Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Hamburg
- Working Model
- Full Remote
Job Summary
In this role, you develop scalable Java services and operate them on AWS and Kubernetes by orchestrating agents while making architectural decisions. You define CI/CD pipelines and enhance systematic work across the entire engineering organization.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- You own backend services end-to-end: architecture, implementation, infrastructure, deployment, production, scaling.
- The difference from a traditional senior role is leverage - you're expected to operate at 10-20× the throughput of a classical engineer by orchestrating agents rather than typing every line yourself.
- You stay the architect and the reviewer.
- The agents do the volume.
- Design and operate high-throughput, low-latency Java services (JDK 17+) on AWS, K8s, Terraform, ArgoCD.
- Build resilient distributed components and tune memory, concurrency, and GC for real production workloads.
- Architects MySQL and Redis layers handling millions of player rows.
- Own CI/CD, observability, and on-call for systems you ship.
- Run an agentic workflow that holds up under code review: precise specs, tight feedback loops, generated tests, validation gates, your judgement as the final filter on architecture, security, and performance.
- Help define how the rest of the engineering org adopts agentic practices - tooling, review standards, what "done" means when an agent wrote 80% of the diff.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Distributed systems, concurrency, GC tuning, SQL optimisation are second nature.
- Deep AWS and cloud-native stack (K8s, Docker, Terraform).
- A real agentic coding practice.
- You can talk concretely about: how you structure prompts and context for long-running tasks, when you let an agent run autonomously vs. when you intervene, how you manage multi-agent setups, what you've built with MCP / custom tools / skills, and how you review agent-generated code without becoming a bottleneck.
- Strong analytical decomposition - the ability to turn fuzzy product asks into precise constraints both humans and agents can execute against.
- Architectural judgement.
- You design clean, resilient systems; you don't just accept whatever the agent produces.
- Excellent written English.
- Seeking full-time remote roles (within Germany, valid German visa required) or Freelance opportunities within the German timezone (CET/CEST).
Experience
- 6+ years backend Java, expert level.
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What we offer
- You'll work on systems players interact with every minute, at a scale where engineering decisions show up immediately in metrics.
- You'll help set the bar for what agentic engineering looks like in a 30+ person backend org that ships real products - not a lab, not a pilot.
- High autonomy.
- Remote within the German time zone.
- Engineering-first culture.
- Genuinely interesting technical surface area: Java, MySQL, Redis, AWS, distributed systems, plus the meta-problem of how to run all of it agentically without sacrificing reliability.
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Benefits
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Goodgame Studios
At Goodgame Studios, we're leaders in developing free-to-play games. We offer mobile and browser games to over 300 million players worldwide, who can enjoy our games directly from their PCs or through their smartphones or tablets. Our games are entertaining and varied, and best of all, they're free! So come and join the fun today. You won't be disappointed.
Description
- Founding year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior Java Backend & DevOps Engineer
- Location
- Hamburg
- Working Model
- Full Remote
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
