Senior Cloud Developer

Senior Cloud Developer – Backend & Tools

Location: Remote – UK & Europe

Job Type: 12 months FTC with potential for it to become permanent

About the Role

We’re working with a remote-first games studio looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Developer to help develop and strengthen the backend services, cloud infrastructure and internal tools that support their live mobile games.

This is not a gameplay development role. You’ll work behind the scenes on the services, APIs and tools that enable creative and development teams to deliver content to a large global player base.

The current environment is primarily built around Google Cloud Platform, Node.js/TypeScript and serverless technologies, but you don’t need experience with every part of the existing stack.

The team is particularly interested in engineers with strong backend and cloud fundamentals who can understand an existing environment, identify opportunities for improvement and apply pragmatic engineering principles.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript
• Work with cloud and serverless infrastructure, including services such as Cloud Run and Cloud Functions
• Improve the security of backend services, including authentication, authorisation and secrets management
• Help strengthen the separation and management of development, staging and production environments
• Improve the reliability, performance and cost efficiency of cloud infrastructure
• Develop and improve internal tools and pipelines used by writers, artists and development teams
• Support improvements to deployment, CI/CD and infrastructure practices
• Review existing architecture and recommend pragmatic improvements
• Provide technical guidance and code reviews to other developers
• Work closely with technical and non-technical colleagues to understand problems and develop practical solutions

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone with:

• Strong professional experience in backend and/or cloud development
• Production-level experience with TypeScript and Node.js
• Commercial experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or another major cloud platform such as AWS or Azure
• Experience designing, building and maintaining APIs and backend services
• A good understanding of cloud and API security, including authentication, authorisation and secrets management
• Experience working with serverless or containerised applications
• An understanding of modern deployment and infrastructure practices
• Strong problem-solving skills and the confidence to work with an existing architecture and recommend improvements
• Good communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts to colleagues from different disciplines

Nice to Have

Experience with any of the following would be beneficial:

• GCP Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, API Gateway or Cloud Storage
• Firebase
• Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code technologies
• Docker
• AWS
• Google Apps Script
• Python
• CI/CD pipelines
• PlayFab or Azure CloudScript
• Sentry
• Unity/C# integrations
• Live-service mobile games or other high-traffic consumer applications
• Building internal tools for non-technical users

What Matters Most

You don’t need to have worked with every technology in the existing stack. If your experience is primarily with AWS or Azure rather than GCP, for example, we’d still encourage you to apply. The key is having strong backend engineering and cloud fundamentals, along with the ability to learn new technologies quickly and identify practical ways to improve systems.

The Studio

You’ll be joining an ambitious, remote-first games studio creating choice-based narrative mobile games for a global audience. The studio has an established portfolio of successful mobile titles and is continuing to expand its products, technology and development capabilities. This is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the backend technology, infrastructure and tools supporting live games and the teams building them.

This is a fully remote role open to candidates based across the UK and Europe.

If you’re a senior backend/cloud engineer looking for an opportunity to work on the technology behind live games, we’d be keen to hear from you.