[Hiring] Lead Backend Engineer @Pocket worlds
Apr 03, 2025 - Pocket worlds is hiring a remote Lead Backend Engineer. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: Northern America.
Role Description
We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer with extensive backend development and cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, Kubernetes, MongoDB). The ideal candidate should be comfortable in a high-energy and fast-moving environment, leading a small and elite team with lots of responsibilities and ownership.
The ideal candidate values a lot of control over their career and is genuinely excited to see a virtual universe be brought to life through their work. The success of this role will be measured by the impact you deliver to our team, product, and world.
Our Current Backend Technical Stack:
- Async typed Python, Go
- Kubernetes (kOps)
- AWS
- Terraform, Helm
- MongoDB, ElasticSearch and Redis
- OpenSearch, Grafana, Kibana and Prometheus
- REST, FlatBuffers, WebSocket Secure (WSS)
- Micro Services, event-based architecture
Our Planned Stack Upgrades:
- Expand our infrastructure to support global growth
- Enhance our cloud native tools and practices to improve our systems with regard to business continuity and security
- ML-driven recommendations and search engines
- Game server hosting for UGC (User Generated Content)
- AI-powered content generation
Qualifications
- At least 10 years of experience in backend development and infrastructure management, with at least 4 of those in a senior+ role
- Extensive experience managing infrastructure at scale, with proven success at delivering stability and performance
- Experience with direct ownership of service orchestration with direct involvement in the documentation, support, deployment, observability and CI/CD pipelining
- Experience leading small teams and being the stake holder with significant ownership and responsibilities
- Expert with owning and operating Kubernetes, preferably in AWS
- Experience with and comfortable working in a high-velocity startup environment
- Experience supporting mission-critical applications at scale
- Experience programming Python
- Passionate about work and values working with like-minded individuals
Requirements
- Experience programming in GO, C# or Lua (bonus)
- Experience with the Unity Gaming Engine (bonus)
- Experience orchestrating stateful applications such as game servers (bonus)
- Built side projects or games outside of work or made significant open-source contributions (bonus)
- Starter who loves to experiment and learn new things (bonus)
- Highly energetic and comfortable leading and pushing your team to succeed (bonus)
- Comfortable taking control of large systems with minimal documentation (bonus)
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation
- Meaningful equity - we’re here to do amazing work, and we share in our wins together
- Equipment allowance - choose what you need to work at your best
- Healthcare, 401k (US only)
- Unlimited PTO
- Education/Training stipend - we've set aside a budget for every employee to continue to learn and grow their skills
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Salary
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unspecified
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Remote
Location
Northern America
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Apr 03, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: Northern America |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
