Senior Backend Engineer

About ProbablyMonsters’ Battle Barge Team

Our mission is to create boundless adventures that bring people together. We believe shared experiences build connections and give us a sense of belonging. By involving players in our development process, we build richer and more vibrant worlds that become welcoming places for everyone to gather. We are currently working on an unannounced, original AAA Co-op RPG and warmly welcome those ready to take on new challenges and grow in a highly collaborative and supportive team environment.

The Role

Our studio is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is passionate about strong, healthy and collaborative teams that support each other to create the best game experiences.

Who You Are

You enjoy building things quickly, without sacrificing quality. You enjoy enabling your game's multiplayer experiences. You understand the networking requirements and challenges involved in creating those experiences. You enjoy the scalability challenges that come from getting thousands of players to play together online. You understand how to design for horizontal scaling in the application layer. You are comfortable diagnosing and fixing race conditions that crop up in multi-threaded and distributed systems. You know how to design your high concurrency systems to avoid such race conditions. You believe that good software design correlates with testability. You carry around a soapbox ready to help spread the word. You enjoy working on a smaller team, where your contributions have a large impact. You don't mind swimming outside your lane to get done what needs doing.

What You Will Do

You will help design and implement a scalable and secure game server architecture. You will integrate our game client and server with backend service APIs or SDKs to improve existing and enable new functionality. You will help identify and eliminate scalability bottlenecks. You will help identify and eliminate any security flaws in our networked message flows. You will implement backend/server-side features as required by our gameplay needs. You will improve our productivity and the stability of our code base through writing unit and integration tests.

Qualifications

You have a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent. You have 4-5 years of experience. You enjoy working primarily in C++. You write and believe in the importance of unit tests.

Preferred Skills

Experience with Unreal Engine (and Blueprints). Experience building games in a cross-discipline team environment. Experience running a live service. Proficiency with (or willingness to learn) one or all of C#, Python, and/or JavaScript (read: TypeScript). Knowledge of and respect for Object-Oriented design patterns.

Benefits
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401(k)
Medical Coverage - health, dental, and vision paid at 100% for the employee
Dependents subsidized by the Company
Healthcare spending accounts
Dependent care spending accounts
Life and AD&D insurance
Paid holidays and vacation
Bereavement leave
Parental leave

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