Backend Engineer/mle

**Our Company - playSTUDIOS VIETNAM**

Come join an ambitious mobile entertainment company which committed to leveraging the best technology we can to create fun experiences. We have big plans and would be thrilled for you to consider us.

playSTUDIOS Vietnam is a Vietnam subsidiary of the United States-based leading mobile & social games company playSTUDIOS Inc.

We are backed by dominant, multi-billion-dollar market leaders in the leisure and video game industries and a collection of powerhouse venture capital firms. Our founding team has over a century of collective gaming experience.

We are building a best-of-breed development and operations group and are looking for top-tier talent who can help us create and optimize high-quality games in the rapidly evolving social and mobile gaming markets.

Our company has high growth rates, with an established company's stability and financial security. We guarantee high-quality work, AAA entertainment brand exposure, competitive compensation, and great benefits.

**We're thrilled to share**:
playSTUDIOS is looking for a Backend Engineer for our growing AI department, with a strong engineering and DevOps mindset, who's eager to grow into a role focused on ML systems. You'll design and maintain backend services for hosting models, serving predictions at low latency, and supporting modern AI infrastructure. This is an ideal role for someone excited about performance, scalability, and working at the intersection of software engineering and machine learning.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- **Own Backend Services for AI**: Design and implement backend systems for hosting ML models, exposing prediction endpoints, and handling inference at scale.
- ** Build Real-Time APIs**: Develop high-performance APIs using **FastAPI**or modern frameworks (e.g., Ray serve), delivering real-time predictions with low latency.
- ** Deploy & Monitor Services**: Use **Kubernetes, Docker**, **CI/CD pipelines**, and infrastructure-as-code tools to deploy and manage services in production.
- ** Scale with AWS**: Work with AWS services like **EC2**, **Lambda**, **AppRunner**, **S3**, **SQS**, **CloudWatch**, **Load Balancers**, and more.
- ** Optimize for Performance**: Ensure responsiveness, uptime, and efficiency through profiling, tuning, and scalable architecture design.
- ** Enable ML in Production**: Collaborate with data scientists to deploy models into real-time environments and ensure monitoring, logging, and versioning.
- ** Lead DevOps Integration**: Partner with DevOps to ensure robust CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure automation.
- ** Build Foundational Tools**: Develop reusable backend components and tools for data science use cases beyond model inference—such as feature serving or event-based triggers.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- 3-6 years of experience as a backend engineer or full-stack developer with strong infrastructure ownership.
- Proven experience working with **Python** (FastAPI or similar), **Docker**, and cloud infrastructure (preferably **AWS**).
- Familiarity with **CI/CD pipelines**, server provisioning, logging frameworks, and performance profiling tools.
- Experience deploying and maintaining scalable APIs and services, especially those powering ML/AI or data-driven functionality.
- Bonus: Exposure to **model serving frameworks**, **vector databases**, **RAG pipelines**, or other ML/GenAI technologies.
- Strong knowledge of system design, network protocols, and real-time service architecture.
- Comfortable collaborating with DevOps, Data Scientists, and cross-functional product teams.
- Excited to grow into an MLE role by learning model lifecycle, observability, and AI/ML best practices in production.

**Additional Notes**

You may be expected to complete a test as a part of the interviewing procedure.

**BENEFITS AND PERKS**
- **Global Collaboration**: Work directly with a diverse international teams from Hong Kong, Singapore, Israel, Serbia, the US, and more.
- ** People‑centered Culture**: Where individual effort, shared dedication, and true teamwork come together to craft games of outstanding creativity, aesthetic value, and entertainment quality.
- ** Growth & Learning**: Unlock unlimited growth opportunities through English classes, an online learning platform, specialized technical training led by global experts, and the opportunity to have hands-on experience with game products reaching up to 100 million players worldwide.
- ** Comprehensive Healthcare**: Receive Bao Viet Premium healthcare coverage of up to 1.2 billion VND/person/year for yourself, plus attractive coverage for all your dependents.
- ** Insurance & PIT** **(Personal Income Tax)**: Receive 100% salary during probation, with full Social, Health, and Unemployment Insurance **from day one**. All compulsory insurance is fully covered by the company — you only contribute Personal Income Tax.
- ** Reward & Recognition**: 13-month salary/year; performance-based bonus; discretionary bonus; attractive emp