Senior Server Programmer (World of Warships, PC)

The role

The Server Core team develops and maintains critical core services for game clusters, player data, and connectivity. You will own complex features end-to-end and ensure scalability, performance, and fault-tolerance.

What you will do

• Own complex features end-to-end, from requirements to production
• Decompose large problems into manageable tasks and define service/module boundaries
• Ensure scalability, performance, and fault-tolerance
• Improve engineering culture through tools, testing, observability, and automation
• Mentor mid-level engineers and support team decision-making
• Guides less experienced developers
• Makes sound technical decisions under ambiguity
• Ensures delivery of features that create real user value
• Raises the overall technical quality bar

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional development experience with C++ or other statically typed languages such as C#, Java, or Rust
• Experience building and maintaining complex, stateful backend systems
• Solid understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous execution
• Experience investigating and resolving performance issues
• Hands-on experience with databases, query optimization, caching, and messaging
• Skilled in monitoring, logging, and observability practices
• Experienced in building reliable, secure backend systems
• Advanced level of English language

Nice to have

• Prior Python experience is a plus

Benefits

• 21 days annual leave (up to 25 days based on years of service)
• 5 Personal Days
• Birthday Leave
• Marriage Leave
• Compassionate Leave
• Sick Leave (10 days top-up to statutory allowance per year)
• Maternity Leave (18 weeks top-up to statutory allowance per case)
• Career development and education opportunities
• English Language courses fully covered upon Manager's approval
• Private Health Care
• Mental well-being program (iFeel)
• Onsite gym and spa

Before you apply

• This role isn't eligible for relocation & immigration support
• Please submit your CV in English

About the company

Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. It operates 15 offices worldwide and develops flagship products like World of Tanks and World of Warships.