Senior Backend Engineer

🔥 5 hours ago

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2020

Gaming • eSports • AR/VR

Rennsport. gg is a company dedicated to creating an ultra-realistic racing simulation game using Unreal Engine 5. Their mission is to enhance virtual racing experiences by incorporating cutting-edge technology and creating a platform that is accessible to both professional esports athletes and casual gamers. Rennsport. gg merges the world of automotive expertise and game development to provide a unique virtual racing environment. They also emphasize esports, providing a competitive platform where players can aspire to become professional athletes. Additionally, they focus on real digital ownership, allowing players to create custom, user-generated content within their racing simulation.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs • Own and improve backend architecture within the team • Ensure high standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability • Design systems with reliability, scalability, security, and observability in mind • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, SRE, data, and game teams • Contribute to technical planning and backend roadmap discussions • Identify and address performance bottlenecks, system risks, and technical debt • Participate in incident response and continuously improve system reliability • Mentor engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior Backend Engineer in a production environment • Strong experience building backend systems in Go (or another modern backend language such as Java, Kotlin, C#, or Rust) • Strong experience working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) • Strong understanding of system reliability, performance optimization, and debugging • Experience deg and operating distributed or microservice-based systems • Experience deg and consuming RESTful or RPC-based APIs • Experience running services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams • Experience with collaborative Git-based workflows • Clear and thoughtful communication skills in English (written and spoken)

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first, flexible work environment (must be located in Sweden or Germany)