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C++ Game Backend Developer (m/f/d)

About DECA Games

DECA is a healthy and steadily growing company of more than 150 developers from around the world. DECA takes over beloved online games and reinvigorates them to last for another decade. The company is all about teamwork and empowering teams to provide a unique gaming service. We pride ourselves on our balanced culture. Check out more about us and our values on our website (www.decagames.com).

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for a passionate and talented Game Backend Developer to join our growing engineering team and play an integral role in designing, building, and scaling our architecture. You will be working on the game server of Realm of the Mad God which is a flagship project at DECA Games. The game has full feature development, a long-term roadmap, and a strong position in a genre that was defined by itself.

This role is a remote role, you can work from everywhere in the world.

About the game

Realm of the Mad God is the unique free-to-play Bullet Hell MMO. You can team up with dozens of players and battle through the Realm of the Mad God. With a retro 8-bit style, Realm is an evolution of traditional MMO gameplay. With more than 15 classes. permadeath and hundreds of items to discover, Realm is easy to play but difficult to master.

Check it out on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com...

Your Responsibilities

• Work with an interdisciplinary agile team of artists, designers, and programmers to implement new gameplay features
• Design and implement well-engineered, reliable, maintainable, and bug-free code
• Solve challenging technical issues
• Work closely with designers and QA to create optimal and bug-free solutions
• Identify technical and developmental risks/obstacles and generate solutions to overcome identified risks
• Share knowledge, help, and mentor colleagues in a cooperative, cross-disciplinary, and remote team environment

Your Profile

• At least 4 years of relevant experience
• Strong knowledge of C++
• Performance optimization skills
• Understanding of game programming techniques
• Strong sense of responsibility and independence
• Basic knowledge of Python
• Strong communication skills in English

Would be a plus

• A gamer at heart
• Experience implementing client/server communication
• HTTP servers programming
• Working with databases
• Linux experience
• Experience with Unity