Staff Software Engineer

Scopely is seeking a highly motivated Staff Software Engineer to join our Playgami team in Barcelona on a hybrid basis!

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to encourage play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing, and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people worldwide daily.

Playgami is building the best SaaS gaming platform ever! The team strives to build the world’s best products for game production, operation, and insights. Powering many award-winning, loved-by-millions franchise games over mobile, web, and PC.

What You’ll Do

• Lead work from design through implementation and operation, producing maintainable code, useful documentation, effective tests, and reliable releases.
• Set technical direction for complex features and systems that run world-class games at scale, owning clear trade-offs between player experience, delivery speed, and long-term health.
• Raise standards across teams, improving delivery, performance, reliability, scalability, and security through sound design and production feedback.
• Partner with colleagues in product, data, design and other disciplines to clarify ambiguous problems, align decisions, manage dependencies, and deliver meaningful outcomes for the business.
• Mentor engineers, share knowledge, and help colleagues succeed beyond your immediate team.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong computer science and engineering fundamentals, including system design, data structures, algorithms and concurrency.
• Deep experience with Java, C#, or another object-oriented language, including asynchronous and parallel programming.
• A track record of designing, shipping, and operating complex production systems with high-quality, maintainable code.
• The ability to lead across teams and disciplines through influence, communicate decisions clearly, and work constructively.
• A product engineering mindset, sound judgment under ambiguity, and a habit of learning and improving.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Experience with low-latency, high-volume distributed systems or large-scale data technologies.
• Experience with a modern web framework such as React or Angular.

At Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that! We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us & embrace the adventure!

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.

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