Lead Backend Engineer

Technacity Group; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a fast-growing, VC-backed gaming studio as a backend engineer, where you'll solve challenging technical problems in a remote-first, innovative environment. Collaborate with a dedicated team to develop and scale backend services that support exciting game features for millions of players.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience required.
• Expert in C# or Go programming languages.
• Experience in fast-paced environments with autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage, and execute tools and scripts for product versions.
• Build backend services and deploy them to Kubernetes.
• Scale services to support millions of concurrent players.

Skills

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Adaptability

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Join a fast-growing, VC-backed gaming studio that was founded by passionate innovators with a vision to revolutionize the shooter genre. With a remote-first team of top-tier talent from some of the biggest gaming and tech companies, this studio thrives on creativity, grit, and fun. You'll be part of an exciting, collaborative environment where you'll have the opportunity to work on groundbreaking projects in a dynamic, startup-driven culture. If you're ready to push the boundaries of gaming and shape the future of the genre, we want to hear from you!

What We're Looking For

• A passionate engineer: You love to take on difficult, seemingly impossible technical problems and dig in to find creative ways to solve them.
• Proven advanced ability to prepare, evaluate and maintain tools supporting and process automation for software or hardware product release.
• Design, manage and execute tools and scripts to develop different versions of products on wide-range operating systems.
• Do what needs to get done, while you have fun.

What you will be Doing

• Work closely with the other engineers across backend, infrastructure, and data to implement support for new and improved game features and systems
• Build backend services, deploy them to Kubernetes, take them to production, and monitor the results
• Scale services to support millions of concurrent players
• Have plenty of opportunity to work on any aspect of our technology stack, infrastructure, or backend services if you'd like!

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 4+ years of backend engineering experience
• Experience solving distributed systems challenges; we look for people who can assess a challenge, craft a scalable solution, and run with implementation
• Expert in a common programming language, preferably C# or Go
• Ability to serve as a component owner for software with a large user base, with focuses on maintainability and high reliability
• Experience working in fast paced environments with a high level of autonomy
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platform providers