Quick overview
Job description
About the Role
Join the backend engineering team at a consumer gaming company, building features and systems that support its core product. You will take ownership of significant projects and help the team scale its engineering practices.
What You'll Do
Build and ship consumer-facing backend features that support key business outcomes.
Develop data-driven systems for challenges such as matchmaking and fraud prevention.
Improve engineering processes, including experimentation platforms and CI/CD, to help the team ship efficiently.
What We're Looking For
Five to eight years of backend software engineering experience, ideally in a fast-growing startup or another high-bar engineering environment.
Experience delivering consumer-facing backend features end-to-end with measurable impact and limited direction.
Proficiency in Go, or the ability and willingness to ramp up quickly; familiarity with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with data-driven systems such as matchmaking, fraud prevention, or recommendation engines is helpful.
Background in real-time features, payments, or consumer gaming apps is helpful.
Hands-on experience improving CI/CD pipelines or experimentation platforms is helpful.
A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field is preferred.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $200,000 to $400,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.