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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…

This is a hybrid position based in our Downtown Vancouver office.

• Upgrade Backend technology to keep our product up to date with stable releases of partner software including Node, NPM packages, Kubernetes, Mongo and GCP features.
• Work with Production to identify the backlog and timeline of upgrades, including urgent upgrades such as security patches.
• Be accountable in monitoring, analyzing and prioritizing performance concerns such as memory usage and leaks, server crashes, hangs and pauses, infrastructure cost and more.
• Drive and lead roll out and maintain software engineering best practices such as zero error logging, unit tests, indexing, sharding and others.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions.
• Identify and select appropriate technologies to ensure scalability, performance, security, and maintainability. Will include sunsetting and replacement.
• Lead meetings, discussions, and code reviews to ensure code quality.
• Promote documentation of software designs, code, and technical processes.
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers, sharing knowledge and providing constructive feedback.
• As needed, participate in pager duty responsibilities and (roughly one week every seven weeks) be incident commander for live incidents.

• Advanced working experience with Node.js - contributions to the Node.js project ideal
• 7+ years of experience in software development, ideally in gaming
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Have maintained a live game in production using Node.js using a Cloud provider
• Have maintained a live database such as Mongo.
• Ability to write clean, simple, well-documented code from design requirements
• Proven track record of working independently and collaboratively in a dynamic team setting
• Experience working in Agile, Kanban, or similar project management methodologies
• Experience in Profiling Node
• Knowledge in how to deal with platform/device specific issues
• A problem-solver with a keen eye to identify areas of improvement

• 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: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group volunteer days off-site!
• Hybrid Work: Kabammers typically spend at least two days per week in office. We believe in blending in-office collaboration with the freedom of remote work, and want everyone to have flexibility while fostering strong connections.

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!

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.

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.