Senior Backend Developer

Location:
Remote

Reports to:
VP of Engineering

About 

At , our mission is to build the largest global community for backgammon — connecting players of all levels through world-class mobile experiences. Backgammon has been played for thousands of years, and we're reimagining it for the digital age: making it more accessible, social, and engaging than ever before.

About the Project

You'll help build the world's best and largest online Backgammon community. With many backgammon apps and sites available, there is currently a lack of quality and community that we intend to address. We are building desktop and mobile apps with human-vs-human and human-vs-bot play, as well as community features, to maximize user experience and retention.

About the Role

As the Senior Backend Developer (Mobile Gaming), you'll own server-side components of a distributed gaming system, from low-level code to server deployment. You'll be responsible for tasks such as builds, deployments, testing, error reporting, and performance monitoring. Gaming development experience is a plus, but strong backend development experience is the primary requirement.

Who We're Looking For

You're a backend-focused engineer who enjoys owning systems end-to-end and taking responsibility for how they operate in production. You're comfortable working at a low level when needed, while also designing, deploying, and maintaining reliable services that scale.

You likely:

• Have a strong backend development background and enjoy building performant, reliable server-side systems
• Are comfortable with builds, deployments, testing, monitoring, and debugging production issues
• Take ownership and follow problems through from investigation to resolution
• Enjoy working on small, fast-moving teams that ship frequently
• Communicate clearly and collaborate well in a tight-knit engineering environment

Bonus points if you:

• Have experience with game engines, multiplayer systems, or real-time services
• Have worked on distributed systems or performance-sensitive applications
• Enjoy gaming and are excited about building systems that support great player experiences

Technical Skills

• Standard tooling: Linux, Git/GitHub, Docker, CI/CD, REST APIs
• Go – Game engine and real-time services
• Python/Django – Backend APIs, async patterns
• PostgreSQL – Schema design, query optimization
• WebSockets – Real-time bidirectional communication

Familiarity expected, or ability to learn quickly:

• AWS management
• Real-time multiplayer game architecture
• Horizontally scalable systems
• Cross-platform user accounts
• JSON Schema
• Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry
• Gameplay monetization

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Competitive salary
• Healthcare
• 401K match
• Flexible paid time off policy
• Fun, collaborative culture

Why Join Us?

• Small team, with plans to grow as we scale operations
• Fully remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Self-directed developer culture with autonomy, high standards for code quality, and end-to-end ownership
• Weekly synchronous meetings with the full product, development, and design teams, with additional synchronous meetings as necessary