Senior Backend Engineer - Arcade Platform & Real-Time

Triumph Arcade; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch credit

Health care

Vision

Dental

401k

Job summary

Triumph Arcade is seeking a backend engineer to own large parts of our engineering system and push for rapid, reliable delivery. The role emphasizes owning production-grade features and collaborating across teams to scale a consumer platform with gaming, finance, and social aspects.

You will focus on game modes, matchmaking, real-time multiplayer, rewards personalization, and fraud prevention. The team values high energy, autonomy, and growth opportunities in a fast-paced, SF-based environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer (Go is nice).
• Experience with storage systems (e.g., databases, object stores, or distributed file systems).
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across work streams within your team and contribute to your peers' success.
• A strong personal slope and desire to grow one's career.

Responsibilities

• Build backend features for Triumph Arcade to support core metrics.
• Pair players by skill for fast and fair matches in real-time multiplayer environments.
• Own game servers, latency, and result settlement for live matches.
• Develop personalization for rewards/offers and improvements to fraud detection and payments.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go programming

Collaboration

Growth mindset

Tools

Databases

Object storage

Distributed file systems

Job description

Triumph Arcade is seeking a backend engineer to own large parts of our engineering system and push for rapid, reliable delivery. The role emphasizes owning production-grade features and collaborating across teams to scale a consumer platform with gaming, finance, and social aspects.

You will focus on game modes, matchmaking, real-time multiplayer, rewards personalization, and fraud prevention. The team values high energy, autonomy, and growth opportunities in a fast-paced, SF-based environment.