Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Backend Engineer at Limit Break, a global blockchain gaming company. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance backend services, writing clean, well-tested production quality code, establishing best practices, partnering with product teams, and providing technical mentorship.

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science, or a related field
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in backend/server-side development with production services at high scale
• Proficient with one of the following technologies: GO, Node.js , Python, C#
• Understanding of relational databases and basic unix networking (files, sockets)
• Experience with Docker and containerization

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain high-performance backend services that enable real-time online games and applications with emphasis on security & scalability
• Write clean, well-tested production quality code that is reusable and maintainable
• Establish and champion processes, pipelines, and best practices for backend application development, and server API design
• Partner with the product teams to translate requirements into effective action items, and show willingness to prototype quickly
• Identify opportunities to research new (open-source) technologies, libraries, tools and incorporate new techniques to maximize workflow efficiencies
• When required, provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers on backend application development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and building cloud native applications
• Good understanding of web application development, demonstrating awareness and following of industry trends and best practices
• Experience with full stack development, particularly with one of the following: React, Unity/C#
• Experience and interest in Web3 and blockchain technology
• A security and sustainability/scalability focused mindset