System Architect (Backend Platform for “Century: Age of Ashes” game) (offline)

This will be a state-of-the-art, custom built, highly distributed, highly scalable, flexible set of services that will provide matchmaking, server management, storage, communication, monetization, liveops and many other online features to "Century" (and to our next games too).

www.century-age-of-ashes.com


Your missions:

- Work with key stakeholders to define and design solutions for a game with hundreds of thousands of Daily Active Users that each consume tens of online services per second.
- Select the right technologies, Architect and Develop from scratch a robust and coherent Backend Platform with Services such as Matchmaking, Accounts Management, In-App Management, Client Relationship Management, Data Storage, Leaderboards, Telemetry.
- Build your applications to satisfy high objectives of concurrency, scalability, availability, resilience and security.
- Perform load tests and benchmarks, analyse results and optimize all aspects of the application and infrastructure to achieve the smallest response times or the lowest resources usage possible.
- Continuously support, improve and expand our Backend after its delivery as the needs of the game(s) rapidly evolve and the platform will evolve together with them at a rapid pace.
- Have at heart the Quality of Service for our players.
- Offer technical Leadership to a team of talented software engineers and ensure a consistent architecture throughout the entire platform. Ensure code quality, clarity and maintenance, following closely the industry standards and keeping in mind scalability and performance.


Your profile:

- 5+ years of experience in server-side application development.
- Demonstrated experience with one or more of the following languages C#, Java, JavaScript (NodeJS), Python, GO and of their main frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience with one or several modern databases (Redis, Memcache, MongoDb, Cassandra, *SQL etc) and in optimizing their usage for speed and cost effectiveness.
- Good knowledge of modern “client-service/service-service” communication stacks (HTTP, REST, OAuth, WebSockets, data structures Serialization, RabbitMQ, Kafka etc).
- Good knowledge of DevOps technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible etc).
- Demonstrated experience designing distributed applications.
- Agile practitioner (sprints, revision control systems, Jira).
- Experience of working with main cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
- Experience with managing security risks, scalability.
- Desire and skills to offer technical stewardship to the team
Interest in online gaming.
- Self managed, driven to reach the team’s goals, assumes ownership of the product.
- Strong organizational and communication skills with good spoken and written English.


Appreciated:

- Experience in online video games.
- Experience in crossplay and cross platform development.


We offer:

- The ability to architect and develop from scratch a kick-ass platform that will power our greatest game “Century” and that will become the online foundation of Playwing’s future games.
- Be part of an elite team of talented and experienced engineers and grow together with them as the project expands.
- Motivating salary package, performance-based.
- Paid sick leave, vacation and day-off (40 days per year).
- Ability to work from home.
- Individual development plan.
- Internal education and trainings.
- Payment for external trainings.
- Free English classes and Speaking club from beginner to advanced lvl.
- Compensation for sports activities.
- Massage services.
- Modern office in the city center.
- Free morning schedule.
- Fruits, milk, cookies and sweets throughout the day.
- Living room with Xbox and TV.
- Shower room and bicycle parking.
- Own small gym.

About QS Games

Ми — українська студія розробників онлайн ігор — QS Games. Створення захоплюючого ігрового досвіду – наша головна мета! Наші ігри ферми та сітібілдери, вирізняються неймовірними сюжетами та оригінальними персонажами в казуальній стилістиці. Ми по-справжньому віддані своїй справі, тому про наші ігри знають більше 5000000+ людей!

Company website:
https://games.quartsoft.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/quartsoft/