Senior Game Backend Engineer (Node.js/TypeScript)

Location: New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada; hybrid with three days per week in the office. Meetings may require overlap with China morning hours while working in Pacific Time.

Salary: CAD 110,000–135,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is an independent game studio and publisher creating large-scale multiplayer games, including Squad and Starship Troopers: Extermination.

What you will do

• Audit and stabilize stateful microservice scaling logic, including graceful shutdown and dirty-cache synchronization.
• Complete partially implemented backend systems and connect backend logic to frontend RPC calls.
• Modernize database configuration and replace shell-script deployments with containerized CI/CD pipelines.
• Build automated integration tests for Midas IAP validation, custom data synchronization, and guild permissions.
• Coordinate architecture, code reviews, and live-ops incident response with Vancouver developers and Tencent infrastructure teams in China.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including at least 3 years with high-concurrency multiplayer game servers or live-service platforms.
• High proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript in microservices environments.
• Deep knowledge of stateful scaling, consistent hashing, memory management, and distributed caching.
• Strong experience with high-throughput NoSQL databases.
• Native-level Mandarin and professional English are required for communication with Tencent and the Vancouver team.
• Willingness to work from the office three days per week and accommodate China morning meetings while working in Pacific Time.

Nice to have

• Experience with Jenkins and deployment pipeline optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Tencent InGame PaaS and TcaplusDB.
• Experience integrating Tencent Midas, WeGame, and ACE SDKs.
• Proficient Mandarin communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time fixed-term 12-month employment with potential extension or transition to a permanent role.
• Extended health and dental benefits.
• Two weeks of paid vacation.
• Collaborative work with game development and infrastructure teams across Canada and China.