Lead Backend Engineer — Gaming Services — Remote (Worldwide)

Location and working arrangements

Applicant eligibility: Worldwide

• Vacancy-wide (no geographic assertion): Remote

Overview

The role supports an online-gaming technology operation. The lead engineer takes ownership of scalable systems and APIs supporting always-on customer experiences. Architecture, implementation planning and high-quality code are connected responsibilities, alongside review of design patterns, testing and performance. The role works with product and design to align technical solutions with business priorities and contributes to the team’s roadmap. Production problems require active diagnosis and durable improvements, while mentoring helps engineers develop their own judgement. The position calls for experience building distributed cloud services and the ability to make technical standards practical throughout the development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Relevant degree or equivalent education, training and experience.
• At least five years of object-oriented backend development.
• Strong C# or comparable language and architecture expertise.
• Cloud distributed-systems and automated-testing experience.
• Event streaming, microservices and non-relational database knowledge.
• Container, observability and technical mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure distributed systems and APIs.
• Break down workstreams and guide feature delivery.
• Set coding, testing and performance standards.
• Resolve production issues and improve reliability.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical roadmaps.

Conditions

• Full-time fully remote employment.

Tech stack

• C#
• AWS
• GCP
• MongoDB
• Docker
• Kubernetes