Principal Backend Engineer

Summary

Join 1047 Games, a remote-first game development company, as a passionate and hardworking backend engineer. You will design and implement various game services, including matchmaking, server scaling, and player statistics. The ideal candidate possesses 12+ years of backend engineering experience, expertise in distributed systems, and a strong understanding of maintainability and high reliability. You will be responsible for finding and fixing performance bottlenecks to support millions of concurrent players. The role requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field. Compensation is dependent on geographic location and ranges from $120,000 to $230,000 USD.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 12+ years of backend engineering experience
• Experience solving distributed systems challenges; we look for people who can assess a challenge, craft a scalable solution, and run with implementation
• Ability to serve as a component owner for software with a large user base, with focuses on maintainability and high reliability

Responsibilities

• Designing and writing many of our global and game specific services, including but not limited to matchmaking, game server scaling, player stat tracking, player notifications, user generated content serving, chat, and much more
• Finding and fixing performance bottlenecks with efficient solutions in order to support millions of concurrent players
• Writing performant and maintainable code which includes documentation, unit tests, and integration tests

Preferred Qualifications

• Distributed systems programming experience (we use C#)
• Experience working in fast paced environments (like small startups)
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platform providers
• .NET experience