Aardvark Swift is supporting Ape² in their search for a skilled Backend Developer to support the implementation of core multiplayer and open world services for their Above.Land gaming project.

Your responsibilities will include...

• Design and build the very backbone of their Open World System to handle multiple zone instance streaming and thousands of player sessions simultaneously
• Ensure multiplayer tools and the features they support are robust and functional at all times
• Design and build back-end systems that will allow automation to identify player issues to deflect traffic or provide automated resolutions
• Create frameworks, APIs and tools for use by a large-scale, online multiplayer game
• Work with client-side developers to create efficient communication structures and ensure synchronization between client/server
• Responsible for performance and general quality of server code, systems and connected features
• Create web-based dashboards and other tools to support game operations, analytics, deployment, and testing
• Connect with other departments within the Dev & Engineering team and Ape² globally to improve existing tools and determine new solutions
• Support gameplay programmers to plug in game features to the backend wherever it applies

The skills and experience you'll bring to the role...

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• 5-7 years of working in developing scalable backends for applications preferably for large scale games.
• Strong expertise of using Docker in local and production environments along with Kubernetes.
• Strong proficiency with ASP.net and willingness to modify code at will.
• Strong proficiency with open source technologies, Linux and AWS.
• Must have coded and maintained one public API with 1-2 Million DAU.
• Must have used Message Queues in production such as RabbitMQ / Kafka.
• Proficiency with communication APIs (HTTP short and long polling, HTTP streaming, REST, WebSockets).
• Experience with one or more languages, such as Node.js / Express/ Golang.
• Efficient use of Caching systems like Redis / Memcache.

Bonus points if you have...

• 3-5 years of recent game development experience and a solid understanding of game creative and production processes / pipelines
• Successfully implemented server-side logic for one or more multiplayer games or other applications with similar interaction.
• Understanding of blockchain programming (Solidity)
• Experience with Kibana / Grafana setup
• Experience with JS frontend framework like Vuejs or ReactJS
• Expertise with Unreal Engine and advanced skills in C++
• Strong Github profile with open source contributions