Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our clients online Mobile MMO that has also recently shipped their project on the Nintendo Switch. They're an award-winning gaming studio.

What are the core responsibilities?

• Create and maintain high volume C++ game server systems to sync player state in a reliable, secure, and scalable manner
• Create and maintain high volume Golang supporting backend services
• Monitor and diagnose problems in the live environment, fixing them in a timely manner
• Keep improving our backend architecture and development workflow to deliver the optimal experience to the player, as well as benefit everyone in the studio
• Help guide future multiplayer technology, systems, and architecture design

What are the minimum requirements?

• Have 3+ years experience working on the back-end for an MMO or high-volume, low-latency web services
• Be fluent in C++
• Be comfortable working with game client teams to support network communication
• Experience with UDP, bit-level serialization, delta compression, and other techniques for developing efficient network code for real time games
• Be comfortable integrating with external backend services via various protocols
• Have strong opinions on the different approaches to managing network communication, resource scaling, automated deployment, security, reliability, and data tracking/analysis
• Be familiar with creating unit tests, stress tests, and integration tests
• Be proficient debugging in network environments
• Be proficient in Linux

What will earn you bonus points?

• Have experience with AWS or GCP
• Have experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker
• Have experience with bare metal deployment
• Have experience with both relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
• Have experience with Golang, or Erlang and functional programming