Big Viking Games is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Technology team! Reporting to our Director of Engineering you'll be working on our flagship games - YoWorld and FishWorld! The ideal candidate will be a seasoned cloud engineer with extensive AWS experience. This role will be expected to split their time doing both maintaining the current game code and executing modernization projects.
The Duties:
- Design, develop, and deploy scalable, highly concurrent cloud-based backend solutions.
- Develop and maintain cloud based solutions in accordance with best practices
- Ensure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security
- Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
- Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations for improvements
- Develop, implement and maintain our cloud infrastructure in AWS
- Participate in code reviews
- Ensure high availability and reliability of game services in a live operations (LiveOps) environment.
The Must Haves:
- 2+ years of experience managing and operating Kubernetes clusters in a production environment.
- 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform in AWS.
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining highly concurrent backend systems.
- 5+ years of experience using MySQL / MariaDB
- 5+ years of Development experience using one or more of the following languages: PHP/Java/Node JS/C #
- 3+ years of experience working in a distributed system environment
- Experience with RabbitMQ in production environment
- Competitive salary, bonus program, Group Retirement Savings Plan matching & participation in the Employee Stock Option Plan
- Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, and vision), including generous time off policies
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What We Do
Since our humble beginnings in 2011, these two words have driven Big Viking Games to become the successful company it is today. We are focused on making our mark by building awesome free-to-play mobile and social games. We’re one of the largest independent mobile and social game studios in Canada and a pioneer in mobile HTML5 games!
The company has grown profitably to a team of over 70+ Vikings across two studios in Toronto and London, ON. Prior to 2020, we had 2 studios, but we’ve now converted to a 100% remote company!
From our beginnings with hits like FishWorld and YoWorld, we strive to become a leader in live operations. Our titles are played by millions of people on iOS, Android, Facebook, and the web.
