Senior Software Engineer

Easy Good Game Inc.; San Diego (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative game studio as a backend engineer, where you'll tackle exciting challenges in game development. In this role, you'll work on high-scale systems that support millions of players, focusing on server orchestration, matchmaking, and database services. With a flexible remote work option, you'll collaborate with a dedicated team to create robust services for popular games like BedWars and Islands. If you're passionate about gaming and possess strong backend engineering skills, this is your chance to make a significant impact in the gaming industry.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience required.
• 4+ years of experience with complex backend systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate services for millions of players.
• Collaborate with game developers to build user-facing services.

Skills

NodeJS

NestJS

TypeScript

Document Databases

Relational Databases

Event Driven Architectures

GCP

Cloud Services

Kubernetes

Job description

About Us

Easy Games is an independent game studio building high scale multiplayer games. We are a small team with a massive audience of over 20M monthly users with peaks of over 350k concurrent players.

The Role

Our Platform Services team is looking for engineers to help us build services and infrastructure for a new unannounced project, as well as our two live games, BedWars and Islands.

You will be joining a small team of engineers working on interesting problems in the game development space such as:

• Server Orchestration
• Matchmaking
• Database Services
• Inventory and Game Economy

You will be responsible for owning the design, development, and operation of services supporting millions of players every day. You will work closely with game developers and the platform team to build both user facing and internal services with a high level of autonomy.

Technologies

An exceptional candidate will have significant experience with many or all of the following:

• NodeJS + NestJS/TypeScript
• Document and Relational Databases
• Event Driven Architectures
• GCP/Cloud Services
• Kubernetes

The Fit

We are looking for the following:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• 4+ years of experience working on complex backend systems
• Capable individual contributor
• Experience with high scale systems, preferably related to game backends

Location

It is acceptable for this role to be fully remote anywhere in the US. Expected working hours are centered around our San Diego office.