Senior Software Engineer

BlackLight Games

About Us:

We are BlackLight Games; we bring culturally relevant synchronous multiplayer games experience to mobile. Our games have been rocking the Play Stores since launch. We have built cutting-edge back-end technology; we take pride that our games are played by more than 1 million players daily. Our flagship game, Ludo SuperStar has been downloaded more than 100 million times. Other titles include – CallBreak, Carrom, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Word games.

Website link- https://blacklightsw.com/

Position: Backend Developer( Java/SpringBoot/MySQL)

Location: Noida

Educational Qualification: B.Tech/ MCA / M.Tech / M.Sc  or relevant professional experience; preferably in Computer Science.

Skills :

• Backend: Java/SpringBoot
• Databases: MySQL

Job Summary:

We are looking for a skilled Backend Developer to join our growing team and help build scalable systems that power products used by millions every month. You will work on Java, Spring Boot, and MySQL, with exposure to Node.js, crafting APIs and backend services that are reliable and production-grade.

What You Bring To The Team

• 3-4 years of backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot as primary focus.
• Strong working knowledge of MySQL (schema design, query optimization, migrations).
• Understanding of REST APIs and system design.
• Comfort with live system debugging, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• A mindset of ownership and building with quality.
• Design and develop scalable, reliable backend services and APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and MySQL.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and best practices.
• Collaborate with the frontend and game backend teams for seamless feature delivery.
• Write clean, maintainable code with proper testing and documentation.
• Monitor, debug, and improve live systems, ensuring high availability.

Extra Gems For

• Basic familiarity with Node.js and its ecosystem would be good to have.
• Experience working on a product that has launched and scaled to a solid user base would be good to have.
• Understanding of microservices architecture
• Exposure to AWS or GCP for deployments and scaling.
• Understanding of caching, queues, and real-time data pipelines.
• Prior experience in product-focused startups.

Why Us?

• High Growth Startup environment. 
• Fast-paced, ownership-driven environment.
• You’ll build products millions play every month.
• Friendly, collaborative team with high standards.
• Culture that values learning, quality, and growth.
• Company sponsored courses and education material.
• Lots of learning opportunities.
• Work with a super-talented team of professionals.
• Informal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and trips.
• Medical Insurance for you and your family. 
• Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all times.

Responsibilities:

• Take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams.

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which include: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support

• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules that handle the interaction between multiple components.

• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions

• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable

• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions

• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to the outage

• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.

• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Requirements:

• Experience: 3+ years

• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science

• Software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms

• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications

• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus

• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms

• Experience with web technologies, Go/Java/Python

• Language: GO or Python

• Strong expertise in DS and Algo

• Strong leadership skills - have experience mentoring, building products from scratch or incumbent in design and architecture.

• Have worked in the scaling of the system right from scratch.

• Someone worked in small user base to a large user base and wrote optimized code

• Both HLD and LLD

The primary responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the overall software development lifecycle.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements within your teams.
• Manage stakeholder planning and communications ensuring key outcomes
• Recruit, coach, and mentor the best engineering and management talent
• Build, coach, and manage a strong team of engineers that set the standard and can up-level the overall talent of the extended organization.
• Provide a strong understanding of native mobile developer platforms and bring broad thought leadership to the next generation mobile developer experience.
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent products and programs from delivering on product and program objectives.
• Balance urgent and effective action, commitment to excellence, and taking the initiative to resolve problems; holds internal stakeholders accountable where appropriate.

REQUIRED

• 8+ years of industry experience with 2+ years of senior leadership experience.
• Solid track record of over-achieving engineering and platform delivery and scaling targets in high volume, innovative and fast-paced high-pressure environment; proven results in delivery on platform product.
• Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Python/Scala. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs with skilled knowledge on UI technologies like Angular 2+, React, D3.JS
• Working experience with Agile methodologies and durable team concepts.
• Knowledge in DevOps practices and tools.
• Knowledge in Cloud Technologies, CI/CD, Jenkins, Testing methodologies is preferred.
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch, Kafka
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.