Senior Back-End Engineer

Eleventhhour; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Eleventh Hour Games is seeking a Back-end Engineer passionate about creating online game services. This role involves developing features, debugging services, and collaborating with a remote team in a supportive environment with strong growth potential. You'll enjoy perks like flexible remote work and generous vacation days.

Benefits

Flexible fully remote working arrangements

Team focused environment

20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 5 floating holidays

90% paid health coverage premiums

Dental, Vision coverage

401K for U.S. based employees

Qualifications

• 5+ years of developing/supporting online services.
• 2+ years in industry role.
• Demonstrated command of C# or similar.

Responsibilities

• Develop online game features like economy and matchmaking.
• Diagnose and fix issues in live game services.
• Deploy multiple backend services.

Skills

C#

Communication

Cloud Services

CI/CD

Back-end Service Development

Job description

What is your role?

As a Back-end Engineer for Eleventh Hour Games, you'll be responsible for a wide range of tasks across many parts of Last Epoch's back-end services. This includes new feature development, debugging, and optimization for player data, chat and other key online services. You will be encouraged to use your experience and expertise to provide innovative solutions and drive best practices across the back-end team. The perfect candidate hasexcellent communication skills, and autonomy as you will be working with a fully remote team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of developing/supporting online services, 2+ years within an industry role
  
• Demonstrable command of C# or similar language
  
• Experience with cloud providers (Azure specifically a plus)
• Experience with CI/CD, working on a live service with a regular release cadence
  
• Knowledge of back-end service development for online games

Pluses

• Familiarity with multiplayer online games and ARPGs in particular
  
• At least 1 Shipped title
• Experience with Unity

Responsibilities

• Develop online game features such as in-game economy, leaderboards, and matchmaking
• Diagnose and fix issues in live game services
• Deploy multiple backend services
• Expectation of weekly on-call rotation for emergency service notifications (Pager Duty)
  

Why Eleventh Hour Games?
EHG is a fast growing Indie Studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs. We value open communication, close-knit teamwork, and opportunity for ownership and growth! Our mission is to gather and empower the next generation of creators to forge extraordinary games. Extraordinary games build passionate communities, which create passionate people. Passionate people turn into next year's creators.With our debut titleLast Epoch,we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!

• Flexible fully remote working arrangements
• Team focused environment, including casual game nights
• 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 5 floating holidays at the start of each year (increased with company tenure)
• 90% paid health coverage premiums for U.S. based employees +dependents
• Dental, Vision for U.S. based employees + dependents
• 401K for U.S. based employees
  
  

EHG is committed to full inclusion, and is an equal opportunity employer. As part of this commitment, EHG will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please [e-mail] note, general employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here.