Senior Engineer (Game Development)

TL;DR

Senior Engineer (Game Development): Building and optimizing game servers and new features for a casual game, with an accent on performance, scalability, and consistency for high-scale distributed systems. Focus on designing networked communications, writing high-quality tests, and integrating tools to enhance the player experience.

Location: Remote from the UK

Company

hirify.global is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences.

What you will do

• Implement new features in collaboration with feature owners, game design, and other development teams.
• Work with game client developers to implement networked communications between game client and server.
• Design and develop our game server, associated tools, and libraries with a focus on performance, scalability, and consistency.
• Write automated, high-quality tests and collaborate with QA teams to improve gameplay and curtail exploits.
• Integrate and evolve tools and SDKs that empower teams to deliver an engaging game ecosystem experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years in a professional game development team or other relevant area.
• Strong computer science and engineering fundamentals (data structures, concurrency, design patterns, algorithms).
• Mastery of Unity and C# (or another OO language) including asynchronous and multi-threaded programming.
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing (AWS, GCP) and low-latency, high-scale distributed systems.
• Knowledge of Unix-like operating systems and experience with Redis (or other database systems), ORMs, and migration scripts.
• Ability to write efficient low-latency, low-IO code and understand how to prevent intrusions, injections, and cheating.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with highly available back-end systems and servers for games.
• Web development experience on a modern framework such as React or Angular.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kibana, Chef, Ansible.
• Experience with automated testing and stateful/stateless game server architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• A supportive work environment that values respect and inclusivity.
• Commitment to providing equal employment opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds.
• Part of a global team of game lovers focused on developing and innovating the mobile games industry.
• Work for a multi-billion-dollar business recognized as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies.”