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Online Engineer

Amber
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2 years ago
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Here at Amber, we are self-empowered, entrepreneurial business partners. We love working collectively and helping each other achieve greatness through our games. We constantly learn and improve ourselves because we aim high: we want to be the best. If you share our vision, join us!

About the role

As a Back-end Engineer, you will be working in cross-functional teams to design and implement high-performance back-end solutions for our awesome games.

Responsibilities

● Collaborate with our DevOps team to define back-end strategy and architecture for our games

● Create and implement back-end deployment strategies

● Develop and maintain back-end solutions for high number of concurrent users and fast response times

● Actively participate in sprint planning meetings

● Ensure that all relevant parties are aligned on task specifications

● Constantly communicate with your teammates to flag and alleviate risks

● Help the team improve the game quality by eliminating waste from the development process

● Design, develop, deploy and monitor backend features and APIs for our games

● Create and maintain CI automated tests for the back-end solution

● Document system specifications

Requirements

● 3+ years of back-end architectural design and development experience

● Proficient with scalable server-side programming (concurrency / synchronization and distributed systems).

● Deep knowledge of database design and optimization.

● Strong knowledge of at least one cloud computing services like AWS, Azure or similar.

● Strong practical knowledge of current server technologies like REST, SOAP or similar.

● Strong knowledge of at least one mainstream server programming language like Python, C#, Java or NodeJS.

Nice to have

● Experience with development on mobile platforms and for a high number of concurrent users

● Practical experience with the lifecycle of a user query, from request to an API endpoint, up to updating cold storages reliably and consistently

● Experience in collaborating with client-side engineers and implementing full-stack features (backend to client, end-to-end)

● Experience using Automated Test framework

● Experience with container management tools like Docker or Kubernetes

● Experience with infrastructure automation tolls like Terraform

Personality

● Team player

● Eager to develop yourself

● Passionate about back-end optimization and server quality

● Eager to explore new technologies

Our offer

● An open environment where you can make a difference and you can own your decisions

● The opportunity to grow and succeed together

● Support from all your teammates

● The opportunity to work with the latest back-end technologies

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