Lead Backend Engineer
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JobgetherGame development
Based in the United States, North American time zones (EST–PST)Full-TimeLead
SalaryAnnual salary: $196,000–$203,000, depending on skills, experience, and level. Equity opportunities through stock options.
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 6 years of professional backend engineering experience; at least 2 years of direct experience managing, mentoring, or leading software engineers.
- Required Skills
- JavaKotlinKubernetesGrafanaTerraform
Requirements
- At least 6 years of professional backend engineering experience.
- At least 2 years of direct experience managing, mentoring, or leading software engineers.
- Strong programming skills in Kotlin or Java.
- Practical familiarity with Kubernetes, Grafana, Terraform, and load-testing tools.
- Experience designing, scaling, and operating backend systems for a global user base.
- Expertise in debugging, monitoring, alerting, and performance optimization.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, system design principles, and design patterns.
- Experience collaborating with design, marketing, and production teams on a shipped or in-development game.
- Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on development and own complex technical challenges.
- Experience in gaming or live-service environments is ideal.
- Nice to have: experience leading a live-service game through launch and post-launch operations, or working in an independent or mid-sized game studio.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop backend engineers through one-to-ones, performance feedback, goal setting, and career development.
- Establish and improve sprint planning, project estimation, code reviews, hiring, on-call rotations, and bug triage.
- Drive backend architecture and technical strategy while developing and maintaining critical production systems.
- Ensure backend infrastructure reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency through service-level objectives, monitoring, incident response, and operational practices.
- Support engineers with complex technical challenges, code reviews, and engineering standards.
- Collaborate with game design, production, marketing, QA, and gameplay teams to scope features and align technical execution with the creative vision.
- Partner with the Technical Director to define and deliver the technical roadmap.
- Communicate engineering progress, risks, priorities, and trade-offs to studio leadership.
- Foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on curiosity, adaptability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
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