Backend Engineer
Embark Studios AB · Stockholm · Tills vidare
Embark Studios is looking for a **Backend Engineer** to join its game services group. Working in a collaborative team setting, the position focuses on designing, building, and maintaining **distributed live-service online systems** handling player data at scale across multiple games. Day-to-day responsibilities involve developing core player-facing functionality such as matchmaking, lobbies, messaging, VOIP, inventory, microtransactions, game orchestration, and authentication. The role also includes exploring new technologies and improving the architecture, tooling, and workflows of services running in an interconnected gaming ecosystem built around Go, C++, Unreal Engine 5, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform. Candidates must have strong programming capabilities with **5+ years of professional experience with Go**, alongside practical experience with large-scale data-intensive systems, Kubernetes, and cloud environments (with GCP preferred). The role also requires professional communication skills in English and comfort taking independent ownership within cross-functional teams. Prior experience with C++, cloud-native databases like Google Spanner, authentication standards such as OpenID, or game engines like Unreal Engine is considered advantageous.
At Embark, you will join the game services group, a collective of teams powering player-facing online functionality, and managing highly scalable backend systems. In this role, you will work with online systems related to player progression, social interaction, game orchestration, monetization and authentication.
The challenges you will solve are similar to those found in distributed data-intensive platforms, but applied to live service games.Most of your time will be spent in a small number of core services, as part of a complex, interconnected gaming ecosystem..
You are expected to take responsibility, ownership and identify what needs to be done. You will be part of a highly collaborative environment where you work together across teams to bring the best experience to our players.
Our core technologies include Go, C++, Unreal Engine 5, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), SQL (using Google Spanner), Redis, Kubernetes, and Bazel.
What you will do
- Design, build, and maintain live service functionality supporting multiple games, such as messaging, VOIP, lobbies, inventory, matchmaking and microtransactions
- Work with distributed backend systems in a live service environment handling millions of players’ data
- Collaborate both within your team and with various other teams to build highly-scalable, secure and reliable online services in our games
- Innovate, and explore new technologies. Improve tooling, workflows, and architecture for our online systems
We think you bring
- Strong programming skills and 5+ years of professional experience with Go
- Experience with large-scale data-intensive systems
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments, preferably GCP
- The ability and passion to take ownership and drive work forward
- A curious mindset and comfort working in highly collaborative environment
- Professional English communication skills
Bonus
- Experience with cloud-native databases, specifically Google Spanner
- Experience building or operating authentication systems using OpenID or similar standards
- Some years of professional experience with C++
- Experience working with game engines, specifically Unreal Engine
At Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.
We welcome game makers of all sex, class, colour, age, gender identity, education, religion, opinion, culture, nation of origin, language, sexual orientation, shape, size, and ability
Did we leave anyone out? Well, we welcome you, too! We think that the gaming industry is made better when everyone has a seat at the table.
Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can’t wait to hear from you (in English)!