Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

Bingo Bash is a highly international team working on the biggest video game from India to date (measured by revenue). Here you will work on a top-grossing F2P game with significant and growing daily revenues, and help create fresh content for our players.

What Youll Do

You understand the entire stack from web/mobile client to back-end, databases and networking systems and are capable of building mission-critical application features using industry-standard engineering best practices. You have experience working with large scale applications. You are an enthusiastic and high energy worker, who thrives on being in a vibrant, creative and fun work environment, building games that millions of users play every day! You will communicate with all the team members to establish a pipeline and integrate art assets, taking into account the game roadmap

• Work with team members to design, build and maintain new/existing features and products.
• Help define engineering best practices.
• Provide production support, system diagnosis and troubleshooting
• Support and be a critical part our devops culture

What Were Looking For

• 4+ years of software development experience in the LAMP stack (Linux-Apache-MySql-PHP) is a must
• Good hands on PHP application development - Practicing OOPS, SOLID, Coding Standards, Design Patterns, Modularity and Unit Testing. Core and Advanced concepts
• Detailed knowledge of Apache Web Server - Configuration Options, Commands, PHP Process Management, Logs management
• Must have Basic Linux skills - Installing Apache, PHP, MySql etc. Installing Apache modules, PHP Extensions. Useful linux commands like grep, awk, tail, lsof, telnet etc
• Good to have Advanced Linux skills - Bash Scripting, Disk Utility, Server Health, Incident Management, nohup
• Front end experience in web technologies - Session, Cookie, Ajax, GET, POST, Javascript, HTML, CSS. Good to have experience in Angular, React - NextJS, NestJS
• Excellent knowledge on Web Development, RESTful APIs concepts
• Good understanding of MySQL - Indexes, query performance. Good to have experience in NoSQL like Mongo, Cassandra
• Good to have knowledge on AWS environment and related services like EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ALB, Security Group etc
• Strong problem solving skills, excellent data structures and algorithmic skills.
• Knowledge on performance testing and tuning applications
• Bonus Points for MicroServices, Kubernetes, EKS, Java, C#, CICD, RabbitMQ, Cloud Watch
• A flexible self-starter who thrives on the challenges of working with new and varied technologies
• Experience working in scrum/agile teams. Must be a team player and understands the importance of collaboration
• Strong communication skills
• Passion for games and games industry
• Bachelor's Degrees in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience

At Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that! We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us & embrace the adventure!