We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Senior Game Server Engineer to develop the backend of a brand-new game project. You will collaborate with design and engineering peers to create new features, systems, and technology for our game.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement new game features in a scalable and high-performing manner


• Collaborate with design, client and QA teams to guide features from conception to deployment


• Oversee and evolve existing system architecture


• Maintain, optimize and debug existing code base


• Deploy, evaluate performance, optimize and test software on the server


• Integrate third-party APIs and/or platforms

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience


• 5+ years of Java or other OOP programming language


• Experience producing server applications through the full product lifecycle with responsibility for major features


• Experience designing and maintaining RDBMS schemas and queries


• Excellent problem-solving skills and judgment


• Proficient in debugging and performance optimizations


• Highly-motivated self-starter with a passion for making high quality software


• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal


• Strong sense of ownership and drive


• Positive, enthusiastic attitude with ability to interact with cross-departmental groups Pluses


• Experience with Scala or other modern functional programming languages


• Experience developing video games, in particular mobile games with a large audience


• Experience developing Reactive, message-driven systems


• Experience with Akka, Actors, Streams


• Experience with Protocol Buffers and gRPC


• Experience with MySQL


• Experience with JPA or Hibernate ORM


• Experience with Redis


• Experience deploying software in a cloud-based, Linux environment


• Passion for video games