Arcade Backend Engineer - Real-Time Games & Growth

Triumph Arcade; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Triumph Arcade is a mobile platform where players compete in skill-based games for cash and prizes: async tournaments, real-time 1v1 matches, streaks, leagues and daily challenges. The backend decides who plays whom, scores every game, pays out winners and keeps play fair, across millions of games a week. You will work on: Game modes and tournaments.

Build and evolve async tournaments, blitz, streaks, leagues, challenges and new formats to engage in skill based games. Matchmaking.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer (Go is nice).
• Experience with storage systems (e.g., databases, object stores, or distributed file systems).
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across work streams within your team and contribute to peers' success.
• A strong personal slope and desire to grow one's career.

Responsibilities

• Game modes and tournaments: Build and evolve async tournaments, blitz, streaks, leagues, challenges and new formats to engage in skill based games.
• Matchmaking: Pair players by skill so matches are fast and fair, even in small pools.
• Real-time multiplayer: Own live matches end to end: spin up game servers, connect players with low latency, and settle results.
• Rewards and offers: Build the personalization engine that gives each player the right reward or offer at the right time.
• Integrity: Work with fraud and payments to detect collusion, score tampering and multi-accounting.
• Scalability: Build and improve backend scalability to support the next 10x of growth.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Storage systems

Collaboration

Job description

Triumph Arcade is a mobile platform where players compete in skill-based games for cash and prizes: async tournaments, real-time 1v1 matches, streaks, leagues and daily challenges. The backend decides who plays whom, scores every game, pays out winners and keeps play fair, across millions of games a week. You will work on: Game modes and tournaments.

Build and evolve async tournaments, blitz, streaks, leagues, challenges and new formats to engage in skill based games. Matchmaking.