Senior Software Engineer (Gaming Experience Required) [78193]

Our client, a AAA Gaming Studio, is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer!

You’ll join the Platform Team to create compelling gameplay experiences. This is a 6 month contract to potential hire opportunity. The role is located in Austin, TX, and is remote for the contract portion but will be permanently on-site upon conversion.

You must have professional experience working in the gaming industry to be considered for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain large-scale distributed systems
• Implement features in SDKs that are used in all the games that are integrated with our platform
• Create sample applications that run on desktop, consoles, and mobile devices to provide examples of how to use key platform features
• Create unit and integration test code to validate service reliability
• Write API documentation for consumption by game developers and other integrators
• Participate in on-call rotation to rapidly resolve live incidents related to our systems
• Coordinate with embedded and external teams
• Troubleshoot and debug issues with our live and in-development services

Requirements:

• 5 years of experience with software development in C++
• Experience building high-quality software
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong data-structure, logic, and algorithm skills
• Bonus:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science
• Production quality engineering experience with C++17 or later
• Proficiency in C#
• Experience developing distributed systems with a strong focus on server-side C++
• Experience with Cloud development and infrastructure
• Working knowledge of MySql, Cassandra, Redis, or related relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience supporting a live always-on service