C# .NET Developer (Backend)

Location: Remote

Salary: Paid in USD; amount not specified

Company

hirify.global is a Cyprus-based game development outsourcing studio operating since 2018, developing full-cycle mobile games, supporting live titles, building prototypes, and delivering porting projects.

What you will do

• Develop backend services for a AAA mobile shooter adaptation of a well-known PC game.
• Design and maintain microservice architectures, service and transaction boundaries, and data schemas.
• Build and operate REST, gRPC, and WebSocket APIs as well as real-time distributed systems.
• Scale services handling thousands of requests per second and tens of thousands of concurrent connections.
• Improve fault tolerance, controlled degradation, observability, and system performance in production.
• Build containerized services, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring dashboards, alerts, and automated tests.

Requirements

• 5+ years of commercial C#/.NET development experience with high-load online services.
• Expert knowledge of asynchronous programming, multithreading, memory management, garbage collection, ASP.NET Core, profiling, and .NET 10.
• Experience with Clean Architecture, DDD, SOLID, distributed systems, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
• Strong PostgreSQL or MS SQL Server skills, plus experience with MongoDB, Redis, and Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, or Azure, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, tracing, and centralized logging.
• Experience writing automated unit and integration tests, using version control, and conducting code reviews.

Nice to have

• Game backend experience with game sessions, matchmaking, server authority, and stateful game-server orchestration.
• Experience operating real-time multiplayer systems under load.
• Experience integrating Epic Online Services, PlayFab, or gaming platform stores.

Culture & Benefits

• Part-time or full-time remote work.
• Small, friendly, agile teams with minimal bureaucracy and micromanagement.
• Streamlined approval processes.
• Group English lessons for three to four participants.