Junior Backend Developer

We are looking for a Junior Backend Developer

Nexal Games are an Israeli mobile game studio based in Tel Aviv.

We create casual games that are ridiculously easy to start playing… and insanely hard to put down.

What you will actually use every day (hard requirements):

•  Python — confident level (“I read legacy code without crying and write decorators in my sleep”)

•  Modern async Python (asyncio / FastAPI / any up-to-date async stack)

• Knowledge of modern Java will be a huge advantage 

•  Practical, production-grade experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, vLLM, Ollama etc.) — not just “I watched a tutorial” shoot them

•  GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, Cloud SQL / AlloyDB, Pub/Sub — you feel at home here)

•  Terraform (real work: modules, workspaces, remote state — not “terraform init && pray”)

•  Basic understanding of Node.js (and why sane people sometimes still pick it over Python)

Strong advantages (things that will make us love you instantly):

•  Deployed LLM features to production (handled rate limits, caching, fallbacks, token budgeting, prompt versioning)

Things we do NOT require from a Junior developer:

•  3+ years of commercial experience

•  Being a GCP + AWS + Azure wizard

•  Single-handedly designing enterprise-scale architecture

If you’ve shipped at least one LLM-powered feature to production, can write Terraform without an existential crisis, and actually understand Python — please apply.

We will most likely hire you even if you’re too humble to call yourself mid-level 😏

Send CV / GitHub / links to your LLM or game-related side projects.

We’re waiting.