About this Senior Software Engineer- Backend role at Scopely
Scopely is looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our WWE Champions team in Bangalore on a hybrid basis!
At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
WWE Champions is our ultimate and unique RPG puzzle match game featuring WWE superstars and legends across mobile and PC platforms. WWE Champions is the most downloaded WWE game to date, with a highly engaged and passionate community.
Role Summary
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and evolve backend systems that power core gameplay and live-service operations at scale. You will take ownership of complex technical problems, improve system reliability and performance, and help guide engineering quality across the team while partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the design, development, and long-term maintenance of backend systems that support core gameplay, live events, progression, rewards, social features, and platform capabilities.
- Own complex technical areas across APIs, game logic, async processing, caching, persistence, and operational tooling.
- Design and deliver scalable, maintainable server-side solutions within a large Python and Django codebase serving a live game.
- Drive improvements to system reliability, performance, code health, observability, and developer workflows.
- Architect and evolve asynchronous job systems, scheduled event workflows, and backend processes that support live game operations.
- Partner with product, design, QA, analytics, and engineering leadership to shape technical solutions and execution plans for high-impact features.
- Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, debugging support, and hands-on technical guidance.
- Identify technical debt, operational risks, and scaling bottlenecks, and proactively drive improvements.
- Support live service excellence by helping investigate incidents, improve operational readiness, and harden production systems.
What We’re Looking For
Experience & Technical Skills
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in the gaming industry, live-service products, or large-scale backend systems.
- Deep backend engineering expertise in Python and object-oriented programming.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining scalable backend systems, internal platforms, and RESTful APIs.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, and backend integration patterns.
- Hands-on experience with Redis, DynamoDB, and data modeling for high-throughput, performance-sensitive applications.
- Proven experience designing and supporting asynchronous job systems, scheduled workflows, and event-driven backend processes.
- Strong experience debugging complex production issues and improving system performance, scalability, and resilience.
- Familiarity with Docker and cloud infrastructure, especially AWS-based systems and development workflows.
- Strong grasp of algorithms, data structures, system design, and engineering tradeoffs in long-lived production systems.
- Experience improving code quality, testing practices, and maintainability across large shared codebases.
Cross-Functional and Game-Specific Knowledge
- Experience building backend systems for gameplay features, progression, rewards, social systems, live events, or other player-facing live-service functionality.
- Exposure to integrating game clients such as Unity with backend services.
- Strong understanding of analytics, telemetry, operational tooling, and live-ops execution in a live game environment.
- Experience working closely with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver features that balance player experience, speed, and technical quality.
- Comfortable operating in Agile/Scrum environments and helping teams execute effectively through ambiguity.
Soft Skills & Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical decisions to both technical and non-technical partners.
- Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership experience.
- Collaborative, pragmatic, and highly accountable, with strong ownership of outcomes.
- Passion for games, player experience, and building high-quality live services.
About Scopely
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Niantic games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.
Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/.
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