🎮 Lead Back-End Developer - Mobile Games

Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
Starting date: August 31, 2025
Fully-remote
Experience: > 5 years

Village People Games
Village People Games

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The position

Job description

As a Lead Back-End Developer, you’ll be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the infrastructure that powers our games and live operations. You’ll play a key role in shaping our architecture and ensuring it’s reliable, scalable, and secure.

What you’ll do

  • Lead the design and implementation of scalable and secure backend systems

  • Collaborate with game developers, product, and data teams to build efficient APIs and services

  • Ensure uptime, performance, and smooth live operations

  • Manage and mentor backend engineers (future hires)

  • Own DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

  • Contribute to technical decisions, architecture reviews, and long-term strategy

What we offer

  • A full-time remote position — no micromanagement, just trust and collaboration

  • A kind, creative, and committed team

  • Quarterly team meetups in Paris (and maybe one day… somewhere warmer 🌴)

  • Real respect for work-life balance (no crunch, no late nights — we mean it)


Preferred experience

đź§© Who you are

  • 5+ years of experience in backend development

  • Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar)

  • Experience with scalable architectures, APIs, and databases

  • Comfortable working in a startup environment: autonomous, proactive, flexible

  • Fluent in English

  • You live in France, Spain, or another CET-friendly country

  • Bonus: experience in mobile gaming or live game infrastructure


Recruitment process

Interview process (to be confirmed)

  • A 30-minute call to get to know each other

  • A technical interview

  • A team conversation

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Apply now — we’re not in a rush, but we’d love to start talking and building our dream team early.

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