Senior Backend / Online Services Engineer

Location: Dnipro, Kyiv, Lviv, or remote within Ukraine. hirify.global does not hire from the Russian Federation or Belarus.

Company

hirify.global develops games and collaborates with international game development teams.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs supporting online game features.
• Collaborate with game and client engineers across the client-service boundary.
• Improve service reliability, performance, security, observability, and maintainability.
• Investigate production issues and contribute to testing, monitoring, documentation, architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical planning.
• Depending on the project, develop commerce and live-ops functionality such as storefronts, virtual currencies, entitlements, rewards, promotions, and dynamic content updates.

Requirements

• Proven experience independently delivering and supporting backend or online services in production.
• Practical experience designing and implementing APIs and working with persistent data.
• Understanding of scalable service architecture, data consistency, failure handling, and debugging across system boundaries.
• Ability to work with an existing codebase and own features through implementation, testing, and support.
• Written and spoken English sufficient for direct collaboration with an international team.
• Strong experience in at least one area: Unreal Engine and C++ online game systems, including backend integration and live-service features; or production Go backend services, distributed systems, relational databases, RESTful or RPC-based APIs, performance, observability, and reliability.

Nice to have

• Experience with Pragma or comparable game backend and live-ops platforms.
• Experience integrating commerce systems for PlayStation, Xbox, or Steam.
• Experience supporting live-service or multiplayer games.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, containerized deployments, Kubernetes, or Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience diagnosing production incidents and improving operational tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time work with project assignment based on expertise and project requirements.
• Collaboration with international game development, art, and technical teams within established pipelines.
• Remote work or a comfortable office location, with corporate English lessons and mentorship.
• 20 paid vacation days and 10 paid sick leave days.
• Regular salary reviews, a personal development plan, career path, and compensation of 50% of training course costs.
• Accountant support, referral bonuses, and a community focused on game development.

Hiring process

• Fast hiring process with a clear process.