Senior Back-End Engineer

1 Week ago • 5 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Back-End Engineer at Eleventh Hour Games, you'll be responsible for developing and maintaining various aspects of Last Epoch's back-end services. This includes new features (in-game economy, leaderboards, matchmaking), debugging, and optimization of player data, chat, and other online services. You'll work autonomously within a fully remote team, utilizing your expertise to implement innovative solutions and promote best practices. The role involves diagnosing and resolving live service issues, deploying multiple back-end services, and participating in a weekly on-call rotation using PagerDuty. Experience with C#, cloud providers (Azure preferred), CI/CD, and back-end development for online games is crucial.
Must have:
  • 5+ years developing online services
  • C# or similar language proficiency
  • Cloud provider experience (Azure a plus)
  • CI/CD experience
  • Live service experience
  • Back-end game service knowledge
Good to have:
  • Multiplayer online game familiarity (ARPGs)
  • Shipped game title
  • Unity experience
Perks:
  • Flexible fully remote work
  • Team-focused environment
  • Casual game nights
  • 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 5 floating holidays
  • 90% paid health coverage (US employees)
  • Dental, vision (US employees)
  • 401k (US employees)

Job Details

What is your role? 

As a Back-end Engineer for Eleventh Hour Games, you'll be responsible for a wide range of tasks across many parts of Last Epoch's back-end services. This includes new feature development, debugging, and optimization for player data, chat and other key online services. You will be encouraged to use your experience and expertise to provide innovative solutions and drive best practices across the back-end team. The perfect candidate has excellent communication skills, and autonomy as you will be working with a fully remote team.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of developing/supporting online services, 2+ years within an industry role 
  • Demonstrable command of C# or similar language
  • Experience with cloud providers (Azure specifically a plus)
  • Experience with CI/CD, working on a live service with a regular release cadence
  • Knowledge of back-end service development for online games

Pluses

  • Familiarity with multiplayer online games and ARPGs in particular
  • At least 1 Shipped title 
  • Experience with Unity


Responsibilities 

  • Develop online game features such as in-game economy, leaderboards, and matchmaking
  • Diagnose and fix issues in live game services
  • Deploy multiple backend services
  • Expectation of weekly on-call rotation for emergency service notifications (Pager Duty)



Why Eleventh Hour Games?
EHG is a fast growing Indie Studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs. We value open communication, close-knit teamwork, and opportunity for ownership and growth! Our mission is to gather and empower the next generation of creators to forge epic games. Epic games build passionate communities, which create passionate people. Passionate people turn into next year's creators. With our debut title Last Epoch, we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!

  • Flexible fully remote working arrangements
  • Team focused environment, including casual game nights
  • 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 5 floating holidays at the start of each year (increased with company tenure)
  • 90% paid health coverage premiums for U.S. based employees +dependents
  • Dental, Vision for U.S. based employees + dependents
  • 401K for U.S. based employees

EHG is committed to full inclusion, and is an equal opportunity employer. As part of this commitment, EHG will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HR@eleventhhour.games. Please note, general employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here.

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Eleventh Hour Games is an all-remote indie game development studio currently working on the ARPG, Last Epoch

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