Senior/Principal Online Programmer New

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.

• 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.

Are you an experienced Backend Engineer looking to take on large-scale, global gaming challenges? This is an exciting opportunity to join a world-leading international games publisher that partners with top studios to deliver high-quality gaming experiences to millions of players worldwide.