Senior Software Engineer, Golang

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Video Game Design • Artistic Video Games • Video Game Innovation

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

Description

• Create and maintain high volume Golang services to maintain game and player state in a reliable, secure, and scalable manner • Work with designers to help bring new gameplay systems to life • Deploy microservices to our live environment • Monitor and diagnose problems in the live environment, fixing them in a timely manner • Help guide future backend technology, systems, and architecture design • Review another engineer’s Pull Request offering actionable feedback

Requirements

• Be a fan of TGC games and be excited about enhancing the player experience • Have 5+ years experience working on the backend for an MMO or high-volume, low-latency web services • Be fluent in Golang • Have deep experience with both relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) • Be comfortable deploying containerized services to a kubernetes cluster • Be familiar with both microservice and monolith architectures • Be an expert git user • Be familiar with creating unit tests, stress tests, and integration tests • Be proficient debugging in network environments

Benefits

• Paid Time Off, Holidays and Two Weeks Winter Break • Employees and their dependents get medical, dental, and vision coverage, regardless of their level, tenure, or position within the company. Moreover, these benefits start on the first day of the job—there’s no waiting period before they kick in. • Pet Insurance for those who need it too. • Compassionate leave for employees who needs to take care of their family members • Pre-tax wellness stipend • Pre-tax work from home stipend • Access our savings plan (401K program) with company match • Mental health resources including Headspace membership and Employee Assistance Program (CCA) • Discount portal for everyday goods and services • Employee inclusive and diversity initiatives such as Grow Together • Support for personal professional development