Backend Technical Expert, Gaming
Description
This role is for a Backend Technical Expert within the Gaming division, focusing on global game projects. The position involves providing technical support, developing and maintaining online services, and collaborating with international game studio teams to optimise technical solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive backend development experience, particularly within the gaming industry, and a strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud platforms.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support for major overseas game projects.
- Analyze backend server architecture, data storage, and network communication based on game business characteristics.
- Offer customized technical solutions to optimize overall backend performance and stability.
- Participate in building Online Services for games (such as login, matchmaking, real-time battles, data synchronization).
- Ensure high availability and low latency to support stable global player access.
- Collaborate with top-tier global game studio teams to drive technical solution optimization and implementation.
- Organize and participate in technical discussions to promote communication and collaboration with game studios.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend development experience, including 5+ years in the gaming industry.
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate across time zones.
- Passion for technology, quick learning ability, and a knack for solving complex problems.
- Proficient in English, Proficient in Mandarin Chinese is a plus (but not required).
- Proficient in at least one programming language (expertise in C++ or Golang is preferred), with strong experience in threads, coroutines, and building high-performance, high-concurrency, and highly available systems.
- Familiar with distributed systems and core backend technologies such as microservices architecture, message queues (such as Kafka/RabbitMQ), and service discovery (such as Etcd/ZooKeeper).
- Experienced with both SQL (such as MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (such as Redis/MongoDB) databases, including performance optimization.
- Familiar with game backend architecture (e.g., matchmaking, real-time battles, network synchronization).
- Candidates with Unreal Engine development experience are preferred.
- Practical experience with cloud platforms (such as AWS/GCP/Azure), understanding their mainstream services and architectures, and capable of designing backend systems based on actual application scenarios.
- Experience with common CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, etc.
