Greetings from PTW!
Job Summary:
We are seeking a skilled Backend Software Engineer to join our team to help design and build a scalable architecture that will run our new mobile UGC social entertainment platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in microservice architecture, server-side logic, database management, cloud services, and be passionate about building systems that are secure, efficient, and capable of handling high volumes of concurrent users.
Responsibilities:
• Help design and implement a scalable microservice architecture for our UGC social entertainment platform.
• Write clean, well-documented code in Go for backend services. Develop and maintain APIs to support platform functionality.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and team members to establish a clear path to deliverable milestones.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Implement data protection and security measures.
• Manage hosting environments, including database administration and scaling applications to handle load changes.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and technology developments.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer
• Proven experience as a Server Engineer or equivalent role.
• Previous experience building scalable microservice architecture for an application with a large number of concurrent users.
• Strong understanding of server-side languages such as Go, Java, Node.js.
• Deep familiarity with the HTTP protocol and API technologies such as gRPC, REST and OpenAPI.
• Experience with database and caching technologies (i.e. Mongo, Firestore, MySQL, Redis)
• Experience with cloud services such as GCP, AWS or Azure
• Familiar with containerization and deployment technologies such as kubernetes
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
Additional Skills:
• Comfort working in a fast-pace, non-hierarchical, startup like environment
• Comfort wearing a number of “hats” and willingness to dive into new technologies.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Experience with security compliance standards relevant to the social media industry.
What we offer:
- The opportunity to join our growing business at an exciting time.
- Dynamic and entrepreneurial culture.
Who we are:
PTW is a global games services company, providing technical and creative services to many of the largest developers and studios around the world. Founded in Japan in 1994, PTW has grown to become a global force in the gaming industry, with over 40 studios in 16 countries worldwide and offices across North America, Europe, South America, and Asia.
Our industry-leading services include art production, game development, quality assurance, player support, community management, localization, localization QA, audio production, and data collection. The PTW family of brands includes SIDE, 1518 Studios and Ghostpunch Games.
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What We Do
We’re a global team of passionate, hard-working, ambitious gamers, whose goal is always to make every gamer's experience as perfect as possible. We’re dedicated to helping your players, because they’re part of our community too. We’ve been working hard for players, clients, and the games industry for over 26 years, providing industry-leading services to every part of the globe.
We believe great work gets done by teams who love what they do. This is why we approach every solution with an all-minds-on-deck strategy that leverages our global workforce's strength, creativity, and passion.
8,500+ passionate gamers
650+ top developers and publishers as clients
5.3 million hours QA testing
7 year average client partner tenure
2,500+ LQA titles
PTW is a boutique games services company with 40 offices in 11 countries worldwide. Our range of services include quality assurance, localization, customer experience, art production, game development services, and audio production services.
We believe that innovation comes in all sizes, which is why we take on projects of any size and love crafting a custom solution, no matter the scale.
PTW, comprised of global subsidiaries, is a UK-based holding company formed in 2016 under the umbrella of Poletowin Pitcrew Holdings, Inc. which is listed on the 1st Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange as 3657.
The PTW group includes SIDE, 1518 Studios, Entalize, The Game Dev Show, and OR Esports.
