As a Backend Engineer at Embark you will be an integral part of a highly creative game team focused on building powerful and reusable infrastructure and backend components for our games.

Here you will have the opportunity to take initiative and drive finding solutions to exciting challenges, building the services that power our games, making sure they scale and continuously improve on them.

As our game is distributed between game client, game server and the cloud, you’ll work together with your team to figure out which parts of the problem to solve in which location. At Embark we believe in creating smaller teams of well-aligned experts that can be trusted to create games and keep them running.

You will be working mainly on matchmaking, but also, data analytic, game client, backend service infrastructures, etc. Some of the technologies we use to make all of those are Go, C++, GCP, Bazel, Kubernetes, Grafana, Google Spanner.

Example of responsibilities 

• Design, build, and operate matchmaking features, services, and developer tools

• Own matchmaking systems in production, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance for live games

• Drive technical design and architecture of matchmaking flows across client, game server, and backend services

• Collaborate with other backend services, gameplay, and infrastructure teams to resolve matchmaking challenges

• Partner with data analysts to evaluate matchmaking quality and drive data-informed improvements

We would love if you have

• A creative and curious mindset with a passion for interactive experiences, games, and new technologies

• Solid understanding of designing, building, and operating complex distributed systems, with performance, scalability, and observability in mind

• Comfortable working across domains, including backend services, data analytics, game clients, infrastructure, and observability

• Professional experience with Go and modern backend technologies

• A collaborative mindset with strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-disciplinary teams

• Interest in taking initiatives and driving finding solutions to exciting challenges

• Professional English communication skills

 Additionally, we think it would be a great bonus if you are

• Experience building or operating matchmaking systems, or similar large-scale, player-facing services

• Familiar with data analytics and able to support your hypotheses with data-driven insights

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)!