Senior Backend Engineer - Creative Play

As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Platform Team at Embark you will be an enabler, creating crucial building blocks for current and future state of the art games.

You will build backend systems for one of Embark upcoming creative games; participating in the whole tech stack, from databases and service layers, down to the game engine integrations. Even though you’re a backend engineer you’ll be invited to participate in various parts of our game development process.

We’re not only building the underlying service frameworks that our vision relies on, we are also in close collaboration with other teams building the tools that make us move forward on a daily basis. We are all software developers with deep knowledge and a grand passion for Rust development.

A day at Embark will entail building services based on existing open source crates, as well as our own in-house framework and libraries. You will likely work in many of our open source crates and probably participate in other open source projects not built inside Embark. Our defined vision is to contribute to the Rust community while learning from it.

In this role, your responsibility would not not only be within backend & infrastructure development, but can include data, telemetry, and machine learning - all glued together in the heart of creative play.


Example of Responsibilities

- Invent next generation of game backend systems which will power the future of Embark's games

- Produce and review high quality code for future games

- Participate in planning/roadmap-making and technical/architectural decisions for our platform

- Participate in planning and leading development and infrastructure initiatives

- Take responsibility for mentoring and onboarding of new colleagues

- Interact between teams and domains to ensure we follow best practices.




We would love if you have

- A passion for enabling other game makers to create

- Solid development skills with a strong desire to get into Rust

- Extended Backend development experience, preferably from a DevOps context

- A solid experience of cloud infrastructure and build and deployment tools such as kubernetes and docker

- Interested in Machine Learning or have worked with backend tools powering ML-systems

- A will and ability to drive initiatives, efforts, or projects, maybe you have had responsibility as a ScrumMaster or Product Owner or similar in the past

- Professional English communication skills



At Embark we offer competitive salaries, a generous profit-sharing program, and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.

We welcome people from all backgrounds and are looking forward to reading more about you (in English)!

If this role doesn't quite match what you're looking for, feel free to apply to us via our " (https://www.embark-studios.com/jobs/278181-game-maker-open-application)"