Senior Software Engineer, Game Server

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.

Our client is reshaping the future of video games. They are focused on online MMO games that are completely on-chain. They have created a World Engine, a server architecture that allows developers to build games completely on-chain for the most computationally intensive games.

Candidate Requirements

• Experience writing backend services in Go, Java, or Javascript.
• Deep understanding of multiplayer networking architecture and different client-server synchronization strategies.
• Experience in Unity and C#.
• Familiarity with public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK).
• Proficiency in utilizing APM and other observability toolings to diagnose backend services issues and optimize performance.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Action, Jenkins, etc).
• 4+ years of experience in software engineering.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building and shipping an MMO game.
• Experience writing high-performance multithreaded game servers from scratch.
• Experience with data-oriented programming.
• Experience building and maintaining distributed and fault-tolerant systems with production workload.
• Deep understanding of the Ethereum blockchain.

Compensation: $150,000 - $250,000 base + equity