Staff Backend Engineer

Scopely is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join the MONOPOLY GO! Chat team in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, or remotely within Canada and the US.

MONOPOLY GO! is a global phenomenon and the biggest mobile game launch in history, captivating millions of players worldwide. MONOPOLY GO! Chat is a companion app that helps players connect, coordinate, and share the fun beyond the game.

What You Will Do

You will work closely with a small, cross-functional team to guide, build, and improve backend systems for the companion app of a game played by millions of players worldwide. You will be responsible for:

• Leading technical direction for MONOPOLY GO! Chat backend services, APIs, data models, and real-time communication systems
• Designing and building scalable social and chat features such as conversations, messages, reactions, invites, blocking, reporting, notifications, and presence
• Turning ambiguous product goals into clear technical plans with product, design, QA, game teams, trust and safety, platform, and other partners
• Owning reliability, performance, security, observability, release readiness, and operational quality for production backend systems
• Designing resilient distributed systems using patterns for async processing, caching, search, data modeling, event-driven workflows, and graceful degradation
• Mentoring engineers, improving technical decision-making, and helping the team adopt strong engineering and AI-assisted development practices

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of professional experience building backend services for mobile apps, games, social products, or similarly complex product teams
• Deep professional experience with C#, ASP.NET, and backend service development in production environments
• Strong systems design skills across distributed systems, API design, async processing, caching, data modeling, reliability, and scalability
• Experience building cloud-native services on AWS with technologies such as DynamoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, SQS/SNS, Lambda, ECS, or similar services
• Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency systems that support mobile clients and unreliable network conditions
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, design patterns, testing, debugging, and maintainable architecture
• Solid understanding of application security concepts, including authentication, authorization, secure API design, rate limiting, privacy, and data protection
• Experience leading technical design, influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and aligning technical work across teams
• Ability to write effective prompts, supervise agent-driven development work, and guide safe, useful AI-assisted engineering practices
• Excellent technical communication skills and a desire to address player and stakeholder feedback