Lead Backend Engineer
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Gardens InteractiveVideo games
United States - Remote; Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada., EST–PST; North American time zonesFull-TimeLead
Salary$196K - $203K; $196K – $203K • Offers Equity; Blue Leader Level 4: $196K – $203K • Offers Equity
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years of professional backend experience; 2+ years of experience directly managing or leading engineers.
- Required Skills
- JavaKotlinKubernetesGrafanaTerraform
Requirements
- Bring 6+ years of professional backend experience; games or live-service development is strongly preferred.
- Have 2+ years of direct experience managing or leading engineers.
- Demonstrate strong Kotlin or Java skills.
- Be familiar with Kubernetes, Grafana, Terraform, and load-testing tools.
- Have hands-on experience scaling backend systems to a global audience, including debugging, monitoring, and alerting challenges.
- Understand software architecture and design patterns, and know when to apply them versus keep things simple.
- Have experience working cross-functionally with design, marketing, and production on a shipped or in-development game.
- Be comfortable taking high ownership in a lean team and handling multiple responsibilities.
- Be able to explain technical trade-offs to non-engineers and rally a small team around a plan.
- Willingness to work within North American time zones (EST–PST).
Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers by setting goals, running 1:1s, giving feedback, and supporting career development.
- Create hiring plans and interview technical candidates based on product needs.
- Own team planning, code review standards, on-call and bug triage, and work scoping and estimation.
- Review pull requests and unblock engineers on difficult technical problems.
- Evolve backend architecture and write production code on critical-path systems.
- Own reliability, service level objectives, incident response, and infrastructure cost.
- Partner with game design, marketing, and production to scope features and align engineering with the creative vision.
- Partner with the Technical Director on a realistic technical roadmap.
- Communicate engineering status, risks, and trade-offs to studio leadership.
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