Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the Role

Join the backend engineering team at a consumer gaming company, building features and systems that support its core product. You will take ownership of significant projects and help the team scale its engineering practices.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship consumer-facing backend features that support key business outcomes.

• Develop data-driven systems for challenges such as matchmaking and fraud prevention.

• Improve engineering processes, including experimentation platforms and CI/CD, to help the team ship efficiently.

What We're Looking For

• Five to eight years of backend software engineering experience, ideally in a fast-growing startup or another high-bar engineering environment.

• Experience delivering consumer-facing backend features end-to-end with measurable impact and limited direction.

• Proficiency in Go, or the ability and willingness to ramp up quickly; familiarity with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform.

• Experience with data-driven systems such as matchmaking, fraud prevention, or recommendation engines is helpful.

• Background in real-time features, payments, or consumer gaming apps is helpful.

• Hands-on experience improving CI/CD pipelines or experimentation platforms is helpful.

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field is preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $400,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.