Backend Staff 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 Bonus Points Experience building real-time chat, messaging, social graph, moderation, notification, or activity feed systems Experience with trust and safety systems, content moderation, reporting flows, spam prevention, or abuse detection Experience integrating social features with game systems, LiveOps, experiments, feature flags, or staged rollouts Experience with observability, incident response, SLOs, production debugging, and operational ownership of live services Experience with Unity, mobile game backend systems, or game client/server integrations Experience with DynamoDB single-table or high-scale access patterns, Redis caching strategies, or event-driven architectures At Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that! We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us and embrace the adventure! Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely makes hiring decisions without regard to protected status under applic