Scopely is looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Monopoly GO! team and work from Sevilla 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.

Monopoly GO! is our new casual game and a key franchise that has just become Scopely’s largest game, enjoyed by millions of players. The team is based in Europe and the US, and works every day to create captivating new experiences for our players.

What You Will Do
You will have the opportunity to lead & work in one of our game teams, developing new features with our talented team and contributing to a game that is played by millions of players around the world. You will be responsible for:

• Lead a team of Engineers, setting clear expectations and providing continuous feedback, coaching, and mentoring to ensure success and growth
• Working closely with feature owners, the game design team and other development teams to implement new features and technological pipelines for Monopoly GO!
• Driving the implementation of online game mechanics and system processes using Unity and C#
• Ensuring technical performance is “Best-in-Class” throughout development
• Writing automated, high-quality tests (unit, integration,load, etc.) and working with QA teams to improve gameplay experience, curtail exploits and ensure that everything works smoothly
• Reviewing Technical Design Documents and provide feedback and guidance to other engineers
• Collaborating and communicating with cross-functional departments including: game design, qa, etc.
• Participating in a strong engineering team and culture
• Live game support & troubleshooting
• Contributing to technical plans and discussing the workflows and requirements with stakeholders
• Implementing tools to empower our liveops and game design teams in the creation of new and exciting game-play experiences

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years as part of a professional game development team or other relevant area
• BA or Computing Degree
• Experience managing people, driving 1:1s and performance reviews, doing follow ups and providing regular feedback to direct reports
• Experience driving and leading the technical execution of complex and interdisciplinary developments
• Mastery of C# or another OO language, including experience with asynchronous and multi-threaded programming paradigms
• Experience with and knowledge of Unity Game Engine or a similar technology (i.e. Unreal Engine)
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing (AWS, GCP...) and low-latency, high-scale distributed systems
• Strong computer science and engineering fundamentals (data structures, concurrency, design patterns, algorithms)
• Strong understanding of game framework architecture at scale, maintainability over time, robust API design, etc.
• Strong knowledge of application design best patterns and practices; understanding of maintainability concerns when designing and implementing applications, both for server and client
• Solid understanding of mobile networking best practices: request limiting, request caching, batching, content aggregation, minification, integrating with rest and TCP/UDP services, etc.
• Experience with asynchronous, multi-threaded, parallel programming paradigms and other techniques to maximize UI responsiveness and do operations in background
• Experience and understanding around client-side testing, like unit, functional or integration testing
• Enjoy solving complex technical problems, especially in large systems
• Willingness to learn and work with new technologies
• You’re a great tech communicator who knows how to share knowledge with non-technical people
• You have a desire to seek out and take on user feedback to drive world class application development
• A passion for games

Bonus Points

• Experience building your own games as personal projects or game jams
• Experience with asset pipelines: asset bundles, dependency management, etc
• Mobile experience (iOS and Android): ability to debug native device issues, strong understanding of hardware and platform limitations, performance metrics, etc
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kibana, Ansible
• Experience with automated testing

Scopely is looking for a Senior Engineer to serve on and elevate our new casual game, Monopoly GO! team and work from Sevill 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.    

The Monopoly GO! team is one of our key franchises and has just become one of Scopely’s largest games.  The teams sit globally, with the bulk of their members located throughout Spain and the US.

What You Will Do

• Working closely with feature owners, the game design team and other development teams to implement new features within a feature team
• Work with game client developers to implement networked communications between game client and server
• Design and develop our game server and associated tools and libraries, with a focus on performance, scalability and consistency
• Write automated, high-quality tests (unit, integration etc.) and work with QA teams to improve gameplay experience, curtail exploits and ensure that everything works smoothly
• Implement tools to empower our liveops and game design teams in the creation of new and exciting game-play experiences 

What We're Looking For   

• 5+ years as part of a professional game development team or other relevant area
• BA or Computing Degree
• Strong computer science and engineering fundamentals (data structures, concurrency, design patterns, algorithms)
• Mastery of Unity and  C# or another OO language, including experience with asynchronous and multi-threaded programming paradigms
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing (AWS, GCP...) and low-latency, high-scale distributed systems
• Knowledge of Unix-like operating systems
• Experience with Redis (or other database systems), ORMs and migration scripts
• Ability to write efficient low-latency, low-IO code
• Good understanding of how to prevent intrusions, injections, cheating etc.

Bonus Points 

• Familiar with highly available back-end systems and servers for games
• Web development on a modern framework such as React or Angular
• AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kibana, Chef, Ansible
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with stateful and stateless game server architectures

At Scopely, we believe in creating a supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect and inclusivity. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other protected status.   

Mission of the role

You will be part of the team responsible for operating one of the largest and most complex hosting platforms in Europe.

Your mission will be to ensure the stability, performance, and evolution of the Stretch platform, working directly on critical production systems and contributing to the continuous improvement of a highly distributed infrastructure.

This is a strongly technical role with hands-on impact at scale, where your work will directly influence service quality and platform evolution.

You will collaborate closely with Hosting Technology teams and other web hosting teams within IONOS, with frequent interaction with international colleagues—particularly in Germany—to consolidate knowledge of existing systems.

 Responsibilities

• Operation, maintenance, and evolution of large-scale Linux infrastructure.
• Advanced (Level 3) support for complex platform incidents.
• Automation of processes using scripting (BASH, Python) and infrastructure tools.
• Operation and management of distributed storage systems (Ceph).
• Monitoring and analysis of the platform using observability tools (Grafana and similar).
• Continuous improvement of system architecture and stability.
• Collaboration with international teams to absorb knowledge from legacy systems.
• Participation in on-call rotation.

 Professional profile

Must have

• +3 years of experience in Linux system administration.
• Strong scripting skills in BASH and Python.
• Experience with configuration and automation tools:
  • Puppet or SaltStack
  • Ansible or Terraform
• Hands-on experience operating Ceph storage clusters in production environments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana.
• Fluent English, required for international communication.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Experience with container technologies (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in highly distributed or high-availability environments.

Soft skills

• Technical curiosity and continuous learning mindset.
• Ability to work in complex environments with incomplete documentation.
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Team player in international environments.
• Proactive attitude to independently build technical context.
• Participation in an on-call rotation (approx. 1 week every 6).

 Benefits

• Hybrid working model across any of the Arsys offices in Logroño, Alcobendas, Valencia, Barcelona, or Seville, with broad flexible working hours aligned with team coordination needs.
• Opportunity to work on one of the most advanced and large-scale hosting platforms in Europe.
• Direct exposure to highly complex distributed systems at significant scale.
• International technical environment with cross-country collaboration.
• Participation in critical projects with direct impact on service stability.
• Continuous training and professional development within a global technology organization.

At Arsys we value diversity and welcome all applications regardless of, for example, gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion, disability, age, as well as sexual orientation and identity, physical characteristics, marital status or any other irrelevant factor subject to applicable law.