Head Backend Engineer - Remote, Live Ops & Growth

Gardens Interactive, Inc.; United States; Remoto; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Competitive salaries and pay透明

Stock options

Life insurance and disability

401(k) contributions (US) / RRSP + DPS

Paid parental leave

Fully distributed remote studio across

Descrizione del lavoro

Gardens Interactive, Inc. is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to mentor a growing team and drive backend architecture for our live-service games. You will own planning, code quality, on-call responses, and cross-functional collaboration with design, marketing, and production.

You will scale backend systems globally, craft reliable SLIs/SLOs, and partner with senior leadership to define a practical technical roadmap while maintaining high ownership in a lean, collaborative studio.

Competenze

• 6+ years of professional backend experience, with games/live-service development strongly preferred.
• 2+ years of experience directly managing or leading engineers.
• Strong Kotlin or Java skills and familiarity with Kubernetes, Grafana, Terraform, and load-testing tools.
• Hands-on experience with scaling backend systems to a global audience and the debugging, monitoring, and alerting challenges that come with it.
• Solid grasp of software architecture and design patterns.
• Experience working cross-functionally with design, marketing, and production on a shipped or in-development game.
• Comfortable operating with high ownership in a lean team where you wear multiple hats.
• Strong communication skills: able to explain technical trade-offs to non-engineers and rally a small team around a plan.

Mansioni

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers: set goals, run 1:1s, give feedback, and support career development.
• Create hiring plans and interview technical candidates based on product needs.
• Own team processes: planning, code review standards, on-call/bug triage, and how work gets scoped and estimated.
• Create a healthy, high-trust engineering culture at a mid-size studio scale.
• Review pull requests and unblock engineers on hard technical problems.
• Own the evolution of our backend architecture and write production code on critical-path systems.
• Own reliability, service level objectives, incident response, and infrastructure cost.
• Partner closely with game design, marketing, and production to scope features and keep engineering aligned with the creative vision.
• Partner with the Technical Director to create a realistic technical roadmap.
• Communicate engineering status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to studio leadership.

Conoscenze

Backend engineering

Leadership

Kotlin/Java

Cross-functional collaboration

System design

Strumenti

Kubernetes

Grafana

Terraform

Load testing tools

Descrizione del lavoro

Gardens Interactive, Inc. is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to mentor a growing team and drive backend architecture for our live-service games. You will own planning, code quality, on-call responses, and cross-functional collaboration with design, marketing, and production.

You will scale backend systems globally, craft reliable SLIs/SLOs, and partner with senior leadership to define a practical technical roadmap while maintaining high ownership in a lean, collaborative studio.