Senior Software Engineer

Easy Games, an independent game studio known for high-scale multiplayer games, is seeking engineers for its Platform Services team. The role involves building services and infrastructure for both new and existing live games, BedWars and Islands, which serve millions of players. Key responsibilities include owning the design, development, and operation of services related to server orchestration, matchmaking, database services, and inventory/game economy. The engineer will collaborate closely with game developers and the platform team, working with a high degree of autonomy on user-facing and internal services. Technologies involved include NodeJS, NestJS/TypeScript, Document and Relational Databases, Event Driven Architectures, GCP/Cloud Services, and Kubernetes.

Must Have

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• 4+ years of experience on complex backend systems
• Capable individual contributor
• Experience with high scale systems

Good to Have

• NodeJS + NestJS/TypeScript
• Document and Relational Databases
• Event Driven Architectures
• GCP/Cloud Services
• Kubernetes
• Experience with game backends

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 United States. Expected working hours are centered around our San Diego office.