Senior Software Engineer

WHAT IMPACT CAN A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER HAVE AT ESG?

At East Side Games, we all band together to deliver a world-class gameplay experience for our players around the globe. Everyone has an impact here. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be hands-on with our systems, tools, and features to build player-first, world-class mobile titles for millions of players globally. You’ll be working on our globally live LiveOps titles, where you’ll solve complex problems across the entire stack, raising the technical bar for idle games. You will mentor, coach, and work closely with our junior engineers. We want you to be as committed to making memorable player experiences as we are. We’re a remote-first studio and encourage all applications.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Develop and implement complex systems, game enhancements, features, and bug fixes for our LiveOps titles.
• Be hands-on, developing solutions for our engineering goals head-on through the implementation of high quality, well-structured and documented code.
• Design and implement systems and architecture for the game and any future projects!
• Contribute to the project’s technical vision, plan and own technical specifications, and have accountability for your work from development to production.
• Refine and prioritize technical tasks and debt on the project.
• Collaborate closely with our Designers and Artists and provide improvements to our processes, workflows, and tools.
• Maintain and innovate our existing tools for content creation, adding new functionalities and improving the engineering workflows.
• Mentor, coach, and work closely with our junior engineers, and reviewing code.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING:

• 5+ years experience building high quality production software systems. This includes writing code and contributing to the building/development of products, setting the code standards, and defining the code architecture.
• Experience in C# and Unity.
• Experience working on F2P, freemium, or live games is a HUGE plus.
• Experience with backend systems is a plus, particularly experience integrating and/or creating REST APIs.
• A shipped mobile title or personal gaming projects you’re proud of building.
• An understanding of professional software engineering best practices, agile development, code reviews, source control management, build processes, and testing.
• Strategic time management skills and a commitment to executing tasks to completion.
• Accessible communication skills, both written and orally.
• Experience mentoring and guiding other engineers on a team.

Compensation Range: $115K-$130K CAD per annum. Salary is determined by experience, skills, and capabilities.

WE’RE BUILT ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

East Side Games is an equitable employer that values equity, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome and encourage people of marginalized backgrounds, particularly QTBIPOC folks, to apply, and will acknowledge and value the strengths you bring to foster yours and the studio's growth.

If this sounds like something you hoped for and more, and you’re enthused to build genre-defining narrative idle games, click the “Apply” button. If now is not the right time for you, but you know someone who would be a great match for us at East Side Games, check out our Referral Bonus on our website too! Let’s build great games together!

We can’t wait to hear from you!

Due to a small, but completely awesome recruitment team, only those candidates that qualify will be contacted. Thanks for your interest in ESG and we wish you the best of success in your job search!