Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Escape Velocity as a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, implement, and debug high-performance backend infrastructure. Collaborate with developers, work with industry-standard engines, and identify technical risks.

Requirements

• 2+ years designing robust, high performance scalable systems, or else solid experience with C++
• Experience using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud technologies, preferably any of the following AWS, Azure and Google cloud
• Experience with Unix like operating systems
• Commitment to code quality, documentation and sound testing procedures
• Ability to learn and master new technologies and code
• Ability to work independently and efficiently under deadlines
• Realtime multiplayer peer to peer or client server experience
• Shipped one or more game titles
• Experience developing for game consoles is a plus

Responsibilities

• Design and coordinate the implementation of a new backend infrastructure that will be high performance, reliable and scalable
• Collaborate with other developers to integrate the online backend features in the game
• Work with industry-standard engines such as Unity and UE5 and build new technology in order to fulfil the project’s technical requirements
• Identify technical and developmental risks/obstacles and generate solutions to overcome identified risks
• Provide the other leads with feedback regarding the time allotted to assigned tasks