Senior Server Engineer, Hay Day

We are now looking for an experienced Senior Server Engineer to join the Hay Day team. This role can be based either in Helsinki or London.

As a Server Engineer at Supercell, you'll be embedded in a game team, working closely with other game developers and focusing on making sure that our hundreds of millions of monthly players get the best, most uninterrupted experience possible. Depending on the game and your own interests, you can focus more on the general game server infrastructure or new game feature development – and sometimes you do both.

Communication between server engineers in different game teams is absolutely vital to our success. Our server engineers frequently share learnings, both successes and failures, across game teams to make each team better. You must be humble, pragmatic and willing to admit and explain your mistakes. That way, the next time something goes wrong, we'll all be better prepared.

If you have experience in developing live systems and using virtualized computing, and you understand what it means to support a system with large user volumes, you might just be the person we're looking for!

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of highly scalable and available backends for live games

• Contribute to best practices on reliability and availability

• Troubleshoot and tune high-volume sharded database systems

• Periodically offer round-the-clock, first-line support to the production environments, as part of a rotating on-call duty

• Game teams are typically small, and server engineers will also have the chance to contribute to game design discussions

What You Have

• Excellent Java programming skills, including experience with server-side Java, concurrency handling, and distributed systems

• Good experience with Linux shell and scripting languages

• Database design and implementation skills, and good SQL knowledge

• Experience with cloud computing (e.g. AWS) and Terraform

• Being passionate and committed to tasks, and in general an autonomous person with high levels of initiative and energy

• An open and respectful attitude towards others and their work

Would Be Nice if You Also Had

• Knowledge of network protocols and non-blocking IO

• Previous working experience on high-throughput live systems is a big plus. If absent, then at least a solid appreciation of the challenges involved is expected

• Prior experience in game development is a plus but not required as long as you are passionate about games

• Experience in server development without application servers

Where You’ll Be

You can either work from our office in HelsinLondon!

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That's it about the role! Below, we've gathered some things we feel are important for you to know. Totally optional, but a highly recommended read.

Once you're ready to apply, just send us your application through the form at the bottom of the page.

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About Supercell

Supercell is a games company from Helsinki, Finland, with offices also in San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and London. You might know us as the makers of Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, and Squad Busters. Our mission is to create great games that as many people as possible play for years and that are remembered forever.

So, how do we make great games? By putting together the best teams and giving them the freedom and independence to succeed. And by taking risks, failing, sharing learnings, and killing lots of projects.

Hey, You Might Love It Here!

Independent cells and trust are at the core of our culture. But it takes more than that to make great games. We take good care of our people, providing them with the compensation, work environment, and resources they need to succeed while having fun along the way.

You Are Not Your Job Title ™

Here, you won’t need to focus on chasing titles or climbing ladders. Internally, our job titles don’t include prefixes like Senior, Junior, Principal, or Director. Recognition isn’t tied to your title, as it doesn't define the impact you can have around here.

Benefits and Compensation

Luring you in with glitter, glamour, and gems isn't what we're about. We want you to enjoy your time here fully, so we structure our compensation and benefits with that in mind. It starts with perceiving you as a human being, not a resource.

Relocation? Yes!

No matter where you’re moving from, our dedicated mobility team and partners will support you throughout your move. We’ll ensure the process is as smooth as possible for you and anyone joining you – whether they’re family members of the human or animal kind!

Not Sure if You Should Apply?

Many candidates with great skills and experience second-guess themselves. The bar is high, but if this role excites you, apply! We’re here to help you succeed. Also, we're happy to learn about any specific accommodations you may need to fully engage in our recruitment process.

Wishing you all the best,
The Supercell Recruitment team

P.S.
Here's a video about what Supercell is about.
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