Remote Staff Services Engineer

Summary

Join Theorycraft as a Staff Services Engineer and build robust, scalable backend services for our games. You will ensure players can log in, play, and make purchases. We're a small, ambitious team that values speed, collaboration, and player focus. We offer competitive salaries ($80k-$225k), generous equity, and excellent benefits. We prioritize work-life balance with distributed work, unlimited PTO, and family-friendly policies. If you enjoy working with diverse disciplines and making a big impact, we encourage you to apply.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing backend services or DevOps
• Expertise with one or more server-side development languages
• Fluency in both Mandarin or Korean and English; including excellent written and verbal communication in both languages

Responsibilities

• Write robust and reliable core backend services that scale gracefully and are easy to understand and operate
• Ensure that our players can do such critical things as - log in, play games, and buy stuff in our store

Preferred Qualifications

• Thrive with a lot of freedom and responsibility
• Wear a lot of different hats comfortably
• Always acting on behalf of the player

Benefits

• Equity as a significant portion of every full-time employee’s compensation
• Performance based bonuses and profit sharing (future consideration)
• Competitive base salaries
• Generous equity packages for full-time employees
• Base salary range for all roles, including this one, is $80k-$225k
• Unlimited, open PTO
• Health, vision, dental insurance for you and your family
• Annual game budget
• Distributed work (within 3 timezones of PST)
• Regular, in-person meetups to stay connected as a team