Lead Game Backend Services Engineer (Remote)

SportsTechJobs; San Mateo (CA); Remote; USD 169,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Competitive compensation

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

31st Union in California is seeking a Lead Game Services Engineer to lead the backend team responsible for building and operating studio-hosted services for a live-service title. You will own the architecture, guide incident response, and mentor engineers across US and EU studios while aligning with the online services roadmap.

The role offers remote flexibility in the United States, reports to the Director - Online Services, and requires 10+ years in backend development with strong C# and AWS

Qualifications

• 10+ years of server-side development experience.
• Led backend engineers on a shipped AAA title.
• Fluent in C#, and proficient in Python or Go.
• Experience with AWS and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering team: manage sprint planning and goals.
• Own architecture of studio-hosted services and APIs.
• Oversee monitoring, incident response and on-call readiness.

Skills

C#

Python/Go

Distributed systems

AWS

Unreal Engine C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MongoDB

Redis

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS services (EC2, RDS)

Job description

31st Union in California is seeking a Lead Game Services Engineer to lead the backend team responsible for building and operating studio-hosted services for a live-service title. You will own the architecture, guide incident response, and mentor engineers across US and EU studios while aligning with the online services roadmap.

The role offers remote flexibility in the United States, reports to the Director - Online Services, and requires 10+ years in backend development with strong C# and AWS