Senior BACKEND GO ENGINEER
Top Benefits
About the role
Shape the future of AI-powered storytelling by mastering client engineering and cloud-driven multiplayer systems
Full-time, remote.
Backed by top-tier investors who have invested in Open AI, Unity, Supercell and others, we're building a platform that reimagines storytelling as play—combining intuitive creation tools, emotionally expressive characters, and collaborative world-building.
The Role As our Senior Backend Engineer , you will design and build Go-based services that ingest, index, and serve every piece of player-generated content with blazing-fast responsiveness , from vector search queries to live game state lookups. Working hand-in-hand with our Senior Unity developers, product managers, and design team, you will define clear, high-performance APIs and ensure seamless real-time multiplayer flows between client and cloud.
This is a senior individual contributor engineering role . You’ll drive reliability and performance by optimizing PostgreSQL schemas and queries, tuning Redis caches, and instrumenting services with Prometheus and Grafana to sustain 99.9 % uptime under rapid growth. In this hands-on role, you’ll lead by example through contributing code, evolving our CI/CD, Kubernetes deployments, and observability practices. If you thrive on fast iteration, obsessive craftsmanship, and building the backbone of a viral AI-powered storytelling platform, you’ll find your home at Storycraft.gg.
What You'll Do
- Own Core Backend & Data Infrastructure Drive end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of our Go-based services for core gameplay systems and serving player-generated content.
- Design for Scale & Reliability Lead the development of distributed systems (microservices, event queues, sharding), leveraging Kubernetes, containerization, and service mesh patterns.
- Collaborate Across Teams Partner with frontend engineers and game designers ship delightful, high-performance features that engage players.
- Influence Strategy Contribute to Storycraft’s technical roadmap, product vision, and long-term business strategy as a core member of our engineering team.
You Bring
- Proven Experience 5+ years building production-grade backend systems at product-driven companies.
- Go Mastery Deep expertise in Go (standard library, concurrency, profiling, testing). Familiarity with Python is a plus.
- Data & Caching Strong background with Postgres (schema design, indexing, replication) and in-memory stores (Redis or Memcache).
- Distributed Systems Hands-on experience with microservices, message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ), sharding, and fault-tolerant architectures.
- Container Orchestration Production Kubernetes experience: writing Helm charts or Kustomize manifests, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, autoscaling.
- Results-Driven Mindset A track record of shipping with velocity, owning end-to-end deliverables, and iterating rapidly based on data.
Bonus Points For
- Based in Canada, and/or ET timezone
- Experience with GCP
- Demonstrated expertise in AI-assisted programming workflows
- Prior startup experience or shipping a complete game on your own
- Experience with integrating LLMs or Diffusion models in production and/or assessing AI performance through evals
- Have prior startup experience
This Isn't Just a Job—it's a Rare Opportunity To Co-create a New Category Of Game At The Intersection Of Storytelling, AI, And Player Expression. We're a Lean, High-trust Team Building Fast, Learning Constantly, And Thinking Long-term. That Means
- You'll lead through doing. Strategy is important, but execution is where the magic happens.
- You'll be scrappy and smart. We use AI, feedback loops, and focused iteration to do more with less.
- You'll have real ownership. You won't be "supporting" the product—you'll be shaping it every day.
- You'll grow faster than anywhere else. This is a career-defining opportunity to learn, stretch, and contribute at a level few companies allow.
- You'll have equity with real upside. We're building something ambitious. If we win, you win.
- You'll make an impact that matters. Players already say Storycraft "feels like magic." You'll help scale that magic into something unforgettable.
We're not looking for passengers—we're looking for builders , owners , and creative leaders who want to leave their mark.
About Ironbelly Studios
Ironbelly Studios is comprised of a talented, passionate and dedicated number of game developers from all corners of the globe. Our focus is on creating high quality entertainment experiences as well as providing outsourcing services at a fraction of the cost seen elsewhere.
Senior BACKEND GO ENGINEER
Top Benefits
About the role
Shape the future of AI-powered storytelling by mastering client engineering and cloud-driven multiplayer systems
Full-time, remote.
Backed by top-tier investors who have invested in Open AI, Unity, Supercell and others, we're building a platform that reimagines storytelling as play—combining intuitive creation tools, emotionally expressive characters, and collaborative world-building.
The Role As our Senior Backend Engineer , you will design and build Go-based services that ingest, index, and serve every piece of player-generated content with blazing-fast responsiveness , from vector search queries to live game state lookups. Working hand-in-hand with our Senior Unity developers, product managers, and design team, you will define clear, high-performance APIs and ensure seamless real-time multiplayer flows between client and cloud.
This is a senior individual contributor engineering role . You’ll drive reliability and performance by optimizing PostgreSQL schemas and queries, tuning Redis caches, and instrumenting services with Prometheus and Grafana to sustain 99.9 % uptime under rapid growth. In this hands-on role, you’ll lead by example through contributing code, evolving our CI/CD, Kubernetes deployments, and observability practices. If you thrive on fast iteration, obsessive craftsmanship, and building the backbone of a viral AI-powered storytelling platform, you’ll find your home at Storycraft.gg.
What You'll Do
- Own Core Backend & Data Infrastructure Drive end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of our Go-based services for core gameplay systems and serving player-generated content.
- Design for Scale & Reliability Lead the development of distributed systems (microservices, event queues, sharding), leveraging Kubernetes, containerization, and service mesh patterns.
- Collaborate Across Teams Partner with frontend engineers and game designers ship delightful, high-performance features that engage players.
- Influence Strategy Contribute to Storycraft’s technical roadmap, product vision, and long-term business strategy as a core member of our engineering team.
You Bring
- Proven Experience 5+ years building production-grade backend systems at product-driven companies.
- Go Mastery Deep expertise in Go (standard library, concurrency, profiling, testing). Familiarity with Python is a plus.
- Data & Caching Strong background with Postgres (schema design, indexing, replication) and in-memory stores (Redis or Memcache).
- Distributed Systems Hands-on experience with microservices, message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ), sharding, and fault-tolerant architectures.
- Container Orchestration Production Kubernetes experience: writing Helm charts or Kustomize manifests, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, autoscaling.
- Results-Driven Mindset A track record of shipping with velocity, owning end-to-end deliverables, and iterating rapidly based on data.
Bonus Points For
- Based in Canada, and/or ET timezone
- Experience with GCP
- Demonstrated expertise in AI-assisted programming workflows
- Prior startup experience or shipping a complete game on your own
- Experience with integrating LLMs or Diffusion models in production and/or assessing AI performance through evals
- Have prior startup experience
This Isn't Just a Job—it's a Rare Opportunity To Co-create a New Category Of Game At The Intersection Of Storytelling, AI, And Player Expression. We're a Lean, High-trust Team Building Fast, Learning Constantly, And Thinking Long-term. That Means
- You'll lead through doing. Strategy is important, but execution is where the magic happens.
- You'll be scrappy and smart. We use AI, feedback loops, and focused iteration to do more with less.
- You'll have real ownership. You won't be "supporting" the product—you'll be shaping it every day.
- You'll grow faster than anywhere else. This is a career-defining opportunity to learn, stretch, and contribute at a level few companies allow.
- You'll have equity with real upside. We're building something ambitious. If we win, you win.
- You'll make an impact that matters. Players already say Storycraft "feels like magic." You'll help scale that magic into something unforgettable.
We're not looking for passengers—we're looking for builders , owners , and creative leaders who want to leave their mark.
About Ironbelly Studios
Ironbelly Studios is comprised of a talented, passionate and dedicated number of game developers from all corners of the globe. Our focus is on creating high quality entertainment experiences as well as providing outsourcing services at a fraction of the cost seen elsewhere.