Senior Back-End Engineer

Reposted 11 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in Dallas, TX
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Gaming • News + Entertainment • Sports • Esports
The Role
As a Senior Back-End Engineer, you'll develop online services, debug issues, optimize features, and participate in a weekly on-call rotation.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 a gaming studio role 
  • Demonstrable command of C# or similar language
  • Experience with cloud providers (Azure specifically a plus)
  • Experience working on a live service with a regular release cadence
  • Experience in back-end service development for online games

Pluses:

  • Familiarity with multiplayer online games and ARPGs in particular
  • 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 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 extraordinary games. Extraordinary games build passionate communities, which create passionate people. Passionate people turn into next year's creators. With our breakout title Last Epoch, we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!

  • Flexible fully remote working arrangements
  • US Employees 90% premium paid for employee, 100% premium paid for dependents health insurance
  • US Employees 30% paid premium on Dental and Vision plans
  • 35 Paid time off days, received at start of the year
  • 401K for U.S. based employees


EHG is an equal opportunity employer. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected]. Please note, general employment questions cannot be accepted or processed this way.

Top Skills

Azure
C#
Unity
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The Company
84 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

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

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