Backend Engineer

The role

Backend engineers will build infrastructure and APIs for first-party products and third-party development. You will work with the lead architect on data models and API contracts.

What you will do

• Build social graph and identity including users, profiles, friends, follows, guilds, roles, permissions and moderation
• Implement financial and cosmetic economy including currencies, balances, drops, crafting, cosmetics and entitlements
• Ensure transactions are idempotent, auditable and reversible
• Build social product capabilities like chat, timelines, feeds and notifications
• Implement contract-first, versioned APIs
• Participate in design reviews, testing and code review
• Mentor others on the team

Required qualifications

• A portfolio of serious backend work you can walk us through in depth
• Years of experience building and running production systems
• Experience building something where correctness around value mattered: payments, ledgers, marketplaces, virtual economies, entitlements
• Experience building social systems: graphs, permissions, feeds, chat, moderation
• Strong relational data modeling: schema design, indexing, query design, migrations on live data
• Ability to write clearly for specs and design docs

Nice to have

• In-game economies or live-ops: drop tables, sinks and faucets, exploit response
• Real-time systems (WebSockets, SSE)
• Web3 identity and assets: wallet signatures, on-chain indexing
• Founding-engineer or 0→1 experience
• Systems programming (C/C++/Rust/Zig)

Benefits

• Seed stage equity
• Learning/health/culture stipends
• PTO
• Health insurance

Before you apply

• Include a portfolio of work, ideally including a system you designed and would do differently today

About the company

remilia is an independent and well-capitalized company with an engaged alpha user community and high-autonomy teams.