Senior Backend Developer
Job Summary
Job Description
- Multiplayer Game Features
- REST APIs
- Database Systems
- C++
- Online Services Architecture
- Matchmaking
- Parties
- Metagame Progression
- Ambitious Team
- Fun Work Culture
5 skills required
Job Details
Within this role you will:
- Work closely with Code Leadership to plan, estimate, and write high-quality robust services and game features.
- Work with the publisher specifying requirements, investigating their technology, and troubleshooting problems.
- Use a wide variety of proprietary server technologies to develop solutions on top of.
- Write technical proposals clearly explaining your ideas and considering potential challenges and alternative approaches.
- Work with designers and gameplay programmers to design and build new server powered gameplay features.
- Liaise with developers from other companies to solve challenging problems affecting multiple titles.
- Document your work including new processes and newly created APIs.
- Contribute to regular code reviews, championing code quality and best practices.
We need you to have:
- Solid understanding of how online services are architected, built, and deployed including the frontend, backend, and DevOps.
- Experience with developing multiplayer game features such as matchmaking, parties, metagame progression systems, commerce, etc.
- Experience with developing and consuming online REST APIs.
- Experience with one or more database systems including their scalability and data integrity concerns.
- Be receptive to critical feedback, evolving designs and iteration.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Initiative.
- Willingness to learn new programming languages and technologies.
- Desire to solve problems, including in other people’s code.
- Knowledge of C++.
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About The Company
Founded in 2003, and celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year, award-winning Sumo Digital employs over 1,200 people globally in the UK, Europe, India and Canada.
Our 17 studios are in Sheffield, Nottingham, Newcastle (Atomhawk and Sumo Newcastle), Brighton (The Chinese Room), Leeds (Red Kite Games), Leamington Spa (Sumo Leamington, Lab42 & Midoki), Warrington in the UK, Pune and Bangalore in India, Wroclaw, Poland and Czech Republic (PixelAnt) and Vancouver, Canada (Atomhawk and Timbre Games).
Developing successful games across all platforms and genres, Sumo is recognised for its versatility, proprietary technology and creativity across a portfolio of games featuring titles for major publishers including Microsoft, Sony, Sega and 2K.
Sumo Digital is part of Sumo Group Ltd.
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