
Infrastructure
Pocket Gems wants to build the greatest games and interactive entertainment in the world.
That’s the mission our founders began within an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009
and we continue it today.
Pocket Gems has grown to over 250 people in San Francisco. With $155 million in backing from
Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground with graphically rich mobile
games, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobilefirst Mantis Engine.
Our products have been downloaded over 325 million times by players around the world. We
have several flagship products including the most recent - Adventure Chef Merge Explorer, a
casual merge and explore game. Some of our other ongoing hits include Episode, a mobile
storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy
game.
Pocket Gems is home to some of the most massive and delightful mobile-first games, like War
Dragons and Episode. Those games need a solid backend platform, to function critical tasks to
delight our players, and is supported and optimized by our Central Engineering team. As a Sr.
Software Engineer on the Central Infrastructure Team, you will build microservices that acts as
the core of all our games, facilitate the processing and recording of billions of events per day,
support critical systems for marketing, finance. You will be responsible for some of our biggest
projects as you build APIs and infrastructure that scales to millions of players in real-time
games.
What You’ll Do:
• Implement flexible, reusable, and scalable solutions to improve our data pipeline
• Develop microservices for critical infrastructure like A/B tests, Offer recommendation, etc
that is mission-critical to the business
• Develop microservices for our games such as real-time communication platforms,
leaderboard, etc
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party APIs that you suggest or write yourself
• Build scalable web tools (including open source tools) to support data analysis and
visualization for the company and influence what we build for our games’ players
What You Bring to the Central Infrastructure Engineering team:
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience (including 3+ years backend experience)
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
• Experience leading complex projects, preferably involving distributed systems
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Hadoop, and related backend technologies is a
plus
• Strong skills in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP
• A love for delighting users, both internal and external, with reliable tools, data, and
creative and highly technical solutions to their problems
Extra Gems for:
• Experience in working with microservices

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Company Description
SteelEye is a fast growing FinTech company based in London and has offices in Bangalore and Paris, that offers a data platform to help financial institutions such as Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Brokerage Firms, Asset Management Firms to comply with financial regulations in the European Union. Our clients can aggregate, search, surveillance and report on trade, communications and market data. SteelEye also enables customers to gain powerful insights from their data, helping them to trade with greater efficiency and profitability.
The company has a highly experienced management team and a strong board, who have decades of technology and management experience and worked in senior positions at many leading international financial businesses.
We are looking to hire a seasoned Sr API Developer to join us as we start on our next phase of growth. We have a culture of openness, collaboration, and the passion to get things done whilst appreciating the importance of a good work life balance.
Being part of a start-up can be equally exciting as it is challenging. You will be part of the SteelEye team not just because of your talent but also because of your entrepreneurial flare which we thrive on at SteelEye. This means we want you to be curious, contribute, ask questions and share ideas. We encourage you to get involved in helping shape our business.
SteelEye is a fast growing FinTech company based in London and has offices in Bangalore and Paris, that offers a data platform to help financial institutions such as Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Brokerage Firms, Asset Management Firms to comply with financial regulations in the European Union. Our clients can aggregate, search, surveillance and report on trade, communications and market data. SteelEye also enables customers to gain powerful insights from their data, helping them to trade with greater efficiency and profitability.
The company has a highly experienced management team and a strong board, who have decades of technology and management experience and worked in senior positions at many leading international financial businesses.
We are looking to hire a seasoned Sr API Developer to join us as we start on our next phase of growth. We have a culture of openness, collaboration, and the passion to get things done whilst appreciating the importance of a good work life balance.
Being part of a start-up can be equally exciting as it is challenging. You will be part of the SteelEye team not just because of your talent but also because of your entrepreneurial flare which we thrive on at SteelEye. This means we want you to be curious, contribute, ask questions and share ideas. We encourage you to get involved in helping shape our business.
Job Description
What you’ll do
- Develop new features and functionality in SteelEye's best breed SaaS application
- Work on setup API Developer for our growing SaaS product
- Ensure the software is up-to-date with latest technologies
- Triage issues and enhance core features of our existing API's for rapidly growing client base
- Design and architech our API layer solving problems around scale and performance
- Be part of great team building a fantastic product!
What we’re looking for
- You are experienced Python Developer, with minimum 5 years in commercial Python experience
- You have experience building REST-based API's using Flask, Django or FastAPI in a production environment
- You have excellent knowledge of data structures, software design patterns and software architecture
- You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and can adapt to changing requirements
- You have experience with code versioning (Git) and CI/CD (Jenkins, Circle, etc..) tools
- Familiarity/Experience with Elasticsearch is a huge plus
- Familiarity/Experience with FastAPI nice to have
- You are experienced Python Developer, with minimum 5 years in commercial Python experience
- You have experience building REST-based API's using Flask, Django or FastAPI in a production environment
- You have excellent knowledge of data structures, software design patterns and software architecture
- You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and can adapt to changing requirements
- You have experience with code versioning (Git) and CI/CD (Jenkins, Circle, etc..) tools
- Familiarity/Experience with Elasticsearch is a huge plus
- Familiarity/Experience with FastAPI nice to have
• Minimum 8+ Years of software development/programming experience.
• Any Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, not limiting to Engineering.
• Must be detail oriented.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Strong communication skills and fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Keywords are team player, proactive, attention to detail, independent, strong analytical skills and
the ability to adapt to new challenges
Responsibilities:
• 8+ Years of software development/programming experience
• 3+ Years of experience in Drop-wizard/Spring Boot Microservice
• Strong experience building multi-threaded applications using Java 8 and above
• Experienced in Agile development methodologies / Continuous Integration
• Java Design Patterns
• Amazon AWS EC2/S3/RDS
• OpenAPI, Contract first development experience
• Strong Java Concurrency (Java Threading)
• DDD (Domain Driven Design)
• Testing frameworks Like Mockito
• Test driven development experience
• JIRA, Git, Github and Github actions
Roles & Responsibilities :
- You’ll work as part of the software engineering team along with other front-end, back-end, mobile app, QA teams & you will also closely work with the founder.
- You should be able to take the ownership of a project end to end.
- Your primary focus will be to build, implement & maintain the complete back-end stack of the product.
- You will create production grade code and will implement the solutions which run bug free.
- Participate in product development discussions and product development road-maps.
- Collaborate with members across departments to identify and build on improvements to product, process and systems.
- Required Experience and Qualifications:
- 2 to 6 years of software development experience.
- Experience of working on application architecture design will be preferred.
- Experience of working in at least 1 or 2 projects, managing or leading the entire tasks.
- Experience in Docker/Kubernetes, Agile methodologies & CI/CD automation process.
- Knowledge of Queueing technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Version control using Git.
- Experience in microservices architecture, in-memory systems like Redis and basic knowledge of Linux/Unix systems.
- Experience of building applications processing large volumes of streaming data will be preferred.
- Experience from a middle size company or from a startup will be preferred.
- BE/MCA/MSc in Computers/Information technology with a good academic record.
Key Skills:
- Java, & Spring boot
- Hibernate
- Spring Boot JPA
- Object Oriented Programming
- MySQL & MongoDB
- Jenkins
Perks & Benefits:
- Great learning, innovative and development platform.
- Remote work and flexible timings.
- Reimbursement of the online learning courses on certification.
- Medical insurance coverage for you and the dependence.
- Five Working days per week.

The Junior/ Senior Software Engineer will be a member of the development team for Supply Chain Application module suite. The Supply Chain modules includes components at various layers, including server-side, integration, supply chain planning engines and user-interface. This individual will be responsible for participating in module development and providing technical assistance to junior members of the team.
Experience and Skills:
- 4-10 years of of experience in writing software
- Strong analytical problem solving skills
- Strong Object Oriented Programming Skills. Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Extensive knowledge of the Java programming language
- Understanding of software design patterns, J2EE components (EJB, JSP, Servlets), and XML
- Experience with relational databases (preferably Oracle) and Object/Relational frameworks. Should be able to write SQL queries, procedures, triggers and do basic performance tuning.
- Experience with C++ is a plus.
- Functional knowledge of supply chain management domain.
- Prior experience in development or consulting with an enterprise software vendor – preferably in supply chain planning or forecasting area.
- Experience with enterprise integration patterns & protocols, including SOAP, REST, JMS, EDI is a plus.
- Experience writing build & deployment scripts (e.g. Ant)
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
- Systems implementation skills: requirements/process analysis, conceptual and detailed design, configuration, testing, training, support
- Some experience with a scripting language such as Python or Ruby preferred
- Some experience with newer web client technologies such as AJAX, EXTJS preferred.
Essential Functions:
- Producing design documents based on a requirements document and participating in design reviews
- Producing effort estimates
- Writing code, automated unit and functional tests, and build/deployment scripts
- Participating in code reviews
- Executing performance/scalability tests & profiling hotspots
- Collaborating with QA, Technical Operations and Production Support during the various phases of a project
Education:
BE/ BTech/ ME/ MTech in Engineering, Computer Science








