Created by Monsters. Built for gamers.™Truly Likeable Monsters (TLM), is a world-class video game company focused on development for some of the biggest games in the industry. Our mission is to break down barriers in the video game industry and make game tech available to all game developers regardless of size.We are looking for good humans with incredible talent to make great games.Position Summary:Senior Online Game Backend Engineer
As a Senior Online Game Backend Engineer, you will work with technology and studio leadership developing services and corresponding infrastructure for an online game backend.
100% Remote position & other cool benefits
Working with an international team on AA or AAA games in an Unreal Studio
Participate in hands-on software engineering work, and peer review.
Facilitate communication between clients, internal teams, management, and other individual contributors.
Responsibilities
Design, architect, and build Go / Golang and Python services and its associated infrastructure (eg. identity, matchmaking, networking, storage, metrics, logs, etc) for an online game backend.
Develop, maintain, deploy, and optimize game backend services working with online protocols (eg. REST, WebSockets, etc)
Support as a primary interface between Clients andTLM Partners
Participate with other departments providing development, documentation, influence strategy and overall direction for an online environment through your contributions
Collaborate in peer education and self study
Learning is one of our core values, as such, mentor others within your team and/or across departments
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and experience.
5+ years of online game backend development experience with Go / Golang and Python.
3+ years experience in the games industry.
1+ shipped AAA console or PC titles.
Experience with AAA game backend services (eg. EOS), platforms (eg. AWS Gamelift), and frameworks.
Experience with cross-platform and crossplay online multiplayer.
Design and develop services and infrastructure components on AWS.
Experience scaling, load testing, troubleshooting, and debugging online services.
Great with lateral thinking and motivation to work independently and on a team as well as the ability to work directly with teams across multiple territories and time zones.
Game Systems and Network Engineering knowledge.
Ability to create and maintain technical documentation from the beginning of a project through completion.
Dedication, teamwork and professionalism.
The ability to handle high pressure situations, with composure and diplomacy
Desired Qualifications
Great interpersonal skills.
Experience with UE4 or UE5 is highly desirable.
Knowledge of, or experience with game development systems is advantageous.
Familiarity with current and next generation console and PC (Steam / Epic) online APIs and SDKs.