Senior Backend Engineer (Steel Hunters)
Job Overview
Join the Steel Hunters team, the newly announced free-to-play mech shooter game, by Wargaming, one of the biggest publishers of free-to-play games in the world.
This strategic and tactical game in Unreal Engine 5, blends mech hero combat with Battle Royale and Extraction gameplay in a rich, futuristic setting, where players fight over a rare resource called Starfall. Each Hunter comes with its own abilities and progression paths, setting the stage for intense, memorable battles. For more information: https://www.youtube.com/@SteelHuntersOfficial
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build scalable and robust systems that enable and support our new free-to-play game in Unreal Engine.
Reports to
You will report to the Lead Backend Engineer.
What will you do?
- Design and build scalable and robust systems that enable and support our game
- Gather and analyze requirements together with other stakeholders
- Lead and mentor junior colleagues
- Help develop deployment infrastructure
- Work together with game developers, DevOps engineers, and producers
What are we looking for?
- Hands-on experience of designing and developing microservice architectures to produce scalable, maintainable backend systems
- Kotlin Proficiency, including familiarity with Spring Boot and/or its alternatives
- Good understanding of RDBMS, NoSQL databases
- Experience with real-time communication protocols (WebSockets, gRPC etc), and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ etc)
- Experience with test-driven development with a high level of quality
- Experience of developing game backend architectures (state management, real-time player interactions, high load); systems that support matchmaking, leaderboards, and in-game economies etc
- Independent, analytical and a high level of ownership
- Successfully delivered highly scalable systems into production
- Strong communication skills in English
What additional skills will help you stand out?
- Experience with Unreal Engine
Work mode
Hybrid, 3 days of work from the office
Benefits
Benefits and perks are tailored to the local market and culture. Our benefits in Guildford include:
- 5 weeks of Annual Leave per calendar year - increasing over time to a maximum 30 days per year, with the ability to buy up to an additional 5 days through our holiday buy scheme
- Additional paid time off (5 Personal Days, Birthday Leave, Marriage Leave, Compassionate Leave)
- Sick Leave Compensation and enhanced Maternity Leave Benefits
- Dog-friendly office
- Onsite canteen (with an endless supply of free snacks and drinks)
- Video games area
- Family coverage for Private Medical Insurance (pre-existing conditions are covered), Life Insurance, Pension scheme offering a matched 4% tax free employee contribution
- Mental well-being program (iFeel)
- Wellbeing perks (Mental Health Days, Dedicated Well-being room, Team of Mental Heath First Aiders)
- Career development and education opportunities within the company
- Employee discounts via Perkbox
- Personal Wargaming Gaming Account
- Company events (including events for partners/children)
- Seniority Awards
- Referral program - you can recommend the best talents to the Company and receive a reward
- DPS Games, a Wargaming company, is one of the main European hubs for game development with 25 years of experience on the market
- To learn more about our studio in Guildford, follow this link: https://dpsgames.com/studio