Backend Engineer
Make your positive impact on the future of gaming
As the gaming industry undergoes rapid transformation, from the rise of free-to-play to the emergence of play-to-earn games and GameFi, Nyan Heroes stands at the vanguard of this revolution. With a focus on crafting a AAA multiplayer shooter set to launch its alpha in late 2024, we're committed to pushing the envelope.
By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, Nyan Heroes aims to involve and empower players equitably in all aspects of the game and its economy. Our mission is to set the gold standard for fair, sustainable game development in the GameFi space, leading the industry's advancement technologically, ethically, and inspirationally.
What you’ll be doing
As an Online Engineer will be expected to fulfill the following activities:
- Architect and deploy the online infrastructure to Azure Cloud
- Implementation of web services endpoints
- Configuration and administration of scalable databases (sql/nosql) in the cloud
- Game implementation of online features
- Matchmaking services
- Configuration and deployment of dedicated server VMs
About you
- Experience: 5+ years in engineering
- Skills: Proficient in C++, C#, Nodejs, Powershell
- Professional experience in matchmaking or are an expert in MMR/ranking systems
- Prior Experience shipping an online AAA or High fidelity Mobile game
- Good understanding of online topology and cloud infrastructure
- Proficient with SQL, Mongo DB
- Deep understanding Azure Cloud resources (firewall, load balancers, vms, containers, etc.)
- Ability to work remotely and independently, with flexible hours
- Strong communication skills
- Optional: you love cats and enjoy our humor
- Optional: Proficient in UE4/UE5
- Optional: Experience with git-flow
- Optional: Experience with common high level languages (Angular, TypeScript, python, etc.)
- Optional: Interest or experience in crypto and blockchain technology
FAQs
Location: From anywhere in the world. We are globally remote.
Equity/tokens available: Yes
Start date: ASAP
The Studio
We are a well-funded gaming studio seeking talented, motivated team members to help build an industry-defining title on PC from the ground up. We are gamers ourselves and believe in allowing talented people to express their own creative freedom. We are looking for many experienced industry heroes to help build and craft an AAA-rated game with a unique innovative twist on the standard formula.
We currently have more than 30 talented Nyan members across the world with two-thirds of our team coming from AAA-rated gaming studios and titles.
In addition to reshaping the future of gaming, we are committed to creating the top gaming studio culture founded on kindness and our love of cats! Nyan Heroes has already donated $250,000 from its first NFT sale towards our mission of saving 1 billion cats.