Senior Software Engineer, Arcade (Backend)

The role

You will build and evolve backend systems for a mobile platform where players compete in skill-based games. This includes working on matchmaking, real-time multiplayer, rewards, integrity, and scalability.

What you will do

• Build consumer facing features to help core business metrics
• Work closely with data team to solve data driven problems
• Drive complex solutions into production
• Iterate on engineering processes like experimentation platforms and CI/CD
• Build and evolve async tournaments, blitz, streaks, leagues, and challenges
• Pair players by skill for fast and fair matches
• Own live matches end to end including game servers and low latency connections
• Build a personalization engine for rewards and offers
• Work with fraud and payments to detect collusion, score tampering and multi-accounting
• Build and improve backend scalability

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer
• Experience with storage systems (e.g., databases, object stores, or distributed file systems)
• Strong collaboration skills
• A strong personal slope and desire to grow one's career

Nice to have

• Go

Benefits

• $400/mo lunch credit
• healthcare
• vision
• dental
• 401k

About the company

Triumph Arcade is a mobile platform where players compete in skill-based games for cash and prizes. The company is a high growth, high energy team.