Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

About FRVR

FRVR is a growth stage games platform and publishing company building an expansive, cross-channel ecosystem that connects billions through amazing games instantly. FRVR’s proprietary technology and global reach represent a sea change for players and game developers. By democratising game distribution & discovery, eliminating downloads, and providing game makers of any size with robust development and live game operating tools, FRVR reduces cost and eliminates friction for creators while connecting them with billions of players worldwide.

Founded & led by seasoned entrepreneurs and game-makers and backed by leading investors, FRVR has seen explosive growth. FRVR games have almost 2 billion lifetime players. Through partnerships with companies including Facebook, Samsung, Snap, and TikTok, the company currently supports a growing player base of 2 million daily active players across an ever-expanding portfolio of games.

FRVR seeks passionate game-makers, technologists, data ninjas, product, and business leaders at all levels to join an incredible team and empower creators to serve their players better anywhere, on any device.

Intro

Join the Core-Tech team at FRVR and become an integral part of our mission to revolutionize game development technology. In this role, you'll spearhead the design, development, and maintenance of critical infrastructure, APIs, and tools that power our games and support our partners. With a focus on scalability, durability, and cost efficiency, you'll collaborate with teams across FRVR to deliver high-performance solutions that shape the future of gaming.

Challenges & Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure, APIs, and tooling for games, partners, and internal teams.
• Design, develop, and maintain services handling tens of thousands of requests per second.
• Emphasize scalability, durability, and cost efficiency in service development.
• Collaborate with all FRVR partners and departments
• Develop mission-critical tools and services supporting various domains and industries
• Enable global distribution of work to millions of players.

We are looking for someone with:

• Go and Typescript
  
• RPC frameworks such as gRPC, TRPC, and Thrift
  
• NoSQL and SQL databases, as well as in-memory databases like Redis
  
• Async messaging architecture with message queues and pub subs such as Kafka, RabbitMQ and NATS Jetstream
  
• Elasticsearch or alternative search engines such as Meilisearch or Mongo Atlas search
  
• Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud, Helm
  
• Distributed systems, microservice and serverless architecture
  
• Websockets, WebTransport & Server Sent Events
  
• Javascript build tools such as Vite
  
• Principles of authorization, authentication and access management
  
• Familiarity with functional programming
  
• Benchmarking, profiling and performance tuning
  
• Web security and API security best practices
  
• Telemetry and monitoring with Prometheus / Grafana
  
• Workflow automation with GitHub Actions
  
• CI/CD & GitOps pipelines such as ArgoCD, FluxCD, Jenkins
  
• Terraform and infrastructure as code

If you also have these experiences, it will be a bonus:

• Front-end development with HTML, CSS and JS
  • UI frameworks such as Vue and Svelte, as well as modern CSS tooling such as Tailwind and PostCSS
• Domain knowledge of both single-player and multiplayer games
  
• Game-specific service knowledge
  
• Rust and WebAssembly
  
• Python, data modelling and transformations through DBT
  
• AI / ML, Vector databases and vector search
• Open Match & Agones
  
• Game server paradigms such as authoritative vs relay
• Rust and WebAssembly
• Python, data modelling and transformations through DBT
• AI / ML, Vector databases and vector search

What else you should know (Perks):

• Permanent work contract 📝
• 30 vacation days ☀️ 🏝
• Workplace Allowance of 250€ (1-time payment) 📎
• Personal Training Budget of 600€ per year 🎓
• Remote working setup 👩💻
• You will be a part of a fun & playful working culture 🏀
• After 3 years with FRVR, you can take your own Mini-Sabbatical: 1 extra month vacation + 2500€ budget 🧳✈️