Senior Software Engineer

10 Months ago • 6 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $140,000 PA - $160,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Easy Games, a game studio with a massive audience of over 20 million monthly users, is seeking engineers for its Platform Services team. You will contribute to building services and infrastructure for new and live games, tackling challenges like server orchestration, matchmaking, database services, and inventory management. Responsibilities include owning the design, development, and operation of services supporting millions of players, collaborating closely with game developers, and building user-facing and internal services with autonomy. Experience with NodeJS, NestJS/TypeScript, databases, event-driven architectures, GCP/Cloud Services, and Kubernetes is highly valued.
Must have:
  • 6+ years software engineering experience
  • 4+ years complex backend systems
  • Capable individual contributor
  • High scale systems experience
Good to have:
  • NodeJS + NestJS/TypeScript
  • Document and Relational Databases
  • Event Driven Architectures
  • GCP/Cloud Services
  • Kubernetes

Job Details

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.

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