Lead Backend Engineer

Technacity Group; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative gaming studio that is redefining the shooter genre. This role offers the chance to work with a remote-first team of talented professionals from leading tech companies. You will tackle challenging technical problems and create scalable solutions that support millions of players. With a focus on collaboration and creativity, you'll have the opportunity to influence the future of gaming in a fun and engaging environment. If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and gaming, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience with a focus on distributed systems.
• Expert in a common programming language, preferably C# or Go.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services and deploy them to Kubernetes for production.
• Work with engineers to implement support for new game features.

Skills

Problem Solving

Backend Engineering

Distributed Systems

C# Programming

Go Programming

Process Automation

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Degree in Computer Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

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 a wide range of 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.