Senior Real-time Game Backend Engineer

We are hiring for an international Gaming technology company developing real-time gaming platforms and in-house game systems.

Position: Senior Real-Time Game Backend Engineer

Location: Taipei, Taiwan / Remote (Malaysia & Europe)

Work Arrangement: Onsite in Taipei or Remote depending on location

Language: Fluent English and Mandarin

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop real-time, stateful backend systems for online games.
• Build and maintain Game Manager systems responsible for game rounds, state transitions, game results, and session/table states.
• Develop event-driven services handling real-time game events and streaming data.
• Ensure transaction integrity, result consistency, auditability, and high availability.
• Design systems that can safely handle concurrent events, failures, retries, and unexpected production scenarios.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and contribute to system architecture and technical improvements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in real-time backend development, online game servers, or similar systems.
• Strong experience with stateful and event-driven architectures.
• Experience building high-availability backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs and/or WebSocket.
• Strong experience in at least one of Java/Kotlin/Go
• Experience with PostgreSQL and/or Redis.
• Strong understanding of backend architecture, concurrency, distributed systems, and system reliability.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a real-time gaming systems.
• Experience handling real-time production incidents and complex distributed-system failures.