Backend Developer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 17, 2026.
Job Description
Miniclip is looking for a Backend Developer to hire in our Lisbon (Portugal) Games Development Studio.
This is an exciting opportunity for a software developer to integrate into an agile, highly effective, and skilled team. You will be working with the team that is responsible for the development and operation of the Multiplayer Mobile Game Backend Applications and Infrastructure that support our tens of millions of users!
This is a full-time, permanent, hybrid position.
What will you be doing at Miniclip?
Your work will include:
- Designing, developing, maintaining, and operating robust and scalable back-end systems by using, extending, and improving existing in-house technology
- Finding the best solutions to implement, and tools to adopt, for the technological challenges the systems and processes face
- Experience in managing migrations of legacy systems
- Participating in team activities to develop new concepts for game modes, promotional campaigns, temporary events, and in-game content
- Working together with a multi-disciplinary and highly motivated agile Scrum development team, including backend and client developers, quality assurance testers, release managers, and others
- Proactively addressing opportunities and needs by supporting the development of new features and resolving bugs and limitations within internal systems
What are we looking for?
We are looking for a social, humble, hard-working, and autonomous person, thus we need you to be self-motivated, dedicated, result-oriented, and accountable for the areas of your responsibilities. You must be a team player who actively seeks opportunities for self-development, takes pride in your work, and engages with the team to improve together.
The ideal candidate will possess the following skills:
- Prior professional experience in software development for networked back-end/server systems in a UNIX/Linux/POSIX environment
- Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, Go (Golang), Erlang, Elixir or PHP
- Experience managing high-capacity web servers
- Experience with requirements analysis and dimensioning
- Excellent problem-solving skills through analytical, systematical, or intuitive approaches
- A strong curiosity and commitment to continuously learning new skills, exploring innovative approaches, and enhancing product and code quality
- Proficiency in both written and spoken English
The following skills are desirable but not essential (if you have them, don’t forget to mention them):
- Experience with cloud infrastructure design and operation
- Chef
- Packer
- Cloudformation and related technologies
- AWS
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with dependency management systems for PHP
- Composer
- Autoloader techniques such as PSR-0 or PSR-4
- Experience with caching engines
- Memcached
- Redis
Don't forget to share with us all of your relevant training and certifications.
About Miniclip
About Miniclip
Miniclip is a global leader in games and one of the world's biggest developers and publishers of mobile games, with a mission of unleashing the gamer in everyone. It distributes highly engaging games to a global audience of over 450 million monthly and 60 million daily active users across mobile, PC, console, social, and online platforms. Operating in 15 countries, Miniclip develops and launches games in multiple categories across its 22 studios.
Founded in 2001 with an internationally recognised brand name, Miniclip has successfully grown a global audience across 195 countries and six continents. It has a unique understanding of the games space, developing and distributing a strong portfolio of over 60 high-quality mobile games globally.
To date, Miniclip’s studios and companies have generated more than 12 billion downloads, including the following games: 8 Ball Pool, Subway Surfers, Golf Battle, Football Strike, Carrom Pool, OSM - Online Soccer Manager™, Football Rivals , Pure Sniper , Puzzle Page™, Head Ball 2, Motorsport Manager, Darts of Fury, Mini Football, Triple Match 3D™, Agar.io, PowerWash Simulator, Sudoku.com™, and We Are Warriors™.
For more information, visit https://miniclip.com/