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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Backend Engineer - **Company:** ELEVENTH HOUR - **Location:** Dallas, TX, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Code Review, Continuous Integration, Data Security, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Online Service Provider, Performance Tuning, Data Storage Technologies, System Availability, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Api Design - **Published:** August 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0cbe05f3983dbda8 ## About the Role * 5+ years building and supporting online services with SLA requirements * Strong backend engineering experience writing high performance C# * Production experience on Azure, with specific focus on AKS and CosmosDB * Demonstrated experience building distributed systems and event-driven architectures. * Deep understanding of data consistency, idempotency, retries, and failure modes. * Strong hands-on skills in API design, performance tuning, and operational excellence. * Experience designing systems that support real-time or near-real-time gameplay loops (sessions, lobbies, inventory updates, or matchmaking/server instance lifecycles). * Background in systems design, with ability to build maintainable, scalable solutions * Experience with mentoring engineers, code reviews, and setting technical standards * Excellent cross-discipline collaboration and communication skills PREFERENCES: * 2+ years experience working in a game studio * Experience configuring console storefronts (PlayStation, Xbox, Switch) * Experience with PlayFab, Nitrado/GameFabric * Unity and Unreal experience * Experience optimizing performance across platforms (PC and console) * Knowledge of ARPGs, action combat systems, or similar * Experience building for GAAS Reasonable Accommodation ## Description As a Senior Backend Engineer at Eleventh Hour Games, you will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of EHG. You will own core service architecture and scalability for gameplay-critical features like game server hosting, matchmaking, inventories/economy, and telemetry all while ensuring reliability under peak traffic and enabling rapid iteration by the broader engineering team. The ideal candidate thrives with complex problem-solving and brings strong communication skills to drive collaboration across a fully remote, global team. WHAT YOU'LL DO: * Own the architecture of core backend systems for Last Epoch: gameplay services, state/inventory services, player progression, and economy-related workflows. * Design and implement scalable APIs and event-driven pipelines. * Build for high availability and performance on Azure, including data storage, caching, queues, and background processing. * Establish engineering standards for C# backend development: patterns, performance practices, resilience, observability, and security. * Drive reliability practices: idempotency, consistency models, graceful degradation, incident response, and chaos-minded fault handling. * Partner with game design and product to translate gameplay requirements into robust technical solutions. * Improve code and feature velocity through reviews, architecture docs, and reusable frameworks/libraries. * Contribute to CI/CD and operational readiness: automated tests, deployments, monitoring/alerting, and run books., * Security & Compliance: Apply secure-by-default practices (authn/authz, proper secret handling, least privilege, and threat modeling for exposed endpoints). * System Design & Ownership: Define service boundaries, contracts, and data models; make key tradeoffs for cost/latency/consistency. * Scalability & Reliability: Implement durable messaging patterns, backpressure strategies, and fault-tolerant workflows. * Performance Engineering: Optimize hot paths in C# services and reduce latency through caching, batching, and efficient data access. * Observability: Ensure logs/metrics/traces support debugging and live operations; set SLOs/SLAs where appropriate. * On-Call: Diagnose and lead resolution of complex service, infrastructure, and live-ops issues; participation in an on-call rotation (Pager Duty) ## Related Videos - [API Design - Getting Started](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/33-api-design-getting-started) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Are Code Reviews Worth It? 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