Senior Backend Engineer

Company: Sfermion
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: September 21, 2023

Job Description:

About LunchboxWe are a group of passionate developers dedicated to creating the next generation of online games.Job DescriptionLunchbox Entertainment is looking for an experienced Gaming Backend Engineer to join our team developing a custom in-house multiplayer backend platform to support our upcoming MOBA project. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Support the exploration and analysis of functional and business requirements
• Collaborate in the design of new features for implementation in the existing platform
• Develop modifications and additions to the backend platform codebase. This includes but is not limited to: APIs, Services, Data Schemas, Web Dashboards and User Interfaces.
• Change and enhance the game code to enable and maintain integration points with the backend platform.
• Write code that queries and writes data to and from relational databases, message queues and in memory caches.
• Diagnose and resolve issues and bug tickets.
• Build unit tests, error and debug logs, monitoring, metrics and analytics tools as well as design and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with QA and Unity Developers by participating in playtests and working sessions aimed at reproducing and diagnosing bugs and issues.
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers in the design and implementation of infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to support the deployment, execution and monitoring of the backend platform and its associated services.
• Work alongside third party vendors and external service providers to support the ongoing interoperability between our backend platform and external systems such as: matchmaking, server fleet management and cloud infrastructure, among others.
• Participate in supporting the ongoing live execution of the platform and during internal playtests, beta testing and production releases. What you'll get to do
  • Build a custom globally accessible multiplayer platform expected to be accessed by a high numbers of concurrent players.
  • Play a role in defining the next generation of responsible free-to-play social games.
  • Work with a multidisciplinary team made up of experts from gaming as well as other industries from across the world.
  • Participate from the early stages throughout the entirety of a new platform's lifecycle.What We're Looking For
    • Passion for technology and video games
    • Familiarity developing server side cloud applications in a microservices architecture.
    • Working knowledge about communicating applications via diverse mechanisms such as RPCs, REST APIs, Message Queues, etc.
    • Experience working with strongly typed, object oriented programming languages and related code analysis tools.
    • A history developing multiplayer gaming platforms in one or more of the following areas: MatchmakingAnalytics, Inventory Management, Player Accounts, Authentication, Social Features, Competitive Gameplay, Admin DashboardsScalabilityNice to Have
      • Prior experience with Kotlin
      • Understanding of gRPC
      • Experience working with AWS
      • Knowledge of Kubernetes
      • Experience working in Unity
      • Working knowledge of C#
      • Experience working with Mirror networking$80,000 - $160,000 a year
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