Senior Software Engineer

About Backbone

At Backbone, we’re on a mission to redefine the way people play games. We create seamless, captivating experiences across mobile devices, tablets, TVs, and more. As we expand our product suite and introduce new hardware, we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is just as passionate about gaming.

Role Overview

Backbone is looking for a Senior backend engineer to join our small but impactful engineering team. As a Senior engineer, you will be responsible for building features, tools, and new experiences for the Backbone application while playing an influential role in defining cloud development practices across the organization. You will work closely with other members of the Backend, Client, Data Science, Product, and Design teams to turn ideas into reality. You will be critical to delivering on initiatives that provide the best experience to gamers of all types. We believe diverse perspectives and backgrounds make our products better and our team stronger.

In this hands-on role, you'll have a broad impact across disciplines. You'll lead and contribute to cross-team initiatives with minimal supervision, and help shape our technical direction. Enjoy your job from anywhere as the team is fully remote, or join people at our office in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, architect, and ship high-performance, scalable services to our application and other tools with a focus on feature development and API design.

• Lead cross-team initiatives and collaborate seamlessly across disciplines to deliver complex projects with minimal supervision.

• Define and influence cloud development practices at Backbone, including infrastructure-as-code and deployment strategies.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications

• Define and negotiate scalable API surfaces with client teams.

• Research new technologies and tooling to help improve our backend stack and incorporate them where appropriate.

• Mentor team members through code reviews and technical discussions while maintaining focus on hands-on development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development, with a strong emphasis on backend systems and API development.

• Strong experience with modern cloud application stacks.

• Hands-on experience with GraphQL schema design and resolvers, and/or REST API development.

• Experience with Pulumi or similar infrastructure-as-code tools for cloud resource management.

• Practical experience with one or more cloud platform providers and deployment patterns. (GCP, AWs, Azure, etc.)

• Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals.

• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures and their associated strengths and weaknesses.
  

Bonus Points

• Experience TypeScript and Node.js in production environments

• Experience with content discovery and classification

• Deep knowledge of gaming ecosystems – Understanding of player behaviors and gaming industry trends.

• Passion for gaming – You live and breathe games, understanding the nuances of what makes an immersive experience for gamers, worldwide.

Join The Backbone Team!

"Backbone feels as first-party as you could make something that is literally not first-party feel."

- TechCrunch

"The way that Backbone unifies gaming experiences... feels like the way of the future for mobile gaming in a way that none of the individual players… [have] managed to get right."

-TechCrunch