Backend Engineer, Arcade Platform — High-Growth Impact

Triumph; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch credit

Healthcare

Vision & dental

401k

Job summary

Triumph is seeking a backend engineer who is passionate about building and empowered to drive projects to completion. You will own a large portion of our engineering system, deliver consumer facing features, and collaborate with the data team on data-driven problems such as matchmaking and anti-fraud.

You’ll work across game modes, real-time multiplayer, rewards, integrity, and scalability, helping the team ship fast with solid CI/CD and experimentation.

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 your peers’ success.
• A strong personal slope and desire to grow one’s career.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve game modes and tournaments for Triumph Arcade to engage players.
• Implement efficient matchmaking to pair players by skill and ensure fast, fair matches.
• Own real-time multiplayer end-to-end: spin up game servers, reduce latency, and settle results.
• Develop the personalization engine for rewards and offers at the right moment.
• Work with fraud and payments teams to detect collusion, score tampering and multi-accounting.
• Improve backend scalability to support continued growth and higher game volume.

Skills

Backend Go

Storage systems

Collaboration

Growth mindset

Job description

Triumph is seeking a backend engineer who is passionate about building and empowered to drive projects to completion. You will own a large portion of our engineering system, deliver consumer facing features, and collaborate with the data team on data-driven problems such as matchmaking and anti-fraud.

You’ll work across game modes, real-time multiplayer, rewards, integrity, and scalability, helping the team ship fast with solid CI/CD and experimentation.