Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• ▹Design, build, and maintain live service functionality supporting multiple games, such as messaging, VOIP, lobbies, inventory, matchmaking and microtransactions
• ▹Work with distributed backend systems in a live service environment handling millions of players' data
• ▹Collaborate within your team and with other teams to build highly-scalable, secure and reliable online services
• ▹Innovate and explore new technologies, improving tooling, workflows and architecture for online systems

Requirements

• ▹Strong programming skills and 5+ years of professional experience with Go
• ▹Experience with large-scale data-intensive systems
• ▹Experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments, preferably GCP
• ▹The ability and passion to take ownership and drive work forward
• ▹A curious mindset and comfort working in a highly collaborative environment
• ▹Professional English communication skills

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with cloud-native databases, specifically Google Spanner
• ▹Experience building or operating authentication systems using OpenID or similar standards
• ▹Some years of professional experience with C++
• ▹Experience working with game engines, specifically Unreal Engine

What we offer

• ▹Competitive salaries
• ▹Passionate colleagues to share knowledge with

About the company

Embark Studios' game services group powers player-facing online functionality and manages highly scalable backend systems. Core technologies include Go, C++, Unreal Engine 5, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), SQL (using Google Spanner), Redis, Kubernetes and Bazel.