Senior Backend Engineer

At Naphora Games Group , we’re building more than games, we’re building a global team of ambitious, driven people who are hungry to learn, experiment, and raise the bar for the next generation of games.

We collaborate openly, move fast, and challenge ourselves every day to build better, smarter, and faster.

Our goal is to create world-class games that players around the globe love and remember. If you thrive in a high-performance, ownership-driven environment and want to make a real impact, you’ll fit right in with us.

Role Summary

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing team at Naphora Games Group and help us design, build, operate, and scale robust backend systems and platforms.

This is a fully remote position open to candidates from any location , with availability to work in alignment with our Saudi Arabia working schedule (Sunday–Thursday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM KSA time).

The role is hands-on across backend services, APIs, databases, integrations, and production systems, with a focus on building reliable and scalable solutions that can support large user bases and growing workloads.

Working closely with Engineering, Product, BI, and other teams, you’ll contribute to architecture and technical decision-making while supporting systems throughout their lifecycle, from development through production and live operations.

The role will also involve working with modern AI services and APIs, integrating AI models and AI-powered capabilities into our backend systems and products.

Responsibilities

Backend Development & Architecture

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems, services, and APIs

Contribute to system architecture and long-term technical decisions

Build service layers and reusable components that can support multiple products and use cases

Design and optimize database schemas, queries, indexing, and data models

Build asynchronous systems using queues, workers, scheduled jobs, and event-driven workflows

Develop and maintain integrations with external platforms, APIs, and third-party services

Scale, Reliability & Live Operations

Design systems capable of supporting high traffic, large user bases, and growing workloads

Support systems throughout their lifecycle, from development to production and live operations

Improve backend performance, reliability, security, and maintainability

Identify technical bottlenecks and implement practical, scalable solutions

Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, error handling, and system health tracking

Investigate and resolve production incidents, performance issues, database bottlenecks, and service degradation

AI & Integrations

Integrate AI models, tools, and APIs into existing products and backend workflows

Build reliable interfaces between backend systems and external AI providers

Design end-to-end AI-enabled workflows connecting AI services with databases, APIs, backend systems, and product logic

Evaluate opportunities to use AI to improve product capabilities, workflows, and automation

Collaboration & Engineering Practices

Work closely with Engineering, Product, Data, Infrastructure, and other functions to deliver new features and products

Participate in technical planning, architecture reviews, and code reviews

Communicate technical risks, trade-offs, and solutions clearly

Contribute to improving engineering practices, system maintainability, and overall technical quality

Success Looks Like

Building reliable and scalable backend systems that perform effectively as our products and user base grow

Designing backend services and APIs that are maintainable, reusable, and able to support multiple products

Maintaining strong system reliability, performance, and uptime in live production environments

Identifying and resolving production issues, bottlenecks, and scaling challenges effectively

Building practical AI integrations and workflows that add value to our products and internal systems

Making thoughtful technical and architectural decisions that support both immediate and long-term needs

Contributing to stronger engineering practices, monitoring, reliability, and operational processes

Collaborating effectively across technical and product teams

Qualifications

5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, or equivalent hands-on experience building complex production systems

Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining backend systems in production

Proven experience working on live systems, products, or platforms serving a large number of users

Experience operating or supporting production environments as part of LiveOps, platform operations, or continuous product operations

Hands-on experience integrating AI tools, models, LLMs, or AI APIs into production systems and building practical solutions on top of them

Ability to design and implement end-to-end AI-enabled workflows connecting AI services with backend systems, databases, APIs, and product logic

Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, API design, databases, caching, concurrency, scalability, performance optimization, and system reliability

Strong experience with at least one backend language or framework such as Python, Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Java, or C#

Strong SQL and database design experience, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar relational databases

Experience building REST APIs and service-based architectures

Experience with Redis or similar caching technologies

Experience with message queues, workers, or event-driven systems

Experience integrating third-party APIs and external services

Experience working with cloud-based production environments

Hands-on experience dealing with production challenges such as traffic spikes, service degradation, incidents, database bottlenecks, scaling, and uptime

Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Able to take ownership of backend systems and technical problems from development through production

Experience working with backend systems for mobile games, consumer apps, or other high-scale products is a plus

If this role excites you and you’re ready to help shape the future of game development at Naphora, we encourage you to apply.