Software Engineer at Spyke Games in Istanbul

About Spyke Games We are a leading mobile gaming company founded by gaming veterans who have built and scaled massive gaming businesses for the past decade. We want to build the next generation of mobile game franchises to be played by millions of people around the globe for years. We are bringing together the smartest, the most talented and ‘fun to work with’ group of people united around this single mission. Fostered with team spirit and collaboration, we strive to create a passionate, energetic and eager to learn “geek” culture focused on games. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our engineering team in Istanbul. You will design and build the backend services that power our live games — working across distributed systems, high-concurrency APIs, and real-time data pipelines. Gaming experience is not required; what matters is that you have built production systems at scale and you know how to keep them running. Job Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain high-traffic backend game services on AWS using Java and Spring Boot Architect and evolve services handling real-time game state, player data, and live operations Implement and optimize asynchronous messaging and event-driven systems Ensure performance, reliability, and scalability of production systems under high concurrency Conduct peer code reviews and contribute to architectural decisions Monitor,…