Backend Software Engineer

2K; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in gaming development seeks a Backend Software Engineer for its Marvel Contest of Champions team in Vancouver. This hybrid role involves building backend systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring high performance in a fun-loving culture. Ideal candidates have solid experience in Node.js, React.js, and game development, with a commitment to best practices in coding and documentation.

Benefits

Extended health coverage

Flexible spending accounts

RRSP matching

PTO and parental leave

Employee and family assistance program

Learning and growth opportunities

Cool office spaces

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience, preferably in game development.
• Strong experience with server-side logic and database management.
• Experience with Google Cloud or AWS is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Writing, testing, and maintaining code to ensure high performance.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams for backend systems development.
• Debugging software issues and maintaining clear documentation.

Skills

Node.js

React.js

JavaScript

TypeScript

RESTful APIs

Database Management

Agile methodology

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our Marvel Contest of Champions team. In this role, you’ll play a key part in building and maintaining the backend systems that support our game teams, ensuring high performance and seamless player experiences. You'll work closely with other engineers and cross-functional teams to develop scalable, secure systems and tools that bring in-game events, features, and live content to life.

This is a hybrid position, with two in-office days per week at our Downtown Vancouver studio.

In this role, you can expect to be involved in:

• Writing, testing, and maintaining code following coding standards and best practices.
• Collaborating effectively with team members, participating in code reviews, and adhering to established development processes.
• Debugging and solving software issues, providing effective solutions.
• Maintaining clear and concise documentation for code and project-related materials.
• Continuously learning and improving technical skills and knowledge.
• Communicating progress, challenges, and updates to team members and stakeholders.
• Adhering to project deadlines and milestones, and managing tasks efficiently.
• Seeking mentorship and sharing knowledge to contribute to team growth.
• Backend:
• Assisting in designing and architecting backend systems with a focus on scalability, performance, and security.
• Implementing server-side logic, including APIs, databases, authentication systems, and data processing pipelines.
• Developing RESTful APIs, UI interfaces, and data visualization tools.
• Collaborating with game designers to understand LiveOps tools and game feature requirements.
• Participating in design discussions, providing technical insights and feasibility assessments.
• Implementing LiveOps tools and features, including in-game events, content updates, player rewards, and analytics systems.
• Assisting in integrating backend systems with the game client to support functionality.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• 3+ years of experience in software development, preferably in game development
• Solid technical experience in Node.js, React.js, Javascript/Typescript
• Shipped multiple titles releases on Console, PC, or Mobile
• Experience in Android / iOS Mobile application development
• Strong database experience (any RDBMS, preferably MongoDB)
• Experience working on a RESTful API system
• Good experience working with source control
• Experience dealing with scalability and performance optimization
• Experience working with Google Cloud / AWS
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Professional proficiency with multiple game engines, or proven ability to pick-up new ones
• Ability to write clean, simple, well-documented code from design requirements
• Able to effectively communicate and translate between general ideas and technical practices
• Proven track record of working independently and collaboratively in a dynamic team setting
• Up-to-date knowledge on the latest mobile gaming trends
• Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical team members
• Experience working in Agile, Kanban, or similar project management methodologies

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize.
• Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2 days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options are also available for certain positions within Kabam.

Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.

We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!

About Kabam

Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.

Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.

Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.

Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.