Senior Backend Engineer
4/5 hour crossover with GMT+8 requried, location not important.
Employer is based in Singapore
$8-10,000 per month
We are working with a retained client that has a culture that celebrates diversity and is dedicated to making games that make players smile.
Fresh from anothe successful launch, they are looking for an experienced and skilled Backend Engineer who is passionate about delivering the highest quality of service to their players. You will join a cross-functional and dynamic team of developers, and will work to build services that enhance the online experience for players.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Working on our proprietary game server using Java or similar object-oriented server-side language
- Executing and implementing features for the product as well as to empower the team
- Improving system stability by following and encouraging best practices like agile development and test-driven development
- Collaborating on system design
- Participating in peer code reviews
- Contributing to the decisions that shape the products and the company by giving as well as receiving feedback
As a successful candidate, you would have:
- Shipped multiple features and projects in a live environment
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related is strongly preferred
- 5+ years of development experience
- Experience of full life cycle from Pre-launch, Launch to Maintenance
- Possess a high sense of quality and polish and pride in the work you deliver
Experience or understanding of the following technologies is helpful to the position; the more the better, but expertise in all is not expected - on the job learning and training is highly supported.
- Java 8
- TCP / UDP Sockets programming
- Microservices - Tracing / Service Discovery / Inter-Service Messaging / Monitoring
- Performant and scalable data - NoSQL / In-memory datastore
- Containers - Docker / Kubernetes
- Production experience with integration and stress testing
- Continuous Integration and Build Automation - Gradle / Ansible / Jenkins
- Automatic Monitoring and Maintenance - Unix / Bash / Prometheus / Grafana / ELK
- Using managed services listed above on AWS and/or Google Cloud
- Developing high volume and performance-critical services
- Experience with game engine - Unity / C#
If you want to be part of a team that's committed to transparency and openness, then we may have the place for you!
