Senior Backend Developer
Toronto
CA$84,588 - CA$98,686/yearly
Senior Level
Top Benefits
Fully Remote: Work from anywhere!
Health Insurance: extended health insurance including dental & vision
Paid Family Leave: additional, paid time off for weddings or babies
About the role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining highly concurrent backend systems
- Proficiency with PHP, Java, Node.js, or C# in production environments
- 5+ years of working experience with MySQL or MariaDB
- Experience with message queues, such as RabbitMQ, in production environments
- 3+ years of experience working in a distributed systems environment
- Strong understanding of backend fundamentals: threading, memory management, load balancing
- Experience in cloud-native development principles and tooling
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with remote teams
- Experience managing and operating Kubernetes clusters in production
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Familiarity with ArgoCD, Helm, Redis, Memcached, Groundcover, or NoSQL databases
- Experience in building highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems
- Knowledge of DevOps practices, including penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and cloud security
What the job involves
- Big Viking Games is looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our Technology team
- Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you’ll work on our flagship live-ops titles – YoWorld and FishWorld
- This hybrid role is suited for a backend expert with experience building scalable systems in the cloud, with a deep understanding of high-concurrency architectures and data-centric design
- You’ll maintain and evolve production systems while playing a critical role in backend modernization projects
- Design, develop, and deploy scalable, highly concurrent cloud-based backend systems
- Maintain existing game services while progressively refactoring components for modernization
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support feature development, LiveOps, and tooling needs
- Ensure backend systems meet performance, reliability, and security standards
- Participate in technical design discussions and architectural decisions
- Conduct code reviews and provide technical mentorship to peers
- Resolve backend performance issues, scalability bottlenecks, and infrastructure concerns
- Document systems and workflows for maintainability and knowledge sharing
- Work in a distributed system environment to build fault-tolerant, resilient services
- Implement data storage strategies using relational and non-relational databases
Benefits
- Fully Remote: Work from anywhere! For over two years, we have been remote only. In that time, we have learned and adapted our global work practices to ensure everyone is supported
- Health Insurance: You can't respawn in real life! We provide extended health insurance including dental & vision so that you can focus on your total wellbeing
- Paid Family Leave:Got a wedding or a baby coming up? Celebrate with additional, paid time off
- Flexible Work Timings: Outside global collaboration hours for team meetings, we have flexible work timings based on what team you've joined
- Stock Options: All employees are owners, and share in the rewards of building a great company
- Personal Growth: Everyone at BVG is offered a variety of training opportunities from Unity to Productivity to Leadership Coaching to Agile. Or you can choose your own courses with Udemy
About Big Viking Games
Entertainment Providers
51-200
Making fans - That's what we're all about!
Since our humble beginnings in 2011, these two words have driven Big Viking Games to become the successful company it is today. We are focused on making our mark by building awesome free-to-play mobile and social games. We're one of the largest independent mobile and social game studios in Canada and a pioneer in mobile HTML5 games!
The company has grown profitably to a team of over 70+ Vikings across two studios in Toronto and London, ON. Prior to 2020, we had 2 studios, but we've now converted to a 100% remote company!
From our beginnings with hits like FishWorld and YoWorld, we strive to become a leader in live operations. Our titles are played by millions of people on iOS, Android, Facebook, and the web.
Senior Backend Developer
Toronto
CA$84,588 - CA$98,686/yearly
Senior Level
Top Benefits
Fully Remote: Work from anywhere!
Health Insurance: extended health insurance including dental & vision
Paid Family Leave: additional, paid time off for weddings or babies
About the role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining highly concurrent backend systems
- Proficiency with PHP, Java, Node.js, or C# in production environments
- 5+ years of working experience with MySQL or MariaDB
- Experience with message queues, such as RabbitMQ, in production environments
- 3+ years of experience working in a distributed systems environment
- Strong understanding of backend fundamentals: threading, memory management, load balancing
- Experience in cloud-native development principles and tooling
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with remote teams
- Experience managing and operating Kubernetes clusters in production
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Familiarity with ArgoCD, Helm, Redis, Memcached, Groundcover, or NoSQL databases
- Experience in building highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems
- Knowledge of DevOps practices, including penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and cloud security
What the job involves
- Big Viking Games is looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our Technology team
- Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you’ll work on our flagship live-ops titles – YoWorld and FishWorld
- This hybrid role is suited for a backend expert with experience building scalable systems in the cloud, with a deep understanding of high-concurrency architectures and data-centric design
- You’ll maintain and evolve production systems while playing a critical role in backend modernization projects
- Design, develop, and deploy scalable, highly concurrent cloud-based backend systems
- Maintain existing game services while progressively refactoring components for modernization
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support feature development, LiveOps, and tooling needs
- Ensure backend systems meet performance, reliability, and security standards
- Participate in technical design discussions and architectural decisions
- Conduct code reviews and provide technical mentorship to peers
- Resolve backend performance issues, scalability bottlenecks, and infrastructure concerns
- Document systems and workflows for maintainability and knowledge sharing
- Work in a distributed system environment to build fault-tolerant, resilient services
- Implement data storage strategies using relational and non-relational databases
Benefits
- Fully Remote: Work from anywhere! For over two years, we have been remote only. In that time, we have learned and adapted our global work practices to ensure everyone is supported
- Health Insurance: You can't respawn in real life! We provide extended health insurance including dental & vision so that you can focus on your total wellbeing
- Paid Family Leave:Got a wedding or a baby coming up? Celebrate with additional, paid time off
- Flexible Work Timings: Outside global collaboration hours for team meetings, we have flexible work timings based on what team you've joined
- Stock Options: All employees are owners, and share in the rewards of building a great company
- Personal Growth: Everyone at BVG is offered a variety of training opportunities from Unity to Productivity to Leadership Coaching to Agile. Or you can choose your own courses with Udemy
About Big Viking Games
Entertainment Providers
51-200
Making fans - That's what we're all about!
Since our humble beginnings in 2011, these two words have driven Big Viking Games to become the successful company it is today. We are focused on making our mark by building awesome free-to-play mobile and social games. We're one of the largest independent mobile and social game studios in Canada and a pioneer in mobile HTML5 games!
The company has grown profitably to a team of over 70+ Vikings across two studios in Toronto and London, ON. Prior to 2020, we had 2 studios, but we've now converted to a 100% remote company!
From our beginnings with hits like FishWorld and YoWorld, we strive to become a leader in live operations. Our titles are played by millions of people on iOS, Android, Facebook, and the web.