Backend Engineer

You will be a core contributor to the Web Services team, designing, developing, and maintaining the high-performance, scalable backend services that power the entire ecosystem. This role ensures reliable, fast API access for game clients, developers, and users globally. You will use modern technologies to build robust systems, directly contributing to the platform's stability and future scalability under global traffic and high concurrency.

About

We believe that User-Generated Content (UGC) is an exciting new frontier for game engagement and longevity. Our service empowers developers and publishers to unlock the potential of their player base by fostering vibrant modding ecosystems, and facilitating in-game marketplaces for paid UGC. Backed by leading investors like Tencent, Play Ventures, Makers Fund, and LEGO, we're dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technology that supports both creators and studios.

• Understanding and actioning the technical requirements for integrating middleware with game clients, mod creators, payment providers, and stores which is reflected in your contributions.
• Working alongside our frontend, metrics and in-game development teams to understand, define and develop our REST API to fit their needs.
• Testing and implementing your code with a strong attention to detail and maintainability.
• Reviewing code of other team members as if you wrote it yourself.
• Delivering clean, performant, tested and secure code that will be used by millions of concurrent players all around the world on some of the biggest games available.
• Keeping your house clean, your code may be open sourced on Github and must be well documented for our community to fork and adapt as they need.
  

Culture

• Be a doer in a Start-up like, Scale-up company, be ready to pull your sleeves up and tackle any task small or project scale. Be it provisioning a new laptop for another team member or helping us build a new Cloud environment and feature for millions of users.
• Embody our values, be awesome and work with awesome people. Set an example for others to follow, which strives for and delivers the best outcomes for our partners and prospects.
• Embrace feedback, ensuring constructive feedback is given and received in the right way. Speak freely, we're a smallish company of 50 people, we need to solve hard problems together and get to the point quickly. 
• Provide clear communication, own your work, and have fun.

What You Need To Be Successful

• 2+ years PHP experience working with Laravel.
• Experience with NoSQL key-stores such as Redis & relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, etc).
• An ability to write high quality, modern PHP code using the Laravel framework.
• A strong understanding of RESTful API's and how applications consume them.
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services' such as ECS, S3, Lambda, SNS, SES, SQS, EC2, RDS.
• Familiarity with testing suites such as PHPUnit, with the expectation that all code you write is thoroughly tested.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized applications.
• Confidence in your ability to contribute to a project from start to finish with little oversight from senior team members.
• An excitement to dig in and experiment, with real attention to detail and to challenge conventions
• A hunger to own your code, improve your craft, and create a kick ass experience for millions of gamers along the way.
  

It would be awesome if you also have:

• A passion for video games and an understanding of the unique challenges UGC presents us and similar businesses like Youtube and Steam.
• Experience with C# and ASP .NET
• Familiarity with Frontend development & Single-page applications (SPA's)
• Familiarity with
• Experience with Swagger/OpenAPI

Why Join

• Impact: Be a key driver in shaping the future of UGC in gaming and supporting some of the biggest and most beloved titles ever made.
• Innovation: Work on cutting-edge technology at the intersection of gaming, platforms, and creator economies. Help us solve problems that haven't been considered before.
• Growth: Join at an exciting time as the company is gaining market traction and has significant growth potential.
• Culture: Be part of a passionate, collaborative, and supportive team dedicated to empowering creators and developers, also don't you just want to work with fun and smart folks?
• Place & Flexibility: Enjoy hybrid work with flexibility and work alongside colleagues in our decked out Prahran office, with easy access to Hawksburn train station.
• ESOP: We have an Employee Share Option Plan so that you can be part of what you help build.

This is a genuinely exciting and key role for you'll be close to the leadership team and there will be opportunities to be across so many projects it'll make your head spin. It'll be fun. If you're after a dynamic work environment, work with rad folks, working on cool tech, we can't wait to meet you.