Backend Engineer

Embark Studios; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Collaborative environment

Diverse workplace culture

Job summary

A leading gaming company in Sweden is seeking an experienced professional to design and maintain live service functionality for multiple games. This role involves collaboration with diverse teams and requires strong programming skills, especially in Go, with 5+ years of experience. Ideally, the candidate should be familiar with large-scale data-intensive systems and cloud environments like Google Cloud Platform. The position promises a creative work environment fostering innovation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience with Go.
• Prior experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments, preferably GCP.
• Experience with large-scale data-intensive systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain live service functionality supporting multiple games.
• Work with distributed backend systems in a live-service environment handling millions of players’ data.
• Collaborate to build highly-scalable online services.

Skills

Strong programming skills in Go

Large-scale data-intensive systems experience

Kubernetes expertise

Professional English communication

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

C++

Unreal Engine 5

Google Spanner

Redis

Bazel

Job description

At Embark, you will join the game services group, a collective of teams powering player-facing online functionality, and managing highly scalable backend systems. In this role, you will work with online systems related to player progression, social interaction, game orchestration, monetization and authentication. The challenges you will solve are similar to those found in distributed data‑intensive platforms, but applied to live‑service games. Most of your time will be spent in a small number of core services, as part of a complex, interconnected gaming ecosystem. You are expected to take responsibility, ownership and identify what needs to be done. You will be part of a highly collaborative environment where you work together across teams to bring the best experience to our players. Our core technologies include Go, C++, Unreal Engine 5, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), SQL (using Google Spanner), Redis, Kubernetes, and Bazel.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain live service functionality supporting multiple games, such as messaging, VOIP, lobbies, inventory, matchmaking and microtransactions.
• Work with distributed backend systems in a live‑service environment handling millions of players’ data.
• Collaborate both within your team and with various other teams to build highly‑scalable, secure and reliable online services in our games.
• Innovate and explore new technologies, improving tooling, workflows, and architecture for our online systems.

We think you bring

• Strong programming skills and 5+ years of professional experience with Go.
• Experience with large‑scale data‑intensive systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments, preferably GCP.
• The ability and passion to take ownership and drive work forward.
• A curious mindset and comfort working in a highly collaborative environment.
• Professional English communication skills.

Bonus

• Experience with cloud‑native databases, specifically Google Spanner.
• Experience building or operating authentication systems using OpenID or similar standards.
• Some years of professional experience with C++.
• Experience working with game engines, specifically Unreal Engine.

At Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.

We welcome game makers of all sex, class, colour, age, gender identity, education, religion, opinion, culture, nation of origin, language, sexual orientation, shape, size, and ability.

Did we leave anyone out? Well, we welcome you, too! We think that the gaming industry is made better when everyone has a seat at the table.

Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can’t wait to hear from you (in English).