Backend Software Engineer

Opportunity for Impact:

Zensar is looking for a Backend Engineer to build and evolve the core services that power our innovative fashion game. In this role, you'll drive the development of high-performance, scalable, and secure backend systems that bring our creative vision to life. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering and DevOps teams to make key architectural decisions, ensuring a seamless and reliable experience for players. From designing efficient APIs to delivering stable live operations, your work will directly shape a vibrant gaming experience that fuses technology, fashion, and fun.

What you will be doing:

• Develop core services that power the game using best practices to ensure performance, scalability,
• and security.
• Peer review teammates’ code to maintain quality and uniformity across the codebase.
• Create and execute unit, functional, and load tests on developed code.
• Write clear documentation and testing notes for QA teams to validate your work.
• Collaborate with backend and DevOps engineers to make architectural decisions for the platform.
• Support server releases and address live operations issues to maintain a bug-free player
• experience.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including kickoffs, standups, retrospectives, and planning.

What you need to have:

• 8+ years of experience working in a modern programming language (DotNet, C#, Python, NodeJs, etc)
• 5+ years’ experience development and support of products with hundreds of thousands of Daily
• Active Users built on services in the cloud (Azure, AWS, etc)
• 5+ years of working with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc)
• Some experience with NoSQL databases (Redis, MongoDB, etc)
• 5+ years working with Agile development practices
• Played a key engineering role on a large-scale game or product.

Nice to Have:

• Game development
• Load and Stress testing
• AI
• Automation
• CI/CD pipelines
• Data Analytic