Lead Software Engineer

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer, Real-Time Gameplay Job ID: NC169000123 About the company: The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books, with more than 2.7 billion gamers playing monthly and 10 million developers worldwide. Mobile is the fastest-growing segment of the gaming market, expected to increase from $77 billion in 2020 to $150 billion in 2025. Our client is the leading mobile games platform connecting players in fair, fun, and meaningful competition. As the publicly-traded mobile esports platform, they have pioneered the future of the gaming industry. Their platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, they host billions of casual esports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide and distribute millions in prizes each month. Through their philanthropic initiatives, they have harnessed the power of their platform to transform the way nonprofits engage with donors, enabling anyone with a mobile device to support causes by playing in their tournaments. They have also earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, a two-time winner of CNBC's Disruptor 50, one of Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000. About The Job: As the Lead Software Engineer on the Synchronous Server Team , you will help build the technical solutions to unlock the ability to make real-time gameplay happen on the company's platform. Reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager for Synchronous Gameplay, you will contribute to the team's product portfolio by adding new features, ensuring high availability and reliability, and building performant systems. What you'll do: Master the entire application life-cycle including research, design, development, testing, along with continuous deployment and delivery. Develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solutions, and maintain its high level of quality software. Add exciting new features to our world-class platform enabling competitions, tournaments and social features for players, spectators and streamers around the world. Collaborate with teammates who care about building great products as much as you do. What you need to have: 6+ years of experience in the development of enterprise software. Ability to work in a dynamic agile development environment, as members of the team play a role in the entire life cycle of development. Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages such as Java, Golang, or C++. Experience with cloud-based datastore technologies such as RDS, Redis, Firestore, Cloud SQL, and/or ElasticSearch including design and optimization. Experience working with one or more: Docker, Kubernetes, public clouds (i.e. AWS, GCP), Microservices, distributed systems. Ability to troubleshoot, debug, and solve the complex problems that distributed, scalable systems introduce. Our client embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of their commitment to diversifying their workforce, they do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status. #J-18808-Ljbffr