python developer for mobile games
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Summary
Backend Python developer at King (maker of Candy Crush) building and maintaining Python services and APIs that power forecasting, analytics, and business decision-making for mobile games. Day-to-day work spans distributed processing pipelines, relational database optimization, internal web apps, and containerized cloud deployments integrated with King/Microsoft ecosystems.
Описание: King is an interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, known for games including the Candy Crush franchise and Farm Heroes Saga. Around 200 million people play a King game every month.
Задачи:
- Design, develop, and maintain Python backend services and APIs
- Build scalable applications that support forecasting, analytics, and business decision-making
- Develop distributed processing pipelines and asynchronous workloads
- Design and optimize relational OLTP databases, data models, and query performance
- Build and maintain data processing, analytical, and forecasting workflows
- Develop and maintain internal web applications and intuitive interfaces for technical and non-technical users
- Integrate services with King and Microsoft ecosystems, including identity, collaboration, communication, and productivity platforms
- Develop and maintain APIs and connectors for interoperability between internal and external systems
- Deploy, monitor, and operate containerized applications in cloud-native environments
- Contribute to technical designs, architectural discussions, and engineering best practices
- Improve system reliability, observability, performance, and operational excellence
- Deliver high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code
- Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing initiatives
- Support CI/CD pipelines and automation throughout the software development lifecycle
Требования:
- Strong Python development experience in production environments
- Experience building backend services and APIs
- Understanding of modern web application development and ability to contribute across the stack when needed
- Solid understanding of asynchronous programming, concurrency, and distributed systems
- Experience designing and optimizing relational databases
- Experience building data-intensive applications and processing large datasets
- Experience with background processing, job orchestration, or distributed workloads
- Experience deploying and operating applications in containerized and cloud-native environments
- Familiarity with CI/CD practices and automation pipelines
- Strong testing, debugging, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skillsfamiliarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana or Sentry
- experience improving application performance and scalability in production environments
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