Services Engineer (GameDev)

TL;DR

Services Engineer (GameDev): Architecting, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-availability backend systems for games with an accent on secure, performant, and resilient services for matchmaking, player data, live ops, and multiplayer experiences. Focus on building robust and reliable core backend services that scale gracefully while being easy to understand and operate.

Company

hirify.global is looking for a Services Engineer to power their games' online infrastructure.

What you will do

• Architect, develop, and maintain online infrastructure powering our games.
• Build secure, performant, and resilient services that support matchmaking, player data, live ops, and multiplayer experiences.
• Ensure seamless connectivity and stability for players worldwide.
• Write robust and reliable core backend services.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing backend services and operating them at scale.
• Expertise with one or more server-side development languages (ideally JVM: Java/Kotlin, or C#/Golang).
• Strong grasp of how to scale distributed online systems and how it affects the player experience.
• Experience with caching, load balancing, database schema design, concurrency design techniques, and microservice architecture.
• English: B2 required

Nice to have

• Mastery of web-based protocols (Protobuf, Websockets, HTTPS) and their implementation tradeoffs.
• Experience building fault-tolerant distributed systems that adhere to security best practices.
• Experience operating systems in Linux-based environments.
• Experience architecting Unreal Engine (UE5 or UE4) game code to effectively integrate with online services.
• Ability to contextualize backend code with the overall desired player experience.
• Experience building game services.