Company Description
Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide and has grown considerably through a strong and diversified line-up of products and partnerships. Ubisoft has development studios in 28 countries and sells video games in more than 55 countries around the globe. We are committed to delivering high-quality, state of the art video game titles to players. In our German offices in Düsseldorf, Mainz and Berlin, we are working on brands like “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege”, “For Honor", "Skull & Bones", “The Settlers”, “Anno”, “Far Cry” and many more.
The newly established Ubisoft Berlin studio is set to continue contributing to this impressive line-up and will be working on AAA Co-Development projects together with international Ubisoft teams.
We Are Ubisoft Berlin
At Ubisoft Berlin, we are steadily growing. We are collaborating on the award-winning “Far Cry” series together with international Ubisoft teams, Skull & Bones and we are paving the way for even more!
As a newly established Ubisoft studio, we have an ambitious but humble approach to the contribution we want to bring to AAA game development in Germany. We are committed to excellence; we want to dedicate ourselves to delivering inspiring and meaningful game experiences that will empower our players and make them feel part of the worlds, we create.
We encourage an autonomous and entrepreneurial mindset tailored to our highly motivated talents to create experiences that leave a mark in the games industry as a whole.
Come and join us in one of the most creative and dynamic cities in the world!
We are now accepting applications for Backend Programmers of all levels of seniority to be based at our new studio in Berlin.
Job Description
As a Backend Programmer you will:
- Collaborate with designers and gameplay programmers to bring new features into the game
- Develop and maintain backend parts of game specific features
- Integrate monitoring solutions
- Continuously improve the fidelity of the online experience (anti-cheating, latency etc.)
- Provide support to live service teams
- Review the work of other engineers
- Create and maintain technical documentation
As a Senior Backend Programmer you will:
- Design and implement backend parts of game specific features
- Collaborate with local and remote teams to analyze technical requirements
- Review the work of other engineers
- Integrate monitoring solutions
- Design scenarios for load tests
- Design tools that will enable live support teams to be self-sufficient
- Continuously improve the fidelity of the online experience (anti-cheating, latency etc.)
- Improve performance and resilience of the backend infrastructure
- Manage and mentor individuals within the engineering team
Qualifications
We aim to have a wide and diverse range of profiles within our studio; thus, we are looking forward to being surprised by your application. The most important quality for us is to be a strong team player with a resilient and positive attitude.
General job requirements
- Bachelor or master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field
- Solid knowledge of C#
- Followed at least one project from the concept phase to production
- Knowledge of microservices and microservices architecture
- Experience with RESTful web services
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)
- Excellent communication and English skills
- Self-motivated and autonomous
Nice to have
- Proficiency in C++
- Experience in developing highly data-driven applications
- Experience in developing containerized applications
- Experience with common stacks of deployment and monitoring tools
- Knowledge of CI/CD
- Experience in guiding and mentoring more junior programmers
- Passion for videogames
For a Senior position:
- Bachelor or master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field · Expert knowledge of C# and .NET Core
- Proficiency in C++
- Experience with full life cycle of SaaS projects: from the concept phase to the launch and live operations
- Solid knowledge of microservices and microservices architecture
- Experience in designing scalable distributed systems
- Experience in developing highly data-driven applications
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)
- Experience with Cloud platforms (i.e. AWS or GCP) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes/Docker Swarm)
- Experience with common stacks of deployment and monitoring tools
- Excellent communication and English skills
- Experience in guiding and mentoring other programmers
Nice to have:
- Experience in videogames industry
- Experience with leading a development team
- Experience with meeting security and compliance requirements
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Passion for videogames
Additional Information
What we want to offer you:
We want to build a studio in which everyone feels inspired, empowered and connected. We believe developers do their best work when they feel empowered. We thus aim to give you a lot of autonomy. In return, we expect you to be self-responsible and stay on top of your game by continuously developing your skills. Furthermore, we know it is important for a developer to feel comfortable. With that in mind, we aim to provide a variety of everyday benefits which we hope will help you feel great including:
- Flexible working hours
- External training, education in our in-house guilds and knowledge sharing with other project teams
- Fresh fruit, discounted gym membership, support for child care, company pension scheme
- Share ideas! = Working in an innovative and international company
If you are passionate about video games and would like to work with like-minded professionals with an international team, please apply via our career portal. Applications should include your resume, a cover letter with the earliest starting date, your salary expectation and why you would like to joins us.
For further information please check our website.
