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Back-End Systems Engineer
2 years ago
As a Back-End Systems Engineer at Ascendant, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and integration of systems to support multiplayer features for our upcoming title, including metagame services, commerce systems, live-ops tools, and analytics systems.
This position can be remote or in-person. Our new office, set in an old bank (yes, we kept the vault, aka our game room), has just opened after a 2 year renovation, steps away from shops, restaurants, and San Rafael’s vibrant downtown.
Founded by industry veterans, Ascendant Studios is a fully independent AAA game studio committed to making richly detailed, visceral, narrative-driven action games of the highest quality that players will never forget. We are currently working on our first title, an imaginative and original new IP, which we have complete ownership and creative control of.
What you'll do:
- Work with Gameplay Engineering, Design, and Product Management to develop specifications for back-end systems to support multiplayer gameplay.
- Integrate back-end systems with the Unreal Engine 5.0 game client and game server
- Design and develop toolchains that project stakeholders will use to manage gameplay systems in a live-ops environment.
- Review other team members' designs and code to identify systems that will require integration with live-ops toolchains.
- Interface with our external operations service provider to identify integration points and opportunities to leverage their existing systems
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to define and implement operational escalation procedures
- Develop runbooks and provide training for live-ops procedures
Who you are:
- 5+ years of experience developing and integrating back-end multiplayer game systems
- 3+ years of experience working in one or more commercial game engines, such as Unreal Engine or Unity
- Experience working with applications hosted within AWS is highly desirable
- Experience developing browser-based tools to fulfil operational needs is highly desirable
- Experience working with Jenkins or other CI toolchains is highly desirable
- Experience with and ability to learn new technologies and work in a variety of programming languages and environments
- Ability to quickly understand other people’s code and systems and how to best interface with those systems to meet operational requirements
- Ability to quickly diagnose and resolve technical issues in a production environment
- Natural intuition for designing operational interfaces that our internal customers will love to use
- Strong foundation of software engineering skills
- Passion for creating high quality code
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
More About Ascendant:
Located in beautiful San Rafael, California, in the heart of the San Francisco Bay area, Ascendant is founded by Bret Robbins, creative director and visionary behind the original Dead Space, as well as the campaigns for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, Advanced Warfare, and WWII. The studio’s leadership has assembled a team of industry veterans with more than 600 combined years of BAFTA and Game of the Year award-winning experience on beloved franchises such as Telltale's The Walking Dead, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Borderlands, The Wolf Among Us, Mafia, Tomb Raider, Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid, The Elder Scrolls, Call of Duty, Dead Space and Bioshock.
At Ascendant, everyone on our dispersed, 90+ person team is encouraged to contribute ideas to our new IP. We value creativity, inclusivity, equality, collaboration and professionalism, and we are fostering a fun, mature and ego-less studio culture built on a foundation of respect and an earnest top-down belief in a healthy work/life balance.
We believe that teams with varied backgrounds and life experiences make better games. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability status, gender expression or identity, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, race, religion, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
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