Staff Fullstack Engineer Gaming Company Halo Meets Portal...

Our client is a “Halo meets Portal" viral video game in Beta that officially released in August by our client. They quickly became the #1 trending game on PlayStation, XBOX, and Steam before they had to limit how many users could play. In their first 6 days, they passed 1M downloads and hit 2M within the first two weeks. Our client is now at 14M+ downloads and growing. Our client currently has been able to support ~120K concurrent users, their goal is to scale to great heights beyond that.
They are currently looking for passionate Backend Engineers to join their founding team who are excited to build from the ground up. You will be able to own game-specific backend features (matchmaking, user challenges, etc.), data engineering, architectural and infrastructure work to help optimize and scale the system to great heights and create the best experience for players.
What We're Looking For

• A passionate engineer: You love to take on difficult, seemingly impossible technical problems and dig in to find creative ways to solve them
  
• A hard worker: You love to put in the extra effort, not because you are told, but because you enjoy your work and know the impact of finishing the tasks on hand
  
• A passionate gamer: You are a gamer who grew up playing games and can recognize what separates exceptional games from the average ones. You understand the mindset of gamers which enables you to create and implement features that will further benefit the game
  

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  
• 2+ years of software development experience
  
• Proficiency in React.js or similar frontend framework
  
• Familiarity with Node.js
  

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with AWS and other cloud platform providers
  
• Experience with MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases
  
• Experience with MySQL or similar SQL databases