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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, cutting-edge 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", "James Cameron's Avatar", "Beyond Good and Evil 2", "Far Cry", "The Settlers", "Anno" and many more.

Job Description

As part of the production team, you will be involved in the development of features and components throughout the full spectrum of technology in the server infrastructure. You will be using a variety of technologies and programming languages, including but not limited to C++, Python and web technologies.
You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team of programmers, designers and testers where everyone is willing to share their knowledge and are encouraged to evolve every day. The team spans across several countries and is characterized by passion, collaboration and the love for PC gaming.
You will also have the option to visit and work from collaborating studios.
As part of the team, you will develop, design and deploy distributed backend services that power our desktop client and Ubisoft's PC titles with focus on high availability, low latency and scalability. You will be using a wide spectrum of technologies ranging from Protocol Buffers, REST APIs, MySQL and Cassandra databases.

  • Writing clear, modular and maintainable code.
  • Work on the server backend of Uplay. This covers topics such as: game data distribution, network architecture, database management, game related data management, server monitoring, API integrations.
  • Be part of an agile team and do the technical design and implementation/improvements of new features.
  • Building highly scalable services with low latency.
  • Testing, debugging, profiling and maintaining existing code.

Qualifications

You are seeking the opportunity to contribute your own passions to one of the biggest gaming platforms while expanding your experience and knowledge.

  • Highly confident in C++
  • Knowledge in at least one of following:
    Network Architecture, Backend Services, TypeScript, JavaScript, Databases (SQL)

Nice to have:

  • C#
  • Python
  • HTML
  • WinAPI
  • Protocol Buffers
  • REST
  • NoSQL
  • Network Security
  • AWS