Senior Backend Developer

About this job

Location options: Visa sponsor, Paid relocation
Job type: Full-time
Experience level: Senior
Role: Backend Developer
Industry: Mobile Game
Company size: 11–50 people
Company type: Private

Technologies

azure, .net, orleans, kubernetes, docker

Job description

We are seeking a passionate programmer ready to join an exciting, growing studio. You should be comfortable with working across disciplines, able to take initiative and independently find creative solutions to complex problems. We strive for technical excellence and need you to venture outside of your comfort zone, learning and implementing new technologies.

What you will do:

• Implement and maintain Microservices for our in-house developed game server platform
• Use a modern stack based on Kubernetes, .NET Core, Microsoft Orleans, SignalR Core, NoSQL and PostgreSQL
• Work closely with game designers and client developers to implement new game features
• Iterate and improve upon our game server platform for current and future games
• Develop integrations with Azure, Firebase, App Store and other external services/platforms
• Write tests to ensure the code really does what it needs to, and keeps on doing so
• Maintain our Kubernetes/Helm definitions and Azure DevOps based CI/CD pipeline
• Support and mentor more junior developers
• Be creative and vocal to improve the development team and process

How you will do this:

• You are quality-oriented and meticulous
• You make realistic time estimates and know your limits and weaknesses
• You have excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• You research, prototype, experiment and even fail, and learn from your mistakes
• You balance the technical value versus the business value, and keep us honest and on track

What we have done recently:

• Code-base wide cleanup, streamlined our collection of Microservices and paid off our tech debt
• Fully automated our CI/CD pipeline with multiple environments and frictionless zero-downtime deployments to production
• Re-envisioned our in-house game server platform to support delayed authority and local simulation on game clients
• Updated to the latest version of all backend libraries, tools and platform used, and kept up-to-date since
• Enabled the Art and Design department to deploy asset and game data changes without technical assistance
• Contributed enhancements and fixes to open source projects such as Microsoft Orleans and SignalR

Please submit your application, CV and include links to any external projects, GitHub repositories, LinkedIn profile, etc.