Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - WWE Champions

The role

You will design, build, and evolve backend systems that power core gameplay and live-service operations at scale. You will drive the technical roadmap and support live-ops through incident management and reliability improvements.

What you will do

• Support liveops initiatives and game design releases
• Coordinate with the design team for game updates and content releases
• Lead incident management, reliability hardening, and operational readiness
• Drive the technical roadmap for backend initiatives
• Lead the design and delivery of high-impact features
• Unblock cross-functional teams through mentorship and facilitation
• Contribute to hands-on feature development
• Identify and mitigate technical debt and operational bottlenecks

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience in gaming or large-scale live-service applications
• Deep expertise in backend engineering with high-level server-side languages and frameworks
• Experience collaborating with game client engineers (e.g., Unity/C#)
• Proven track record of designing scalable systems and managing live-service operations
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent) and modern CI/CD practices
• Experience working with content pipelines and performance optimization
• Experience building and supporting player-facing features (progression, social, live events, monetization)
• Strong understanding of the interplay between backend services and Unity clients
• Proven ability to lead technical planning and execution in complex, cross-functional environments
• Experience managing technical roadmaps and balancing feature delivery with system health
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong communication and leadership skills

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Pet insurance
• Paid holidays
• Paid Scopely free days
• Unlimited paid time off
• Equity
• Bonuses

Before you apply

• Please ensure that the résumé/CV you attach is written in English

About the company

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company. They develop, publish, and live-operate a diversified portfolio of mobile, web, PC, and console games.