Senior Backend Engineer (C#)

Location: Remote; the role is part of a fully remote, global team.

Company

hirify.global is a game publisher working with Eleventh Hour Games, a studio developing the top-down action RPG Last Epoch.

What you will do

• Own the architecture of gameplay services, game server hosting, matchmaking, inventories, player progression, economy workflows, and telemetry.
• Design and implement scalable APIs, event-driven pipelines, durable messaging, and fault-tolerant workflows.
• Build highly available and performant services on Azure using data storage, caching, queues, and background processing.
• Set engineering standards for C# backend development, including resilience, observability, security, and performance practices.
• Improve delivery velocity through architecture documentation, code reviews, reusable frameworks, automated deployments, monitoring, and runbooks.
• Lead resolution of complex service and live-operations incidents as part of an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and supporting online services with SLA requirements.
• Strong experience writing high-performance C# backend services.
• Production experience with Azure, especially AKS and Cosmos DB.
• Experience designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Deep understanding of data consistency, idempotency, retries, failure modes, API design, performance tuning, and operational excellence.
• Experience with real-time or near-real-time gameplay systems, mentoring engineers, code reviews, and technical standards.

Nice to have

• 2+ years of experience working in a game studio.
• Experience with PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, PlayFab, Nitrado, or GameFabric.
• Unity or Unreal experience and performance optimization across PC and console platforms.
• Knowledge of action RPGs, action combat systems, or games-as-a-service.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with a global team.
• Open communication, close-knit collaboration, and opportunities for ownership and growth.
• Focus on secure engineering, reliability, observability, and operational readiness.
• Participation in an on-call rotation for live service operations.