Senior Backend Engineer, Core Services
Job Summary
Job Description
Limit Break seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for its Core Services team in Tokyo. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance backend services for real-time online games and applications, prioritizing security and scalability. Responsibilities include writing clean, testable code, establishing best practices, collaborating with product teams, researching new technologies, and mentoring junior engineers. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of backend development experience, proficiency in Go, Node.js, Python, or C#, familiarity with relational databases, Docker, and AWS, and a strong understanding of web application development and blockchain technology.
Must have:
- 5+ years backend experience
- Proficiency in Go/Node.js/Python/C#
- Relational DBs & Unix networking
- Docker & Containerization
- High-performance service design
Good to have:
- AWS & cloud-native apps
- React/Unity/C# experience
- Web3 & blockchain expertise
- Full-stack development skills
10 skills required
Job Details
Senior Backend Engineer, Core Services
Location: Tokyo, Japan
About us:
Deep expertise. Personal and Industry evolution. Impeccable craft. These are Limit Break’s founding principles.
Limit Break is founded by global industry leaders in mobile gaming. We are unlocking its potential beyond games to transform digital markets into real-world economies and digital worlds into vibrant communities who will take gaming economies for both players and traders to new limits. We combine the power of technology, crypto currency, and creative vision to create experiences that connect people from all corners of the globe.
Limit Break is backed by leading investors that include Buckley Ventures & Paradigm Ventures. The total crypto market capitalization increased by 25 times in a single year. The adoption rate and a number of public and private partnerships is proving it to be the next wave of technology of the future and Gaming is leading the way.
About the Role:
Limit Break is looking for experienced backend systems software engineers to join our Core Services team. As a senior member of the team, you will be in a position to influence our best practices and processes, and to create a truly customer-driven culture from the ground up.
This is a unique opportunity for an intellectually curious and hardworking team player to help the organization truly shape engineering in blockchain technologies.
Responsibilities:
● Design, develop and maintain high-performance backend services that enable real-time online games and applications with emphasis on security & scalability
● Write clean, well-tested production quality code that is reusable and maintainable
● Establish and champion processes, pipelines, and best practices for backend application development, and server API design
● Partner with the product teams to translate requirements into effective action items, and show willingness to prototype quickly
● Identify opportunities to research new (open-source) technologies, libraries, tools and incorporate new techniques to maximize workflow efficiencies
● When required, provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers on backend application development
Requirements. Who you are and what you've done.
● B.S. in Computer Science, or a related field
● 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in backend/server-side development with production services at high scale
● Experience across the full software development lifecycle from requirements definition through testing and deployment
● Proficient with one of the following technologies: GO, Node.js, Python, C#
● Understanding of relational databases and basic unix networking (files, sockets)
● Experience with Docker and containerization
● Strong sense of initiative and ownership
● A "roll up your sleeves" mindset to get any job done
What an ideal candidate looks like:
● Experience with AWS and building cloud native applications
● Good understanding of web application development, demonstrating awareness and following of industry trends and best practices
● Experience with full stack development, particularly with one of the following: React, Unity/C#
● Experience and interest in Web3 and blockchain technology
● A security and sustainability/scalability focused mindset
Apply now:
If you are confident, driven and are looking for an exciting role, this job could be a great opportunity for you. Apply to careers@limitbreak.com to explore this new opportunity. This is an international blockchain gaming company that operates regionally, and is opening offices in multiple locations around the globe. We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
Apply now:
If you are confident, driven and are looking for an exciting role, this job could be a great opportunity for you. Apply to careers@limitbreak.com to explore this new opportunity. This is an international blockchain gaming company that operates regionally, and is opening offices in multiple locations around the globe. We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
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