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Backend Systems Lead

As a Backend Systems Lead, you will design and enhance systems to handle a large number of players in a fault tolerant way. You possess a strong technical background and have a high degree of appreciation for backend systems design. You want to know everything about our current systems and find how they might be improved with users and production in mind. You will have a passion to manage and grow people and assist them in making improvements to our codebase.

You will be working with a diverse set of professionals from very knowledgeable programmers to live producers and server reliability engineers.

In this role you can expect to:

• Design, architect, implement, document, test, and support backend systems for both web client and server-side logic.
• Collaborate with game designers and other engineers to develop live operations tools and game features
• Be responsible for ad-hoc projects and/or requirements as they arise
• Work toward improving and maintaining the scalability and reliability of our game services.
• Deal with technical debt and help refactor our legacy code base.
• Drive coding standards and quality.
• Integrate code from other teams
• Be on our support rotation internally and on pagerduty.
• Help improve our logging to enhance our alerting and debugging of production issues.
• Manage and grow other engineers.

In order to be successful for this role, we are looking for:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Expertise in software engineering with back-end/server-side technologies
• Strong database experience (any RDBMS or NoSQL)
• Experience working on a RESTful API system
• Experience in working in a mixed team environment of engineers and non-engineering professionals
• Proficiency working with source control systems
• Able to effectively communicate and translate between general ideas and technical practices
• Experience dealing with scalability and performance optimization.
• Experience in C#,Node.js
• Experience working with Google Cloud / AWS.Experience and desire to manage and grow your team members

It will be a plus if you also have:

• Experience in Unreal Engine 4, Unity3D, MongoDB, and Redis.
• Practical knowledge of the iOS and Android platforms.
• Experience in professional game production.
• An active Github profile.
• Strong web development experience

Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.

We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!

Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.

Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in North America, including Vancouver and Montreal in Canada, and Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.