Senior Backend Engineer

We are more than thrilled to announce that we are helping our dear friends from **Elixir Games** on their quest to find a **Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)** to join them on their mission to make gaming a next-gen adventure. Sounds like you? Keep reading **WHAT IS ELIXIR GAMES?**: Elixir is **the leading web3 game distribution platform**. Focusing on quality pc games, it has partnered with over 80 major titles, and is targeting the broad web2 and web3 markets to led the next generation gaming wave. Elixir Games is becoming the Steam of web3, by **integrating both traditional and web3 games in the most advanced and popular distribution platform at global scale.** On top of gaming and social features from most popular launchers, Elixir integrates **multi-chain compatibility, integration of largest marketplaces, Click&Play** and a lot more to enjoy an augmented gaming experience. **WHY ARE YOU GOING TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM?**: Having already secured the top position in functionality, content, and creator base thanks to their talented team's hard work over the past four years, Elixir is now looking to **consolidate their leadership and onboard an additional 1 million users**. To achieve this, they are strengthening their development team. Elixir has an **industry-leading team of game and infrastructure veterans** who provide expert-level guidance from concept through to implementation. It is also **the only cross-chain solution in the market for the distribution and installation of Web3 PC games**, designed to meet all the requirements for Web3 games, including importing NFTs from main marketplaces, multi-wallet connection for a click&play experience, token-based referral system, and more. Elixir Games has won the **first prize of the startup contest in Bitcoin 2021 Conference** and has been chosen by Binance as one of the seven startups to participate in its **"Most Valuable Builder" Accelerator Program IV**. **WHAT IS GOING TO BE YOUR MISSION THERE?**: They are specifically searching for a **Senior** **Backend Engineer** with great experience in their stack and similar B2C platforms. Some of the tasks you'll be doing: - Help their support teams by providing **operational information**, debugging corner cases, and enhance their logging and monitoring practices. **WHAT DO YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL?**: They're a small team and expect you to be able to wear many hats, **take ownership and improve whatever you find needs to be improved**. They use Agile methodologies without the dogma and are always open to hear / try about new tech you may bring to the table. Needless to say, curiosity and a desire to keep learning and improving is a must in this industry. **Required experience** As a **Senior Backend Engineer**, they expect the following experience. You don't need to check all the items, but the more the better. - Min 3 years in real projects. Having experience in projects with **high data volume**, real time connections and security will be highly valued. - Good taste for architecture and clean code, without dogmas. - Real, hands-on experience with **MongoDB**: advanced queries, indexing, data modeling, migrations, performance. - Inter-process/service communication based on events/message passing. - Performance tuning, caching with Redis, monitoring. - **CI/CD pipelines**: building Docker images, deploying on Cloud environments. Github Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines or similar. - Knowledge of any other programming language and environment is a plus, they believe every experience adds value. - Being **familiar with project management** and development flows using Agile / light Scrum. Again, they're not dogmatic about this. - A plus is that you’re **familiar with Web3** technologies. - Being a team player Participate in Code Reviews, pair programming, help with task definition and refinement. - Optional but useful, some frontend knowledge of the frontend stack React, Next.js to be able to coordinate with the frontend team. **HOW IS THE HIRING PROCESS GOING TO BE?**: - 1st step: A videocall with their COO + either someone from the dev team or the CEO, to align job expectations and assess technical knowledge and previous experience. - 2nd step: A tech test. - 3rd step: Technical interview focused on challenge feedback & technical skills validation. **PERKS? PLENTY**: Salary according to demonstrable knowledge, experience and capacity, ranging from **45 - 60K €** / year and participation in the company **stock plan**. **Flexible hours policy** with some central hours around GMT+1 that you should be available at, in order to better communicate and sync with the team. A **100% remote** team with people in Western Europe, South Asia and LatAm. **23 paid vacation days.** A thriving startup environment with the one the most and diverse tech stacks available right now, including disrupting technologies from Web3 space. Training budget will be available to further your knowledge in new technologi