Job Application for Senior Backend Engineer, TypeScript/Node.js at Tactile Games

It’s an exciting time to join Tactile. We're a diverse team of storytellers, puzzle enthusiasts and casual mobile game creators. Our story began in 2008 in the heart of beautiful Copenhagen, and since then we have experienced continuous growth, establishing ourselves as one of the largest gaming companies in Denmark. In more recent years, we have been scaling fast, in big part thanks to the success of a little game called Lily’s Garden. Now we’re on a mission to solidify our position as one of the leaders in creating out-of-the-ordinary casual puzzle games.

With more than 350 talented individuals, we are a mix of over 55 nationalities and 43% women. We truly appreciate the richness of different experiences and perspectives that Tactilers bring to the game. This is why we foster a lean organisational culture, in which each individual is encouraged to take responsibility, be open and grow in their own way. We pride ourselves in cultivating a studio environment that stays away from crunch, that fosters your skills no matter what your discipline is, and one that gives you a place to be creative alongside other passionate and invested storytellers.

🚀 Your role & impact:

We are currently growing our Core Team and are on the search for an experienced Backend Engineer to join the team of talented engineers supporting our live game operations (LiveOps).

The Core team at Tactile is responsible for building our entire backend infrastructure - all the tools, platforms and systems which are used to manage our game, data and marketing operations. As a Backend Engineer within our Core LiveOps team, you will be working on the business critical LiveOps dashboard, which is used by different teams within the business to evaluate and improve their day-to-day operations. You will also be creating new features and functionalities on our Game Web Services, which are important for improving players' in-game experiences, as well as working on our Build Server, the internal CI/CD solution for deploying our games.

We use a variety of technologies for our backend services. Our platform is written in TypeScript and Node.js, with MongoDB and BigQuery as the storage components. We use React to build our client side front-end. Strong knowledge of these technologies along with others that are similar is a great asset to this role.

📍 This role is based in our Copenhagen office. Please note that we cannot offer relocation support or visa sponsorship for this role.

Okay, let’s get a little bit more specific.

Here’s what you’ll be doing on the day-to-day as a Backend Engineer on our Core team:

Building new features and functionalities for for the tools and systems supporting our game development processes
Building and automating new games related systems
Improving, extending and monitoring back and front-end tools
Gaining a thorough understanding of the different shared backend technologies, and how they interact
Contributing to our data warehouse and analytics systems

To keep it short & sweet, as a part of our Core team, you'll be working with a modern stack:

TypeScript, Node.js & Express.js (as our main language and frameworks)
REST APIs
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes
CircleCI
MongoDB & Redis
BigQuery (for our big data pipelines)
DataDog (monitoring system)
Airflow
React.js
... and more! We do not expect you to know everything about this stack (we're not looking for unicorns), what matters most is that you enjoy working with and learning new technologies.

Practices & principles we cannot live without:

Clean coding practices
Code reviews
OOP
SOLID principles
Test driven development (TDD) & unit testing
Dependency Injection

What we're looking for:

🔥 Extensive experience (5+ years) in backend development with TypeScript and Node.js
Experience in working with high-load traffic systems
Experience in working within a bigger development team (4+ developers)
It's great if you also have experience with or an interest in working with front-end

What’s in it for you?

🌆 Beautiful office space with probably the best view in Copenhagen
🩺 Pension and private health insurance
💻 A chance to work with the latest tools and technology
📚 Opportunities for individual growth with development talks as well as workshops, books and courses
🌮 Daily, healthy organic breakfast and lunch prepared by our professional chefs in-house
🥳 Social activities, including game nights, book club, Friday bar and more
🔍 Free Danish lessons with our in-house Danish teacher

Our interview process

Submit your application via the fill-in form at the top of this page. This is the easiest and fastest way to get in touch with our recruiters. We foster an inclusive culture and accessible workplace and want to make sure we provide everyone with the same opportunities for success. This is why we encourage you to apply regardless of your gender, sexuality, age, nationality, neurodiversity or disability. We review applications based on competencies and experience, so please do tell us about your favourite projects and technologies.

After we review your application, you can expect to go through the following steps:

☕ Introductory coffee chat with one of our Recruiters to align on the scope of the role and to answer all your questions

🧪 A take-home coding test, to see your skills in action

🤝 Technical interview with Gabriel, our Core team lead, and Juan, our LiveOps Backend Lead, during which you will discuss your test solutions and the more technical aspects of the role

💜 A final interview with your potential future team members, to make sure you're aligned on effective team collaboration and ways of working

We are pretty thorough with our hiring process. It is important to us that we choose new Tactilers carefully - just as it is vital to ensure that we are the right place for you.‍

We want to ensure you have a great candidate experience whilst in our recruitment process. We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please let us know.

We look forward to receiving your application! 👋

Senior Backend Engineer, TypeScript/Node.js