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As our Backend Engineer, you will be working closely with the mobile games team to design and maintain a custom backend infrastructure. You will provide architecture and scalability guidance for our gameplay engineers to ensure we are leveraging our backend platforms properly.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, deploy and maintain highly scalable backends in a zero-downtime environment for thin client mobile games.
• Work closely with game designers and gameplay engineers to realize responsive multiplayer gameplay.
• Actively participate in code and architecture reviews.
• Coordinate with several departments on backend and analytics engineering needs.
• Contribute to best practices on reliability and availability.

Requirements:

• Enthusiasm for games in general.
• Rock solid experience working with Gamelift and associated AWS technologies (Lambda, SQS, EC2, etc.)
• Understand diverse languages and technologies - Python, Javascript, Node.JS, C++, C#, etc.
• Real-time multiplayer server experience.
• 4+ years of experience working with backend technologies for mobile.
• Strong understanding and commitment to best practices for mobile application security.

Desired Skills:

• Client-side mobile development experience in Unity3D, UE4, Cocos2d-x, Corona, etc.
• Microservice architecture experience.
• Knowledge of network protocols and non-blocking IO.
• Good experience with Linux shell and scripting languages.