The Online Software Engineer As an Online Software Engineer, you will help to develop and extend features in the game to facilitate a more connected and socially interactive game experience. An Online Software Engineer will be expected to do full stack development working on both game client and backend services for multiple platforms. You will be working with Designers, Artist and Engineers from other domains to architect, implement, debug and tune features for the game.

Responsibilities:

Develop technical solutions for online game features.
Work with a proprietary engine to develop stable, scalable, efficient and shareable code.
Look for ways to increase team efficiency through tooling or workflow enhancements.
Awareness of how technical implementation impacts our performance and memory budgets.
Iterate and design improvements to live systems and workflows
Work with 3rd party and internal software APIs.

Qualifications:

4+ years of experience in C++ software development.
Experience with Client/Server, Peer-to-Peer and multi-threaded architectures.
Knowledge of modern database technologies.
Knowledge of networking protocols.
Knowledge of good software programming practices.
Experience with 3rd party APIs.
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.

Nice to have:

2+ years of experience working on Microsoft, and Sony game consoles.
Experience of real-time game networking.
Experience with Linux.
Experience with Visual Studio and deep knowledge of the debugging tools.
Experience with source control systems will come in handy.
Experience with scripting languages (Python, Lua) and interpreted languages (C#).

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