As a Backend Engineer at Embark, you will be a Gamemaker in a technical team that builds automation solutions for the commercial activities of our games; including performance marketing, monetization, customer support, and the analytics and data pipeline. The objective of the team is to build scalable and cost-efficient solutions in creating a dynamic and profitable player journey. You will work closely with all parts of the commercial team, the game teams as well as the data teams. You will report to the Head of Commercial Tech.
As an integral part of a creative and autonomous team, you will help create and improve the high-quality and polished experiences we want to provide to our players. Some of the technologies we use are Go, Python, PubSub, BigQuery, Bazel, Terraform, Kubernetes.
Example of responsibilities
- Build internal tools and automated solutions for
- Personalized store recommendations
- Cost-efficient and scalable user acquisition
- Reporting and large-scale A/B testing
- Enabling balancing of our games by serving insights back to the game teams using the gameplay data we collect
- Continuously improve our engineering practices and automate existing workflows to make sure our services are easy to deploy, scale and maintain
- Collaborate and work closely with multiple teams to deliver products for a smooth player experience
We would love if you have
- Solid experience with the technologies we use such as Go, Python and the GCP stack
- Experience deploying and maintaining services on a cloud infrastructure
- Background working with analytics and data-driven tooling
- An analytical mindset, self-drive and a can-do attitude to drive projects from idea to product
- Background in the gaming industry or other consumer-facing products
- A passion for games, interactive experiences and new technologies
- Extra points if you have experience building simple frontends for internal tools
Our culture
At Embark we offer competitive salaries, a generous profit-sharing program, 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)!
If this role doesn't quite match what you're looking for, feel free to apply to us via our "Open Application."
