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In this role, you design backend systems for intelligent NPC interactions, create FastAPI services, and integrate them seamlessly into Unreal Engine 5 while managing data pipelines and CI/CD workflows.
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Your role in the team
- Design and build the backend systems that power intelligent NPC interactions, game-integrated language models, and narrative-aware behavior.
- The position involves developing FastAPI services, managing data pipelines and deployment workflows, and connecting backend systems to gameplay in Unreal Engine 5.
- This role combines backend engineering with AI systems work across infrastructure, tool design, and real-time gameplay integration.
- Design, build, and maintain FastAPI backend for game-integrated AI systems.
- Structure PostgreSQL databases for player memory, NPC context, and world data.
- Own Docker-based deployment and CI/CD pipelines for internal and live systems.
- Zusammenarbeit mit Gameplay- und Narrative-Teams für eine nahtlose API-/Game-Integration.
- Build developer tools to simulate, test, and debug prompt flows and AI behaviors.
- Monitor, scale, and improve platform performance and reliability.
- Contribute to core gameplay systems shaping immersive storytelling.
Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Proficient in Python and FastAPI.
- Ability to work onsite in Munich, Germany.
- Gültige EU-Arbeitserlaubnis.
Experience
- 3+ Jahre Erfahrung im Backend- oder Fullstack-Engineering.
- Strong PostgreSQL experience (schema design, indexing, optimization).
- Experience designing APIs for real-time or player-facing systems.
What we offer
- The opportunity to work on an ambitious AAA title.
- A dynamic, fast-moving work environment.
- Competitive salary and benefits, including relocation assistance.
- A central Munich location.
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About your employer
welevel GmbH is an independent game studio based in Munich, specializing in the development of video games. With a team of over 20 people, the company is working on an innovative survival city builder project using cutting-edge technologies like Unreal Engine 5. As a growing startup in the gaming sector, welevel aims to shape the future of RPG and survival games.
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