Backend Engineer

As our client’s Backend Engineer, you will define the project’s technical framework. You will own designing, building, and maintaining fluid communication between the project’s backend channels. You will hold the company’s big picture goals in your mind and create a scalable plan for the project’s architecture that serves the company’s long-term success. Your proactive thinking and technology expertise will help our client ensure that their innovation exceeds all expectations. What you’ll be doing:

• Build server architecture; author relationship between client, server and database
• Integrate gameplay into server architecture
• Work with big data: tracking, conditioning, translation, real-time processing and storage
• Optimize systems’ performance
• Hold the vision for scaling the product in future
• Developing and/or integrating security solutions

• 3+ years professional experience in this field
• Experience working in gaming industry a plus
• Experience designing security protocols
• Experience with AWS, Python, C#, TCP/IP protocols, REST Services, Unity
• Strong communication/presentation skills for interdisciplinary collaboration

Our client is looking for exceptional people who share their mission: to reinvent how our client measure human potential. Our client build technology-enabled assessments that evaluate how people think instead of what they know. They believe their society must prioritize developing minds that do what computers cannot. By changing assessments, they reorient the education system and employers to measure what matters. Our client loves this challenge. They know that what has worked for decades in other contexts, might not work in theirs. So they don’t default on expertise, instead they test every assumption with logic, each idea with reasoning, and all conclusions with “prove it.” Our client choose learning over ego so that their product and their people become the best. You’ll probably enjoy working with our client if

• You’re a systems thinker; you’d rather debate the concept than argue the example; you prize logic and reason
• You’re restless when not learning something new or stretching yourself
• You understand that at a fast-growing startup, priorities may shift rapidly. You value exposure across functions and are prepared to work on whichever team or goal is most impactful.
• You’re willing to open-mindedly challenge your own and others’ ideas, but also commit to the ultimate direction when the time comes
• You feel accountable and hold others to a high standard