Lead Backend Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

1047 Games, founded in 2017, is a VC-backed company that created Splitgate, a unique sci-fi first-person shooter with portal guns. They are currently working on a brand new shooter in the Splitgate universe. The company operates with a permanently remote, dedicated team of top-tier talent. They value grit, ingenuity, a desire to have fun, and a startup mentality.

What We're Looking For

• A passionate engineer who enjoys tackling challenging technical problems.
• Proven advanced ability to prepare, evaluate, and maintain tools supporting and process automation for software or hardware product release.
• Design, manage, and execute tools and scripts to develop different versions of products on wide-range operating systems.

What You Will Be Doing

• Work closely with other engineers across backend, infrastructure, and data to implement support for new and improved game features and systems.
• Build backend services, deploy them to Kubernetes, take them to production, and monitor the results.
• Scale services to support millions of concurrent players.
• Opportunity to work on any aspect of their technology stack, infrastructure, or backend services.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 4+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Experience solving distributed systems challenges; ability to assess a challenge, craft a scalable solution, and run with implementation.
• Expert in a common programming language, preferably C# or Go.
• Ability to serve as a component owner for software with a large user base, with focuses on maintainability and high reliability.
• Experience working in fast-paced environments with a high level of autonomy.
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platform providers.