Hybrid Principal Backend Engineer

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About the role

  • Principal Backend Engineer I defining technical architecture at Mistplay, the leading loyalty app for mobile gamers. Collaborating with talented teams to implement engineering initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the technical subject matter expert to ensure technical capabilities align with the Product team and that technical initiatives are well aligned with the Product roadmap.
  • Determine and develop pragmatic, achievable refactoring initiatives and ensure backend engineering team members follow the same approach.
  • Design and develop highly scalable features and systems.
  • Identify risks and dependencies in projects and implement mitigation strategies.
  • Break down complex technical epics into executable engineering tasks.
  • Collaborate with the DevOps team to build an efficient CI/CD pipeline that enables reliable, confident production deployments.
  • Lead code reviews to ensure the codebase remains performant, scalable, and maintainable.
  • Run regular knowledge-transfer and lunch & learn sessions with engineering team members to establish best practices and foster a healthy engineering culture.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 10+ years of experience in an engineering-driven product organization, including at least 2 years leading complex technical initiatives.
  • Strong experience operating production-grade APIs in a cloud-native environment (AWS).
  • Strong knowledge of DynamoDB or a similar NoSQL database.
  • Framework-level experience with Express.js and/or NestJS (an asset).
  • Experience with Python (an asset).
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and related container technologies (an asset).
  • Specific experience running APIs on ECR/EKS (an asset).
  • Experience with iOS, Android, or Progressive Web Apps is an asset.

Benefits

  • Team lunches
  • Game nights
  • Company-wide events

Job title

Principal Backend Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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