Senior Software Engineer

Easy Good Game Inc.; San Diego (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Easy Good Game Inc., a leading independent game studio, seeks experienced engineers for their Platform Services team. The position focuses on building and maintaining infrastructures for high-scale multiplayer games, using cutting-edge technologies. Candidates should possess substantial experience in software engineering and backend systems, with the role offering the flexibility of remote work across the US.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years of experience with complex backend systems.
• Experience with high scale systems, especially in games.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate services for millions of players.
• Work closely with developers to build user-facing and internal services.
• Solve interesting problems in server orchestration and matchmaking.

Skills

Backend Systems

Software Engineering

High Scale Systems

Event Driven Architectures

Tools

NodeJS

NestJS

TypeScript

GCP

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.