Senior Backend Engineer

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May 6

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $180k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Founded in 2005, 2K develops and publishes interactive entertainment for video game consoles, personal computers and mobile devices, with product availability including physical retail and digital download. The Company is home to many talented development studios, including Visual Concepts, Firaxis Games, Hangar 13, Cat Daddy Games, 31st Union, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. 2K’s portfolio currently includes several AAA, sports and entertainment brands, including global powerhouse NBA®️ 2K; renowned BioShock®️, Borderlands®️, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization®️ and XCOM®️ brands; popular WWE®️ 2K and WWE®️ SuperCard franchises; as well as the critically and commercially acclaimed PGA TOUR®️ 2K. Additional information about 2K and its products may be found at 2K.com and on the Company’s official social media channels.

1001 - 5000 employees

📋 Description

• At Visual Concepts, we believe great games are made by diverse and empowered teams with a shared passion for play. • This is a role with a broad remit, where your expertise with distributed systems and compute scale will go hand in hand with your passion for efficient databases and deep love of crafting high-performance server-side applications. • As our server engineer, you will have meaningful impact on our games' ability to bring world-leading experiences to our players. • To learn more about Visual Concepts and our studio locations, check out our website at www.vcentertainment.com

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience writing server backend code • Proficient in C++ and understanding of object-oriented programming • Proficient in Python, PHP, Perl, or Ruby, with an emphasis on Python • Understanding of distributed and scalable systems • Experience with multithreaded programming • BSCS or equivalent experience. • Experience writing code for security and virtual currency transactions a plus • Experience optimizing database connections and queries a plus • Experience with online gaming architecture a plus • Knowledge of SQL databases (MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, or other) • Videogame console development experience is quite helpful • Love for video games (not just ours!)

🏖️ Benefits

• Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. • If hired, employee will be in an 'at-will position' and the company reserves the right to modify base salary at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.