Core Team C++ Architect

Scorewarrior is a game developer and publisher from Limassol, Cyprus. The company is focused on the 4X strategy genre with an ambitious goal to grow it’s hit game Total Battle to become the No.1 strategy game in the world. Our team consists of 150+ passionate, talented, self-demanding, and constantly developing professionals who love making high-quality games.

Our mission: to unite and excite people all over the world.

If you're passionate about software design, understand backend development, and love creating APIs and tools for other developers - we have an offer for you!

We are looking for a C++ Architect to join our Core Team. 

Our game project contains about 500 thousand lines of code, and the unified game world is distributed across hundreds of service instances. We continuously implement new game mechanics, and the project continues to grow. Our main goal is to ensure scalability, flexibility, quality, and ease of development for new game features.

Example tasks:

• Interacting with the game development team: analyzing problems, gathering requirements, and developing solutions.
• Developing modular and flexible solutions for game mechanics and convenient APIs in our libraries for game backend services.
• Refactoring legacy code: transitioning from god objects and dependency-hell into a modular architecture following best practices.
• Researching and implementing new approaches to accelerate game feature development (e.g., finding high-level abstractions, implementing scripting language).
• Extending object-relational mapping (ORM) capabilities for more flexible database storage.
• Improving network code efficiency and asynchronous I/O operations.
• Optimizing CPU/MEM resource usage.
• Optimizing interaction with databases and third-party services.
• Creating and maintaining developer’s documentation.

Examples of our developments:

• Custom request handlers, timers, and background tasks.
• Unit of Work for ensuring entity change atomicity, with the ability to rollback or save changes in memory and write to database.
• ORM - working with data from code without writing SQL queries.
• Code generator for binary RPC, ORM, and other automations.
• Pub/sub event system for game clients and inter-function communication.
• Message System for data exchange between game functions (including S2S).
• Expression interpreter for game configuration by game designers.
• Real-time telemetry system.

Key skills:

• C++ (5+ years): good knowledge of 17+ standard and popular libraries.
• Backend (3+ years): solid knowledge of server technologies and Linux operations.
• Software Design: experience in designing and writing simple and maintainable code, knowledge of design principles and patterns, familiarity with common architecture types.
• API Development: ability to design intuitive and extensible solutions for developers.
• Multithreading experience: experience with threads, preventing race conditions, deadlocks, lock contention; understanding of coroutines.
• Networking: knowledge of IP, TCP, UDP, experience with TCP, HTTP, REST/RPC and asynchronous APIs.
• Databases: experience with relational and NoSQL databases, caching and cache invalidation.
• Python: knowledge or willingness to quickly learn for creating utilities and code generation.
• C#: knowledge or willingness to learn for maintaining the C# version of the SDK.
• Testing: experience in writing unit and integration tests.

Nice to have:

• Code samples that you can show.
• Understanding of the gaming industry and terminology.
• Game development experience.
• Basic knowledge of Cloud and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of other programming languages.

We use:

1. C++20, Clang, CMake.
2. Boost, ASIO, libfmt.
3. PostgreSQL, Redis, Google Spanner.
4. GitLab, TeamCity, Ansible.
5. SonarQube, clang-tidy, clang-format.

Python for utilities and code generator.

1. C# ASP.Net for one of the services.
2. OS: Ubuntu.

What we offer and our benefits:

• The best team in the world!
• An excellent remuneration package, including a 13th salary.
• Full-coverage relocation for you and your family to Cyprus (Limassol).
• A modern and sunny office space close to the sea.
• Private health insurance for you and your family members.
• A monthly school allowance for your children at pre-school and school-age.
• Lunch compensation.
• Personal development opportunities paid for by the company: professional and language courses, books, etc.
• Bonuses for outstanding results, years worked, getting married, and the birth of a child.
• Friendly monthly office parties and epic, annual offsite company birthday and Christmas parties.