Senior/Principal Online Programmer
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Job description
You'll work closely with global development teams to design, optimise, and maintain the backend systems that power large-scale online games. Your focus will be on ensuring stability, scalability, and low latency across key systems such as matchmaking, real-time battles, and data synchronisation. You'll also play a vital role in cross-team collaboration - working with partner studios to solve complex technical challenges and enhance backend performance across multiple titles.
What you'll be doing:
- Provide technical support for major international game projects by analysing backend server architecture, data storage, and network communication.
- Develop and maintain online services such as login, matchmaking, multiplayer systems, and data synchronisation.
- Ensure the reliability and scalability of backend systems to support global player access.
- Collaborate with development teams across time zones to optimise and implement technical solutions.
- Lead and contribute to technical discussions and documentation that drive best practices and innovation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend development experience, including 5+ years in the gaming industry.
- A degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Expertise in at least one major programming language, such as C++ or Golang.
- Strong experience building high-performance, high-concurrency, and highly available systems.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills across global teams.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices, and message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including performance tuning.
- Knowledge of game backend architecture, including matchmaking and real-time multiplayer systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Ansible.
Bonus skills:
- Experience developing with Unreal Engine.
- Proficiency in Mandarin Chinese (not required but beneficial).
- Understanding of service discovery tools such as Etcd or ZooKeeper.
If you're a passionate Backend Engineer eager to tackle complex, global-scale challenges and help shape the future of online gaming experiences, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. Apply now, or contact Ryan Templeman - rt@skillsearch.com
Years of experience and salary levels are shown purely as a guide. We will only consider applications from candidates that can demonstrate the skills or experience required for the role.
