Treehouse Games is looking for amazing people who are excited to create games that are the best way for friends to spend time together.

Our Engineering team is looking for a Backend Engineer Generalist who’s motivated and flexible to dive into the problem spaces and challenges involved with operating a live-service game, such as: infrastructure pipelines, platform tech integration, and dev tools.

Who You Are...

• Proficient at working in a fully remote team environment. We balance synchronous and asynchronous communication across multiple time zones to get things done.
• Eager to tackle any challenge and flex out of your comfort zone. “T-Shaped Engineers” who don’t believe in staying in their lane thrive here.
• Proactive at identifying areas of concern and relentlessly pursuing it. We're a small team and the impact of each person is huge!
• Approachable and empathic. We value building trust in each other through considerate communication and respectful discussions.
• Excited to further our company mission of cooperative games with a focus on fun experiences with friends. We're making games we want to play!

If this sounds like you, keep reading... 

Responsibilities...

• Integrate backend middleware services and content delivery mechanisms that enable features in and around our live service game
• Empower the internal development team with technologies and solutions that accelerate iteration efficiency, including build/deploy pipelines and dev tooling
• Identify tech targets with technical leadership that address scalability, sustainability, and key build-vs-buy decisions
• Work closely and collaborate in a fully cross-functional team. Bring ideas, provide feedback, and expose backend technologies to improve both the player-facing game and our team’s internal development process

Requirements...

• 5+ years of experience in backend development in a production-ready environment
• Expertise with one or more server-side development stacks (Golang-preferred)
• Experience on a full game-development production cycle.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms, such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Even Better...

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine 4 or 5
• Experience multiplayer game platforms for online games that provide services in the areas of: matchmaking, analytics, player accounts, social features, LiveOps
• Experience with DevOps solutions, such as orchestration/containerization (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes), monitoring (New Relic, Grafana/Kibana), and CI/CD (Jenkins)

Compensation

Within the U.S., the standard minimum base pay for this role is $120,000 Annual. Actual salary will vary depending on experience, performance, and location. In addition to competitive salary, employees in this role will also earn equity. Stock options are a large part of our compensation philosophy of investing in Treehouse's future together and sharing in success.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Early Company Equity
• Medical Travel Support
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Company-paid life insurance
• 401k plan with 3% company matching
• Flexible work schedule
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Extended Winter Break
• Remote Work

Treehouse Games is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.