Position: Senior Backend (Java) Engineer
Company: Svitla Systems
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior Java Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Ukraine. Our client is a leading interactive entertainment and mobile games company. They create and publish a diverse portfolio of immersive experiences based on original and beloved franchises for casual and core gamers worldwide, with over 100M+ users across seven #1 mobile games. The client has global operations in Barcelona, Boulder, Dublin, London, Los Angeles, Seoul, Seville, Singapore, and Tokyo. They are building systems to support millions of players in dozens of top mobile games, helping understand how to improve each title and the in-game experience of each player. They enjoy challenging work but try to find simple solutions. When joining their growing team, you can expect to own your work from ideation and product definition through production deployment and continued feature maturation. They’re looking for people who take pride in their work and see it impact real people. As part of the game platform, you will join a great team of engineers who provide technology to help studios build and operate games faster and better. The standard technology platform, which enables the business to scale to millions of DAU, offers powerful tools to manage and use live games and accelerates development.
**Requirements:**
5+ years of experience with Java. 
Prior experience with microservices.
Strong computer science and engineering fundamentals (data structures, concurrency, design patterns, algorithms).
Experience in building low-latency, highly available web-scale distributed systems (>500k RPM).
Upper-intermediate English.
**Will be a plus:**
Hands-on experience with AWS services.
Cloudformation or similar IaS (Infrastructure as code).
Knowledge of Kubernetes.
Experience in frontend development or Unity.
**Responsibilities:**
Design and build applications that immediately impact all of the game development teams, live operations teams, marketing teams, and the players.
Collaborate closely with the client’s worldwide community of game developers at partner game studios, assisting their integration with the platform and working together to deliver experiences to the players.
Work as part of a small, growing team that supports various game genres and studios, solving far-reaching challenges across the full technology stack.
**We Offer:**
Competitive compensation plan that takes skills and experience into consideration.
Annual performance appraisals.
Possibility to choose your workspace either remote or combination of your home and one of our development offices. 
Projects that use advanced, cutting-edge technologies.
Competitive bonuses for a personal recommendation of new employees.
Vacation time, sick-leaves, national holidays, family supplementary days off.
Comprehensive medical insurance including dental services, massages.
Support for a healthy lifestyle, compensation of sports events.
Maternity leave policy.
A personal loan budget is available for long-term personnel.
Partial compensation of conferences, courses, and English classes.
Free meetups, webinars, and conferences organized by Svitla.
Birthday and New Year presents for personnel, gifts for children.
Fun summer and winter corporate parties and memorable anniversary presents.