Lead Backend Engineer

🔥 18 hours ago

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $196k - $203k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Gardens is a remote game studio composed of industry veterans with experience on popular titles such as Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Guild Wars 2. The studio aims to create lush, living worlds that foster community and friendship through surprising multiplayer experiences. Gardens is working on a flagship game that combines fantasy adventure with communal online play, drawing inspiration from cherished online gaming memories. Committed to work-life balance and diversity, Gardens offers sustainable policies for competitive pay, benefits, flexible work, and opportunities for professional growth. Their team values transparency, collaboration, and diversity, actively hiring from underrepresented communities to build a supportive and inclusive work environment.

📋 Description

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers • Set goals, run 1:1s, give feedback, and support career development • Create hiring plans and interview technical candidates • Own team processes including planning, code review standards, on-call/bug triage, and work scoping and estimation • Create a healthy, high-trust engineering culture • Review pull requests and unblock engineers on difficult technical problems • Own the evolution of backend architecture and write production code on critical-path systems • Own reliability, service level objectives, incident response, and infrastructure cost • Partner with game design, marketing, and production to scope features and align engineering with creative vision • Partner with the Technical Director to create a realistic technical roadmap • Communicate engineering status, risks, and trade-offs to studio leadership • Report to the Technical Director • Lead the Backend Engineering team • Partner with Gameplay, Technical Direction, Production, Design, Marketing, QA, and the broader engineering organization

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional backend experience, with games/live-service development strongly preferred • 2+ years of experience directly managing or leading engineers • Strong Kotlin or Java skills • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Grafana, Terraform, and load-testing tools • Hands-on experience scaling backend systems to a global audience • Experience with debugging, monitoring, and alerting backend systems • Solid grasp of software architecture and design patterns • Experience working cross-functionally with design, marketing, and production on a shipped or in-development game • Comfortable operating with high ownership in a lean team • Strong communication skills • Experience taking a live-service game through launch and post-launch operations (nice to have) • Experience at an independent or mid-size studio (nice to have) • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada • Must be willing to work within North American time zones (EST–PST)

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock options • Medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% for individuals, 90% for dependents) • Life insurance • Short-term and long-term disability coverage • Additional benefits • 401(k) contributions (U.S.) • RRSP + DPSP contributions (Canada) • Paid parental leave • Fully distributed remote studio across North American time zones • Competitive salaries and pay transparency

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