What you will do

• Serve as part of a larger architecture, engineering, development, and testing team, collaborating to build, evolve, and optimize our applications and services, for load time and performance
• Help design and build the back-end services needed for online game features (e.g. Authentication, Leaderboards, Events, Matchmaking)
• Help design and build the tools and internal-facing dashboards to drive our Live-Ops operations (e.g. Analytics, Event Scheduling, Customer Service tools)
• Understand and implement security and data protection
• Ensure game service scalability through effective code and data storage design principles
• Collaborate across disciplines to carry features from initial concept to completion
• Maintain code quality and integrity to ensure responsiveness of applications
• Participate in tech design and code review processes
• Work with other engineers to develop tools and processes that improve efficiency and quality
• Maintain thorough knowledge of the programming languages, platforms, frameworks, and APIs required to support the game project(s)
• Assist in developing and updating feature documentation for code and services, working with Senior Engineers to maintain a shared library of tech and process documentation

Skills and Abilities

• Professional level understanding of web front-end and back-end languages and technologies (e.g. React, JavaScript, CSS and HTML)
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases, configuring web servers and working in a cloud environment (e.g. AWS)
• Understanding of networking concepts, protocols, scalability, and load testing of cloud-based systems
• Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including Object Oriented Programming, data structures, unit testing and documentation
• Ability to objectively evaluate code as part of a formal review process
• Ability to communicate effectively and build partnerships across disciplines
• Strong desire to iterate and improve on inefficient processes
• Able to manage multiple, competing tasks and be self-directed in a quickly evolving environment
• Positive attitude and ability to receive and provide objective and constructive feedback
• Excellent organization skills

Education and Experience

• Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related degree, or equivalent work experience
• Experience in building scalable web applications using a language like C#, Java, or Node.js
• Understanding of the software development life cycle, and practices
• Experience supporting a live service
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, or other defect tracking software
• Experience with Git and Perforce for source control
• Knowledge about the latest trends in web, mobile web, accessibility, and site performance

Nice to Have

• Game industry development experience in a related role
• Experience with Unity and C#
• Experience with scaling multiplayer servers and services