Senior Backend Developer | Shared Tech | 12 month FTC

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to provide temporary cover within King’s Game Platform Data team. The team provides King’s telemetry platform, enabling our games to define, capture, validate, transport, and manage player-event data so it can be trusted by analytics and downstream systems.  

You will help ensure continuity across backend development, operational support, and key strategic initiatives. 

This is a hands-on role for an experienced engineer who can take ownership of reliable services and integrations, collaborate closely with product and engineering partners, and make sound technical decisions in a fast-moving environment. 

Your role within the Kingdom

• Build, maintain, and improve backend services and platform capabilities that support Telemetry Data. 

• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues; participate in operational support and improve service reliability. 

• Work with engineers, data teams, product partners, and game teams to clarify requirements and deliver pragmatic solutions. 

• Review code, contribute to technical design, and promote strong engineering practices for quality, observability, and maintainability. 

• Document systems, decisions, and operational procedures to support effective handover and team continuity. 

Skills to create thrills

• Significant professional experience as a backend or platform engineer, including ownership of production systems. 

• Strong software-engineering fundamentals: designing maintainable services, writing high-quality code, testing, debugging, and code review. 

• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, and Streaming pipelines. 

• A strong operational mindset, including incident investigation, monitoring, and reliability improvements. 

• Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical partners. 

• A collaborative approach and willingness to support a team through a time-bound transition.