Java Game Services Engineer

Founded by veterans in the gaming industry who have helped build games like PUBG, League of Legends, Rocket League and more. Rushdown was created with the philosophy that when talented developers are consistently challenged, given clear ownership and responsibility, extraordinary work can result. As a co-dev game studio, we focus on solving some of the most difficult problems for multiplayer games. We truly love what we do and want to funnel our passion and expertise into features and games that billions of players will enjoy worldwide. Come help us ship amazing games!

The ideal candidate for Rushdown is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. Your primary responsibility will be to build and maintain scalable game services systems. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and have outstanding communication skills.

Rushdown supports remote, and hybrid work in our newly opened office in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with game developers to build backend services to support new in-game features.
• Partner with designers to iterate on features and optimize for player experience.
• Support live features and releases.
• Estimate and prioritize a backlog of features, bugs and tech debt.

Requirements

A great fit for Rushdown is someone who has a strong interest in gaming and is passionate about the work we do. We want to build a team that is positive and supportive of each other who are willing to have the attention to detail and effort needed to make awesome games.

• Strong communicator - proactive about unblocking yourself, asking questions, and navigating obstacles with a team.
• Passionate about video games.
• 4+ years of experience writing high-performance Java applications.
• 3+ years of backend development experience.
• Be able to get up to speed quickly with an existing large code base.
• Comfortable navigating and integrating with one or more of these cloud providers: AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Proficiency in setting up, and deploying Docker services.
• Experience writing and handling communication between microservices.
• Experience using Git

Benefits

Pay: $100,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year

• $300 yearly video game budget
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance