Location:

• London – onsite – full-time, permanent
• This role can be based either in Helsinki or London.

Job Title:

• Senior Server Engineer, Hay Day

Role Overview:

As a Server Engineer at Supercell, you'll be embedded in a game team, working closely with other game developers and focusing on making sure that our hundreds of millions of monthly players get the best, most uninterrupted experience possible. Depending on the game and your own interests, you can focus more on the general game server infrastructure or new game feature development – and sometimes you do both.

Communication between server engineers in different game teams is absolutely vital to our success. Our server engineers frequently share learnings, both successes and failures, across game teams to make each team better.

If you have experience in developing live systems and using virtualized computing, and you understand what it means to support a system with large user volumes, you might just be the person we're looking for!

Responsibilities:

• Design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of highly scalable and available backends for live games
• Contribute to best practices on reliability and availability
• Troubleshoot and tune high-volume sharded database systems
• Periodically offer round-the-clock, first-line support to the production environments, as part of a rotating on-call duty
• Contribute to game design discussions as game teams are typically small

Requirements:

• Excellent Java programming skills, including experience with server-side Java, concurrency handling, and distributed systems
• Good experience with Linux shell and scripting languages
• Database design and implementation skills, and good SQL knowledge
• Experience with cloud computing (e.g. AWS) and Terraform
• Being passionate and committed to tasks; autonomous with high levels of initiative and energy
• An open and respectful attitude towards others and their work

Nice-to-haves:

• Knowledge of network protocols and non-blocking IO
• Previous working experience on high-throughput live systems is a big plus
• Prior experience in game development is a plus but not required
• Experience in server development without application servers

Benefits and Compensation:

We structure our compensation and benefits to help you do your best work and enjoy your time here. Read More

About Supercell:

We are a games company based in Helsinki, Finland, with offices in San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and London. Since our launch in 2010, we've released games including Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, Squad Busters, and mo.co. Our mission is to create great games that as many people as possible play for years and that are remembered forever. Read More

You Might Love It Here...

We are made up of proactive, independent teams that have the freedom to do what they think is best for their players. We take good care of our people, providing compensation, work environment and resources needed to succeed and have fun. Read More

You Are Not Your Job Title:

Working with us means you won’t need to focus on chasing titles or climbing ladders. For hiring purposes we use industry-standard job titles to help attract talent. Read More

Relocation:

This position is in London; our dedicated mobility team will support you throughout your move. Read More

Application:

Interested? Then just apply here using the on-page application form. We accept PDF, DOC, DOCX, JPG and PNG files.

Application Note:

Not sure if you should apply? Do it! You might feel like you don't tick all the listed requirements — that's fine. We're happy to learn about any specific accommodations you might require to fully engage in our recruitment process.