Backend Engineer - Elixir

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Our Story

At Wooga, we are very proud of the diverse, creative and friendly environment we have established and we believe you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry. Each of our Woogas plays an important role in our success as a company and in shaping our culture. We really value our razor-sharp focus on story-driven casual games, excellent craftsmanship, truly collaborative way of working, and the values we strive to live up to every day. We create joyful experiences that awaken our players’ desire to see what happens next. Based in the heart of Berlin, with over 300 employees from around the world, we work together to create high-quality casual games with engaging stories at the core of the experience.

About the role

We are looking for someone with a strong engineering background who enjoys building high-quality products used by millions. As a backend engineer at Wooga, you'll enjoy autonomy in decision-making and ensure smooth system operations. There are many learning opportunities and room to define your career path. Our team values diverse engineering backgrounds and supports individual learning styles. We prioritize fast learning, mutual support, and adaptability to changing requirements. With expertise in distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure, we handle high request volumes to support our game teams effectively.

• Develop, maintain and operate APIs and web apps, mainly built with Elixir
• Manage, extend and improve our infrastructure (Kubernetes, AWS)
• Collaborate with tech teams across Wooga on using our services and building new features
• Ensure stability and resilience of our services
• Take part in our team on-call rotation every few weeks (after an extensive onboarding period)

About you

• You have several years of experience as a backend engineer (game industry experience is a plus but not necessary)
• You are a team player and value collaboration
• You know your way around complex systems and know how to work with big codebases.
• Elixir proficiency is essential, though professional experience is not mandatory. What we prioritize is your enthusiasm and eagerness to work with Elixir.

Great if you know:

• Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, Apache Kafka and ElasticSearch
• Hands-on experience using Kubernetes, Helm or Terraform
• AWS Services
• Erlang, Ruby

Please note: Research has shown that some under-represented groups in the gaming industry (eg: women) tend to apply only if they meet every single requirement. Here at Wooga, the desire to learn and the willingness to solve problems are more important to us than your experience on paper. We encourage you to apply even if you do not think that you tick all the boxes - thinking outside of such boxes and embracing the diversity of mindsets and backgrounds is what we believe makes our teams thrive.

Our Promise

• Shape the future! Challenge the status quo and team up with a diverse group of experts (over 57 nationalities!) working on crafting the world’s best games.
• We offer a generous relocation package and home search support if you are not already located in Berlin. Did we mention that we also cooperate with Kindergartens?
• Make use of a significant education budget and extra days off for self-development. Join our meet-ups, talks, brown bag lunches, internal trainings, workshops and many others.
• Enjoy the yoga, mindfulness app, sports and transport subsidies. And a Purpose Day to donate your time to a worthy cause!
• Did you know that German is the third most commonly taught language worldwide? Learn it too! We offer German language classes for you and your significant other.
• With our hybrid work model you will work in the office with your teams twice a week, to encourage in-person collaboration and team bonding. The other three days you can choose if you want to work from home or from the office. We also offer 10 days a year to work from abroad.

At Wooga we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for everyone who works here or with us, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion (or lack thereof) and game preferences. Be yourself, we like you that way!

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