vision is to become the worlds first playable social media platform for gamers, enabling seamless discovery and interaction with gaming content.
About the Role
We are looking for a talented Senior Backend Developer to join our growing team and lead the architecture and scaling of our real-time, high-performance platform. You will be responsible for designing and implementing critical backend systems that support millions of users while ensuring ultra-low latency, high availability, and seamless performance.
This is a high-impact role where you'll work on cutting-edge backend solutions for cloud-scale gaming infrastructure.
What You'll Do
Architect and develop highly scalable, distributed backend services to support real-time gaming interactions.
Optimize performance and reduce latency in microservices-based architectures handling millions of concurrent users.
Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and efficient resource utilization in a cloud-based environment.
Design and implement high-throughput data pipelines for real-time event processing.
Develop and manage robust APIs, databases, and caching layers to efficiently handle gaming sessions.
Work in an agile, fast-paced environment, taking ownership of core backend services.
Mentor and guide team members, fostering engineering excellence and knowledge sharing.
7+ years of experience developing large-scale backend systems in Node.js with microservices.
Deep expertise in performance optimization, and real-time event-driven architectures.
Strong background in distributed systems, caching strategies, and concurrency handling.
Hands-on experience designing and optimizing NoSQL databases for high-scale workloads.
Expertise with message queues, event streaming, and real-time data processing (Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.).
Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, containerization, orchestration and Docker.
Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and security best practices for scalable backend systems.
Nice to have
Experience in managing infrastructure resources, implementing custom autoscaling, and interacting with the Kubernetes API/Control plane
Familiarity with TypeScript
