Platform Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Platform Engineer based in United Kingdom.

As a Platform Engineer, you’ll build and maintain the backend services powering a diverse portfolio of mobile games. Your work will span analytics, social features, gifting, leaderboards, LiveOps tooling, and other shared platform capabilities. You’ll develop production-grade Python services and REST APIs that can be integrated across multiple products. The role combines hands-on engineering with ownership of observability, deployments, and operational reliability. You’ll work closely with SDK engineers and other technical stakeholders to create robust API contracts and integrations. In a remote-first environment, you’ll have the autonomy to influence platform architecture while contributing directly to products used by a broad player community.

Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain production backend services in Python, including REST APIs, data models, and asynchronous workers.
• Build and contribute to platform features designed to be integrated across multiple games and products.
• Design, implement, and maintain reliable APIs and backend systems that meet the needs of different game teams.
• Ensure strong observability for owned services through effective logging, metrics, and basic alerting.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for the services you release into production, including their reliability and operational performance.
• Work directly with SDK engineers to align API contracts, technical requirements, and integration approaches.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, architecture decisions, and delivery planning.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and broader operational engineering practices.
• Write and maintain automated tests as an integral part of the development lifecycle.
• Help improve the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of the shared platform as the product portfolio evolves.

Requirements

• 2-4 years of professional backend development experience, including hands-on experience with production systems.
• Strong production-level Python skills and practical experience building maintainable backend services.
• Proven experience designing, developing, and deploying REST APIs.
• Practical experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL.
• Experience with NoSQL technologies such as DynamoDB or Redis.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, including EC2, RDS/DynamoDB, S3, SQS, IAM, and Redshift.
• Experience working with Docker and a solid foundational understanding of CI/CD practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI or GitHub Actions.
• Strong testing practices and a habit of treating automated tests as an essential part of software development.
• Ability to take ownership of production systems and proactively address reliability or operational concerns.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly when working across engineering disciplines.
• Comfortable contributing to technical discussions, code reviews, planning sessions, and architectural decisions.

Benefits

• Personalized benefit budget through a flexible benefit-café system, which can be used for insurance, education, fitness, or other areas supporting your well-being and work-life balance.
• Performance bonuses recognizing meaningful results, initiative, excellence, teamwork, and measurable impact.
• Fully remote-first working model, with remote work treated as the standard rather than the exception.
• High level of autonomy with minimal bureaucracy and the opportunity to bring your own technical ideas to life.
• Professional development opportunities, including learning initiatives, internal training, and strategic sessions.
• Collaborative team culture focused on shared ownership and collective success.
• Opportunity to make a direct contribution to the technology platform supporting a portfolio of mobile games.