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Senior Backend Engineer, Team Lead
1 year ago
Senior Backend Engineer, Team Lead
KRAFTON America is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer, Team Lead for Americas Publishing Technology Team that builds products and services powering growth marketing and publishing activities.
Flexible, Remote and Work from Home options are available for this position until approximately May 2022. Afterwards we expect all employees to join us at our offices in Santa Monica, California or Saratoga Springs, NY where a hybrid work schedule will be observed.
Ideal Candidates:
You are a motivated individual who can personally take a project from the design and planning phase and see it through launch. You should have strong experience working with and deploying highly scalable microservices.
We’re looking for ambitious, solution-oriented professionals, who are decisive, have great attention to detail and not afraid to experiment. Like us, you take play seriously; you’re passionate about games and gaming. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to take on difficult tasks, and who question the status quo.
Scope of Responsibilities :
- Manage/lead a team of Backend Engineers which will build and maintain the tools, including our player account system, to reach and communicate with our players efficiently and effectively
- Building and shipping highly scalable web services used by millions of players worldwide
- Be able to take new products and features from the design phase to production
- Collaborating with production, designers, and quality assurance
- Interview, hire, coach, train and develop staff. This includes, but is not limited to, employee development, evaluations, and performance management
Reporting Relationship:
The Senior Backend Engineer, Team Lead will report to the Director of Publishing Technology.
Staff & Resources:
The team currently includes 4 full time employees of varying title levels across Backend engineers. Additional headcount may be required to achieve our aggressive objectives, and the Senior Backend Engineer, Team Lead will make the case for adding talent, as needed.
Qualifications
- 5+ years’ experience working with, profiling, and debugging micro-services and RPC calls (GRPC, Thrift, etc...)
- A working knowledge of Docker
- Experience deploying apps to AWS, and knowledge of how to take advantage of various AWS services (SQS, S3, Elasticache)
- Experience with automated testing
- Experience with NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, Cassandra, Redis, etc...
- Strong experience with multi-threaded statically typed languages (C# or GO experience preferred)
- Strong Linux experience, and familiarity with the command line
- Must have very strong communication skills, as we work with different teams all over the globe
- Experience in the game industry
- Proven ability to create, organize, prioritize, and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
Bonus Points
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with loadtesting frameworks
- Experience with modern Javascript frameworks. Typescript experience is also a plus!
- Love experimenting with new frameworks, and technologies
- Proven ability to get things done while managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Passionate gamer
Reasonable Accommodation
KRAFTON, Inc. is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, the Company will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to apply for an open position, perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact the HR Talent team at KRAFTON, Inc., to begin the interactive process.
EEOC statement
KRAFTON, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.
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