Senior Software Engineer II, Backend

Summary

Join Second Dinner, an award-winning remote-first game development studio, as a core member of the backend engineering team. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, integrate, and maintain new features on our cloud-native server stack. This role requires strong experience with AWS or other cloud providers, .NET/C# or similar languages, and cloud data storage. You will actively participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and be part of the on-call rotation. The position offers a competitive salary, equity, comprehensive benefits, and potential performance bonuses. Second Dinner values diversity and inclusion and is committed to creating a fun and innovative work environment.

Requirements

• The skills necessary to write simple, readable, and maintainable code
• Strong experience operating multi-region services in AWS or other cloud providers
• Familiarity deploying and maintaining cloud native applications using Infrastructure as Code tools
• Extensive experience building and optimizing applications in .NET/C# or similar languages
• Experience configuring observability tools and troubleshooting live service issues
• Hands-on experience with cloud data storage, such as AWS S3, or DynamoDB
• Ability to identify security vulnerabilities
• Awesome technical and personal communication skills
• Passion for playing and making great games

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and idea sharing
• Design and lead the integration of new features into a cloud-native server stack
• Demonstrate initiative in taking ownership of key system components
• Implement and refine tools and frameworks for cross-discipline development teams
• Be part of the on-call rotation to ensure server uptime
• Enable rapid feature development without cutting quality
• Create and maintain documentation for live ops, debugging, and general knowledge

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with serverless applications on AWS
• Experience with globally scalable distributed systems
• Experience with data processing and analytics tools
• Experience with Git
• Experience with machine learning services
• Game development experience

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans with Second Dinner paying 100% of premiums for employees and 75% for dependents for many plans
• 401(k) contribution with no waiting period
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with no waiting period
• Home office improvement bonus
• Paid Vacation & Sick time
• Up to 10 BetterHelp sessions covered each benefits plan year
• Remote-first with core overlap hours between 10AM and 4PM PT
• Company Winter Holiday shutdown (Dec 25-Jan 1)
• Company Summer Holiday shutdown (week of July 4)
• Company Events - In-person Summer all-hands gathering, in-person holiday party, and virtual events throughout the year