Senior Go Backend Engineer, Live Services

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

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.