Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Location: United States (Remote)

Work Type: Contract

Role Overview

Our organization is seeking Senior Software Engineers to write core backend services and tools that ensure high global quality of service for games in our studio. You will utilize your experience with platforms and microservices to build reliable, scalable systems that are easy to understand and operate. Drawing on your experience with engineering best practices, you will ensure our testing and deployment technology remains top of the line while working collaboratively with other backend service teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and building of services required to support studio games within the team services group

• Work in a variety of technical capacities, contributing to code bases in multiple languages and technology stacks

• Write and review reliable, maintainable code, and author architectural design documents

• Work with product and engineering leadership to identify opportunities in the game space that benefit from new service development or refinement

• Coordinate work and maintain relationships with partner service teams across the broader organization ecosystem

• Participate in rotational support for live products and operational assessments

• Work collaboratively with non-technical stakeholders to accomplish deliverables

• Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience: Four or more years of deep, hands-on programming experience in at least one of the following languages: C/C++, Java, Go, Python, or C#.

• Technical

Skills

• Proven experience operating and maintaining live web services, troubleshooting live issues, and developing fault-tolerant distributed systems from the ground up, including requirements gathering, architecture design, project breakdown, and execution. Demonstrated experience defining team-level technical processes such as code reviews and testing is required.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud services such as AWS or Azure

• Experience developing and operating services at scale

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

• Familiarity with data pipelines, telemetry, testing frameworks, and experiment-driven development

• Experience within Gaming

• The organization offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. There are additional programs such as a Health Savings Account, an Employee Assistance Program with counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, there is access to on-demand training, certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after a period of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to professional associations.

• Our organization is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered in accordance with applicable law.

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