Senior Backend & Game Engine Developer

​​Location: Remote
Reports to: VP of Engineering

About Backgammon.com

At Backgammon.com, our mission is to build the largest global community for backgammon — connecting players of all levels through world-class mobile experiences. Backgammon has been played for thousands of years, and we’re reimagining it for the digital age: making it more accessible, social, and engaging than ever before.

About the Project

You’ll help build the world’s best and largest online Backgammon community. With many Backgammon apps and sites out there, there is a shocking lack of quality and community that we intend to fill. Desktop and mobile apps with human-vs.-human and human-vs.-bot play, as well as community features, to maximize user experience and retention.

About the Role

As the Backend & Game Engine Developer, you'll own server-side components of a distributed gaming system, all the way from low-level code to server deployment. You’ll be responsible for administrative tasks such as builds, deployments, testing, error reporting, and performance monitoring. Having gaming development experience is a nice plus but if you have strong backend development experience we would love to have you apply. 

Who We’re Looking For

You’re a backend-focused engineer who enjoys owning systems end-to-end and taking responsibility for how they operate in production. You’re comfortable working at a low level when needed, while also designing, deploying, and maintaining reliable services that scale.

You likely:

• Have a strong backend development background and enjoy building performant, reliable server-side systems

• Are comfortable with builds, deployments, testing, monitoring, and debugging production issues

• Take ownership and follow problems through from investigation to resolution

• Enjoy working on small, fast-moving teams that ship frequently

• Communicate clearly and collaborate well in a tight-knit engineering environment

Bonus points if you:

• Have experience with game engines, multiplayer systems, or real-time services

• Have worked on distributed systems or performance-sensitive applications

• Enjoy gaming and are excited about building systems that support great player experiences

Technical Skills

• Standard tooling: Linux, Git/Github, Docker, CI/CD, REST APIs

• Go - Game engine and real-time services

• Python / Django - Backend APIs, async patterns

• PostgreSQL - Schema design, query optimization

• WebSockets - Real-time bidirectional communication

Familiarity expected, or able to learn quickly:

• AWS management

• Real-time multiplayer game architecture

• Horizontally scalable systems

• Cross-platform user accounts

• JSON Schema

• Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry

• Gameplay monetization

Benefits

• 100% remote work

• Competitive salary

• Healthcare

• 401K Match

• Unlimited paid time off

• Fun, collaborative culture

Why join us?

• Small team, which will increase in size as we scale operations.

• Fully remote, and largely asynchronous. We need a self-directed developer comfortable with autonomy, high standards for code quality, and end-to-end ownership.

• Weekly synchronous meetings with the full product, development, and design teams, with additional synchronous meetings as necessary.

Backgammon.com asks respectfully to only apply through the application form and not email/apply to them directly. Recruiters and Agencies please do not contact Backgammon.com directly.