Staff Backend Engineer, Game Team
Fortis Games
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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About the role
- Develop game features from prototype through to live operations, ensuring quality and stability throughout the full lifecycle.
- Design, implement, and support scalable CI/CD pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes.
- Profile and analyze backend systems to identify and resolve complex bugs and performance issues.
- Perform backend load testing to ensure the game infrastructure can handle scale and peak player activity.
- Collaborate with client-side engineers to create secure, server-authoritative gameplay systems.
- Build and maintain DevOps workflows in a cloud-based environment, primarily using AWS services.
- Create clear, well-structured technical documentation to communicate design decisions and architecture to the broader team.
- Contribute to studio-wide engineering standards by following and shaping development guidelines and code quality practices.
Requirements
- Extensive software engineering experience in the games industry or with large-scale, real-time, low-latency systems, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality solutions.
- Hands-on experience developing backend services for real-time, multiplayer Unity games or streaming solutions using C# and .NET strongly preferred.
- Solid background in building multi-service backends using AWS cloud infrastructure and tools.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, iterative development environment, incorporating feedback to refine game features.
- Collaborative mindset with experience working on cross-discipline teams alongside designers, artists, and other engineers.
- Self-motivated and detail-oriented, thriving in dynamic, entrepreneurial settings where initiative is key.
- Firm grasp of game mechanics, systems design, and how technical choices impact player experience.
- Fluent in English with clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
Benefits
- We strongly believe we are changing how games studios operate and at the core of what we do is making great games that create a connected community
- We're not just about making Games Where You Belong. We're also about building communities where our people belong. That's why Fortis is a thriving environment that celebrates diversity, embraces inclusivity, and fosters growth.
- Build and grow with a seasoned team of accomplished talent who have left an impactful mark in their disciplines, both in and out of gaming.
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Hard Skills & Tools
C#.NETbackend servicesCI/CD pipelinesload testinggame mechanicssystems designtechnical documentationcode quality practicesreal-time systems
Soft Skills
collaborative mindsetself-motivateddetail-orientedeffective communicationinitiativefast-paced environmentiterative developmentcross-discipline teamworkproblem-solvingfeedback incorporation