Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems for mobile games.
- Lead technical design, implementation, debugging and optimization of game features.
- Collaborate with game designers and frontend software engineers for game feature implementation.
- Identify potential technical risks and provide technical advice for mitigation.
- Ensure the security and integrity of backend systems and user data.
- Write clean, maintainable, performant and well-documented code.
- Troubleshoot and resolve backend-related issues in a timely manner.
- Collaborate with other senior engineers to establish coding standards, best practices and development processes.
- Create and maintain technical documentation for code, systems, tools, processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience building backend systems or game services
- Experience on cloud computing platforms like AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Experience with designing, developing scalable, production-ready architecture for large systems from scratch
- Experience building high-quality software in languages like Go, Java, Python, Javascript
- Experience with building RESTful APIs.
- Solid understanding of game architecture, design patterns, and software engineering principles.
- Solid understanding of DevOps practices, continuous integration, and deployment pipelines.
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Passion for gaming and a drive to create engaging experiences for players.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience with building backend systems for mobile games.
- Prior experience in game development.
- Leadership experience and the ability to mentor junior engineers.
