Principal Backend Engineer, Mistplay
3 days a week in office
Loyalty app for mobile gamers
Job no longer available
Loyalty app for mobile gamers
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be the best way to play mobile games for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
- 10+ years experience working in an engineering driven product organization, at least 2 of which leading complex technical initiatives
- Strong knowledge running production grade APIs in a cloud native environment (AWS)
- Strong knowledge in DynamoDB or similar no-sql database
- Great verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to lead technical discussions, and keep them on track/point
- Experience and knowledge at the framework level: ExpressJs, NestJS (an asset)
- Experience with Python (an asset)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and related container technologies (an asset)
- Specifically knowledge of running APIs on ECR/EKS (an asset)
- IOS, Android or Progressive WebApp experience (an asset)
What the job involves
- As a Principal Backend Engineer at Mistplay, you will play a critical role in defining the technical architecture to be able to support the continued growth of the business
- You will be working with a diverse and talented team of software engineers, product managers and designers to understand and implement product and engineering driven initiatives
- Act as the technical subject matter expert to ensure technical capabilities align with our Product team to ensure technical initiatives are well align with our Product roadmap
- Determining and developing pragmatic and achievable refactoring initiatives. Ensure that our BE engineering members are on the same way
- Developing and designing highly scalable features and systems
- Identifying possible risks and dependencies in our projects and mitigating them
- Breaking down complex technical epics into executable engineering tasks
- Working with our DevOps team to create an efficient CI/CD pipeline to ensure we can push code to production reliably, confidently
- Leading code reviews, ensuring that we are growing our codebase in a performant, scalable, maintainable way
- Run frequent knowledge transfer, lunch & learn sessions with our engineering members to set best practices, and foster a healthy engineering culture
Our take
Customer retention in mobile gaming can lead to increased ad revenue and more immersive experiences. Mistplay is a loyalty program helping publishers achieve a higher hit rate on their games, whilst simultaneously rewarding gamers for their loyalty.
Its loyalty programme involves curated game recommendation libraries and rewards for partaking in challenges and tournaments. Publishers gain increased ad revenue for partnering with Mistplay, as well as the chance to capitalise on a 6 million+ user base. Indeed, Mistplay has grown significantly since its launch in 2016, resulting in a buyout by GrowthCurve Capital in 2021.
Whilst it mainly focused on Android devices up until 2025, the release of Mistplay for iPhone marks a step up for the company. Its advertising and loyalty programmes can now reach an even larger consumer base, indicating a promising future for the pioneering ad and gaming platform.
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Company
Company HQ
International District, Montreal, QC
Leadership
Henri-Charles Machalani
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Henri is also an Investor at Groq and a Board Member at Sami Agtech.
Eugene Joannides
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Eugene is also an Investor at Attain, DataGPT and GENAIZ, and a Limited Partner at GrowthCurve Capital. He previously studied Finance at Concordia University.
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