Senior Backend Developer (python)

About Game Analytics

GameAnalytics is a leading analytics tool for anyone building a mobile game. Our platform helps everyone in the industry, from indie developers, to growing games studios, to global publishers. Our network includes more than 100k games, which are played by north of 2 billion people each month. That’s more than ⅓ of the world’s mobile gamers. What’s our mission? To help game developers make the right decisions based on data. And by joining our team, you’ll be working on new and innovative products to help tens of thousands of people in the industry do just that.

About the team

You will join our backend API development team, currently working out of our Copenhagen office. Together you’ll be working on some of our most critical APIs handling authentication, authorisation and the business logic for all our users, studios & games, providing the backbone that powers our web application. We work using a modern development stack (Python 3, MySQL, Terraform, ECS/Fargate), use cloud technologies (AWS, GCP) and we value simplicity, code quality, automation; with the aim of iterating fast and delivering value. We have major new product offerings in development and the team will be involved in all areas of planning, designing and development.

What we are looking for

• As an experienced developer you will be a key contributor involved in planning, designing and developing current and new product offerings.
• Making sure we build the right thing at the right time. We value the ability to make reasonable and informed decisions with minimal supervision.
• Be able to take ownership (together with the other team members) of several APIs (currently based on Python), our main user management database or any future production critical systems.
• Managing AWS resources and deployment procedures in collaboration with our other engineering teams.
• Keeping code quality high using code reviews (pull requests) and documented coding standards.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate well with other teams, including product and support.
• Understanding of business processes and data governance implications, when working with customer accounts.
• Train, coach and support hiring of team members.