on very complex systems responsible for delivering our games to millions of fans
Assist development teams with your knowledge of best practices and proper design patterns to help build, scale, deploy, and operate new services and features
Consistently aim to optimize for stability, supportability, and cost
Together with the rest of the engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
Qualification
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Required
Prior experience as a team lead
5+ years of experience in a Site Reliability, Devops, or Platform engineering role
Proficient in one or more high-level language (Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and C# are all common on our projects but we are not picky)
Must be comfortable working in a Linux/Unix environment
Understanding of AWS’s core services, their use cases, best practices, and their coinciding implementation strategies
Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code with best practices
Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD systems
Experience with observability, application monitoring, and telemetry collection
Excellent communication skills and a self-driven attitude towards continuous learning
Preferred
Experience in maintaining and supporting infrastructure on a live service game
Experience using MongoDB, Redis, or similar document stores
Benefits
Healthcare benefits
Retirement benefits
Pet insurance
Paid holidays
Paid Scopely free days
Unlimited paid time-off
Company
Scopely
Scopely is an entertainment and video game company that creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games.
1,001-5,000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (9)
2022 (20)
2021 (24)
2020 (22)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$998.5MKey Investors
NewView CapitalRevolution GrowthAnthem Venture Partners
2023-04-05Acquired· by Savvy Gaming Group ($4.9B)
2021-10-18Secondary Market· Undisclosed
2020-12-11Secondary Market· Undisclosed
Leadership Team
Javier Ferreira
Co-CEO and Board Member
Walter Driver
Co-Founder, Chairman and Co-CEO
Recent News
2024-04-24
Game World Observer
2024-04-24
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