Backend Engineer - Pudgy World

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement robust, scalable, and secure back-end game systems

• Focus on areas such as player accounts, FTUIs, leaderboards, achievements, quests, in-game economies, and anti-cheat.

• Champion best practices for live operations, ensuring smooth launches, ongoing content updates, and seamless player experiences

• Integrate with external partner services and third-party technologies

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code

• Develop and execute automated tests to ensure high code quality

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals

• Identify and troubleshoot technical issues, implementing solutions to maintain system stability and performance

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer with at least one launched game

• Proven experience in designing, developing, and deploying back-end systems for online games

• Mastery of Javascript and at least one back-end programming language (Node JS, Java, Go, C#) and willingness to learn others

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Understanding of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis)

• Experience with building and maintaining RESTful APIs

• Familiarity with game development lifecycles and live ops best practices

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• A passion for video games and a strong desire to contribute to a successful game

Location: Remote but must be able to overlap with EST work hours.