Senior Cloud Developer (Backend & Tools)

Senior Cloud Developer (Backend & Tools)

Location: Remote but you must live in the UK.

Job Overview
Fusebox is seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Developer to guide the evolution of our live service architecture and spearhead the development of internal tools and APIs. You will not be working on gameplay logic; instead, you will build the critical infrastructure, pipelines, and backend services that allow our writers and artists to deliver world-class narrative content to millions of players.

You will collaborate with the game team to improve tooling, increase scalability, and lock down our security. Currently, we lean heavily on a GCP serverless stack. We are looking for an expert to help us optimize these services, establish robust DEV/PROD environments, and enforce best practices across the engineering department as we scale.

Responsibilities

• Backend Engineering: Design, build, and optimize scalable serverless microservices and APIs using Node.js (Javascript/TypeScript) on GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions).

• Security & Authentication: Take ownership of our backend security, designing and enforcing robust authentication and authorization protocols across all internal and external APIs.

• Infrastructure & Environments: Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) to provision GCP and AWS resources, and establish clean separation between DEV, STAGING, and PROD environments.

• Cost & Performance Optimization: Audit and optimize our existing Node.js applications and Cloud Run configurations to improve performance and reduce cloud spend.

• Internal Tooling & Pipelines: Maintain and improve our suite of internal workflow tools (Google AppsScript, Docs/Sheets add-ons) to streamline content ingestion, pipeline management, and testing for our creative teams.

• Mentorship: Offer technical guidance and code reviews to team members, fostering a culture of best practices in security, CI/CD, and cloud architecture.

Requirements

• Cloud Expertise: Extensive professional experience with Google Cloud Platform (specifically Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, API Gateway, and Cloud Storage). Familiarity with AWS (S3, CloudFront, EC2) is a plus.

• Development: Strong, production-level proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js.

• Serverless Ecosystems: Deep understanding of the Firebase ecosystem (Realtime Database, Analytics, Crashlytics, Remote Config).

• Security Mindset: Proven track record of securing APIs, managing secrets, and implementing authentication in serverless environments.

• Infrastructure & Containerization: Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and building optimized Docker containers for deployment.

• Communication: Excellent ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders (writers, artists, producers).

Nice to haves

• Experience building and maintaining internal productivity tools using Google AppsScript.

• Familiarity with Python (for scripting and data pipelines).

• Experience integrating game backends with PlayFab (and Azure CloudScript) or Sentry.io.

• Experience interfacing with Unity (C#) or building tools/SDKs that connect Unity to the backend.

• Experience working on "Live Service" mobile products with high concurrency.

About Fusebox

 At Fusebox we make world-leading choice-based narrative mobile games to entertain a global audience. Fusebox came to life in 2016 and has since rapidly become a market leader in the Interactive Narrative mobile gaming space, particularly with its success of licensed IP titles, such as Love Island: The Game, which frequently tops global charts. We have since diversified our portfolio to include original stories, and are ambitiously expanding and evolving both our product portfolio and world class team.

Benefits

• Up to 5% employer pension contribution 

• Private Health Care insurance with Vitality

• Flexible working

• Unlimited holiday

• Enhanced family friendly leave and pay

• Up to 8% bonus scheme 

• Employee Assistance Program with Health Assured 

• Eye care vouchers

• Season ticket loans

• Quarterly team days

• Team social events