What you will do

• As a member of the Game Services team for Star Citizen, you will be responsible for building the online MMO backend services & related tools, acting on both the server and game-client side. The team is based in Montreal but operates mostly online with studios located in the US and the UK.

Your main objectives will be to:

• Design service APIs to power game features by working closely with Game Designers.
• Develop scalable online macroservices in a large meshed service ecosystem
• Program in tandem with Gameplay Developers to enable the game client
• Take ownership of game features in the MMO architecture from inception to deployment and operation.
• You will work in the following stacks:
• Communications with gRPC & Protobuf
• Gameplay services under Node. JS with Typescript
• High throughput services with C++ and gRPC
• C++ Game Client (StarEngine) communications with gRPC
• Distributed message queues (Kafka)
• Deployment with Kubernetes, Docker, and Linkerd2

You’re Savvy in

• Communicating efficiently with people and translating technical jargon
• Adapting to various contexts, sometimes shifting priorities
• Managing your schedule to ensure productivity and efficiency in projects
• Showing autonomy, being thorough and curious about new technologies
• Getting things done, sharing good practices in backend development, contributing to implementing efficient processes

You have Accomplished

• Relevant programming experience or Bachelor in Computer Science
• 4 years+ of experience in backend programming
• 2 years+ of experience in programming with Nodejs and experience with TypeScript
• Good understanding of Linux shell, git and build pipelines
• Good understanding of real-time network communication through gRPC, WebSocket
• Knowledge of Event-Sourcing and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Experience with C/C++
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes;* an asset*
• Experience working in a video game studio,* an asset*

You’re Eager to Take On

• Build macroservices in a polyglot environment
• Be part of a fast-iterating development environment
• Estimate the effort to perform specific tasks, commit to delivery deadlines and help the team set and respect production timeline collectively
• Mentor other developers on technologies you have learned to master
• Designing innovative online services by focusing on fault-tolerance, scalability & security
• Understanding the game features in order to provide clean, well defined, and documented service APIs
• Using Cloud Native technologies to guarantee that Star Citizen is built on top of a sustainable ecosystem
• Providing tools and applications to enable LiveOps teams to manage the game.
• Interacting with infrastructure engineers to analyze, inform, review and improve the reliability and scalability of the game’s backend

Salary: 90.000 CAD

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Turbulent is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability.