Backend Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Backend Engineer

• Focus: Building and scaling production backend services for a high-traffic gaming platform

• Working style: Daily use of agentic AI coding tools; flexible hours for game launches

Description

You will build and maintain backend systems for a high-traffic gaming companion platform, including REST and GraphQL APIs, database schemas and queries, caching, analytics pipelines, background jobs, and third-party integrations. The role requires production-scale engineering with attention to performance and reliability, and involves daily hands-on work with agentic AI coding tools under safety guardrails.

What you will do

• Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs (TypeScript) with authentication, rate limits, and typed contracts

• Design schemas and queries for PostgreSQL and MySQL, including live migrations

• Run ClickHouse analytics pipelines and write queries behind dashboards

• Own caching end to end using Redis-compatible stores, invalidation, and CDN purges

• Build and run scheduled jobs and queue consumers for syncing, indexing, leaderboards, webhooks, payouts, and data deletion

• Integrate third-party APIs (Stripe, Discord, Blizzard, IGDB, Steam, YouTube) with retries/backoff and rate limit handling

• Process game images into map tiles, sprite sheets, and responsive sizes

• Keep backend responses lean for Remix and Next.js pages to improve TTFB, PageSpeed, and SEO

• Direct and review agentic AI coding agents and maintain guardrails (tests, lint rules, build checks, agent instructions)

• Deploy using Docker, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes

• Support high-traffic game launches, sometimes outside regular hours

Benefits

• Professional growth: mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps

• Competitive compensation with USD-based budgets for education, fitness, and team activities

• Access to exciting projects with Fortune 500 and leading product brands using modern solutions

• Flextime with remote and office options