Games Backend Engineering Student Position

Description

Based in Berlin, Europe's creative tech capital, our employees from 40 nations work together to develop top titles for a global audience. Working in independent teams, Wooga's signature approach to making great games for mobile has made us one of the world's most popular developers.

This exciting Young Talent position is open exclusively to students currently enrolled at a university. It can either be carried out as an internship (6 month minimum), or as a working student position.

As part of the program, you will be fully integrated into our Game Backend Services team. We have very interesting technical challenges to solve! Some numbers from our live systems are: 5 million SQL + NoSQL queries per minute, more than 10.000 HTTP requests per second and a read/write balance close to 50/50.

At Wooga, we have a strict no nonsense policy, we believe in good test coverage and we have the freedom to decide how to develop, host, deploy and operate our systems. To deliver best services to our game teams, we are constantly looking for new tools and exploring new technologies.

You will advance your skills through a combination of instructed training and hands-on experience. To ensure that your development stays on track, you will be assigned a veteran engineer as your mentor, who will guide you every step of the way. You will quickly be given your own projects where you will have the opportunity to contribute towards the improvements of our games.

• Bachelor or masters students currently enrolled at a university in a Computer Science or similar program with extraordinary achievement in your studies
• You have at least 6 months of time to devote to this position (full-time as an intern, part-time as a working student)
• You will be graduating directly after the completing this position
• Excellent programming skills, ideally passionate about one of the following languages: Ruby, Python or Scala
• Very good understanding of systems engineering, scalability, and algorithms.
• Database knowledge, preferably with relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience implementing APIs, preferably REST.
• Knowledge of server management (deployment, monitoring, optimizing, etc.) and the AWS Ecosystem.
• Ideally you have a good product sense, an understanding of the web ecosystem, strong personal initiative and the ability to prioritize.
• Strong affinity for social games
• Eager to code with an ability to learn fast and familiarize yourself with new subjects areas
• Excellent English communication skills and a strong capacity for teamwork
• The ability to work in a truly international and multi-cultural environment

As English is our office language, no German skills are required. But we’ll help you learn if you want to!

• Work on projects to be enjoyed by millions
• Be located in Berlin – Europe’s most exciting city, offering a low cost of living and high quality of life
• Potential for future employment at Wooga
• International and dynamic environment dedicated to making great games!

Wooga is an equal opportunity employer. We invite international candidates to apply, as well as monsters and unicorns. We offer our internships only to baby monsters that are still enrolled at a university. Graduated monsters please apply for the permanent positions!

It is optional to include your photo, date of birth, and place of birth in your application.