Software Engineer III

9 Hours ago • 6 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Server Engineer will report to the Technical Director. Responsibilities include designing, developing, and running a fast, scalable, highly available game service from conception to delivery to live service operations. The role also involves collaborating with designers, client engineering, and production teams, implementing security best practices, creating and running automated testing, and monitoring server infrastructure performance and costs. Additionally, the engineer will design and implement data transformation layers and collaborate with other teams to define API contracts, and manage release and live operations for web services.
Must have:
  • 6+ years of experience in developing scalable back-end services
  • BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
  • Proficiency in PHP, Java
  • Experience with Cloud services like Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
  • Experience with Redis
  • Experience with Database Design and usage of large datasets
  • Experience defining API contracts and collaborating with cross-functional teams
Good to have:
  • 3+ years of experience developing games using cloud services like AWS
  • Proficient in technical planning, solution research, proposal, and implementation
  • Background using metrics and analytics to determine the quality or priority
  • Comfortable working across client and server codebases
  • Familiar with profiling, optimising, and debugging scalable data systems
  • Passion for making and playing games

Job Details

The Server Engineer will report to the Technical Director.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and run a fast, scalable, highly available game service all the way from conception to delivery to live service operations

  • Work with designers, client engineering, and production teams to achieve gameplay goals

  • Implement security best practices and original techniques to keep user data secure and prevent cheating

  • Create and run automated testing, readiness testing, and deployment plans

  • Monitor the performance and costs of the server infrastructure to improve our game

  • Design and implement data transformation layers using Java/Spring/AWS/Protobuf

  • Collaborate with game server and web frontend teams to define API contracts

  • Manage Release Ops / Live Ops of web services

Qualifications:

We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialogue to be considered.

  • 6+ years development of scalable back-end services

  • BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

  • Proficiency in PHP, Java

  • Experience with Cloud services like Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform

  • Experience with Redis

  • Experience with Database Design and usage of large datasets in both relational (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (Couchbase, DynamoDB) environments

  • Experience defining API contracts and collaborating with cross-functional teams

Bonus:

  • 3+ years of experience developing games using cloud services like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or similar

  • Proficient in technical planning, solution research, proposal, and implementation

  • Background using metrics and analytics to determine the quality or priority

  • Comfortable working across client and server codebases

  • Familiar with profiling, optimising, and debugging scalable data systems

  • Passion for making and playing games



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