Remote Backend Engineer — Game Services & Microservices

Climax Studios; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private Medical/Dental healthcare

Pension & life cover

Time off winter break

3 volunteering days per year

Paid overtime

Regular team and company events

Job summary

Climax Studios is hiring a fully remote Software Engineer, based in the UK or EU, to join a team of backend engineers working on industry-leading game projects. You will deliver, deploy, and integrate backend services, collaborating with co-dev clients and internal stakeholders to meet project goals and timeframes.

The role emphasizes scalable server backends, CI/CD, documentation, and the ability to adapt to new tools and languages as required by the project.

Qualifications

• Experience in game development and server backends for AAA games or similar with large concurrent users.
• Production experience with Java, Golang, C#, C++, or Kotlin.
• Cloud platforms experience (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure); AWS certification advantageous.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases; distributed applications.
• Experience with Git or Perforce and other source control tools.
• Knowledge of Microservices and SOA; Kubernetes and Docker knowledge.
• Experience building or using CI/CD pipelines to validate and test code.
• Familiarity with LLMs for data processing and Gen AI for code generation.
• Ability to create supporting documentation and designs; strong time management and autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Construct systems, write code, deployments, etc.
• Work with team lead and stakeholders to estimate and prioritise work
• Collaborate with peers to iterate on solutions that fit requirements
• Keep the project lead and producer apprised of revised estimates and delivery times
• Promote high standards and process: tests, CI/CD, documentation
• Help and support team members in day-to-day work
• Understand, maintain and expand existing code and develop new features or systems

Skills

Time management

Communication

Autonomy

Attention to detail

Documentation

Tools

Java

Golang

C#

C++

Kotlin

Git

Perforce

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Job description

Climax Studios is hiring a fully remote Software Engineer, based in the UK or EU, to join a team of backend engineers working on industry-leading game projects. You will deliver, deploy, and integrate backend services, collaborating with co-dev clients and internal stakeholders to meet project goals and timeframes.

The role emphasizes scalable server backends, CI/CD, documentation, and the ability to adapt to new tools and languages as required by the project.