Lead Online Engineer

About the job

Make your positive impact on the future of gaming

The gaming industry is changing at lightning speed. From the growth of free-to-play and battle royale games, to the arrival of play-to-earn games and GameFi, the industry is evolving at a rapid pace. Nyan Heroes is at the forefront of this evolution focused on building a AAA battle royale game that is launching its alpha late 2022. To further involve and empower players fairly in every aspect of the game and economy, Nyan Heroes will be leveraging the benefits of the blockchain while also positioning itself as the benchmark for fair, sustainable game development in this space. We aim to lead the advancement of the GameFi industry technologically, ethically, and inspirationally.

About the role

The Lead Online Engineer will be in charge of implementing the online features of the game. This includes game server management on Azure, matchmaking, player profile, player analytics, etc. This role will work closely with the Network Engineers to ensure optimal game network performance and online infrastructure.

They will need to have a good understanding of cloud online infrastructure and its impact on the game network, client/server model, advance matchmaking, and highly scalable sql/nosql databases.

The Lead Online Engineer will need to work in a full stack environment, from game client (Unreal Engine 5 and C++), to web services (C#, Nodejs), and everything in between (powershell scripting, VMs etc.).

What you’ll be doing

The Lead Online Engineer will be expected to fulfil the following activities:

• Manage and lead the Game Online Team
• Manage architecture and deploy the online infrastructure to Azure Cloud
• Implementation of web services endpoints
• Configuration and administration of scalable databases (sql/nosql) in the cloud
• Game implementation of online features
• Matchmaking services
• Configuration and deployment of dedicated server VMs

About you

• Experience: 10+ years in engineering, 2+ years in a lead role
• Skills: Proficient in C++, C#, Nodejs, Powershell
• Prior Experience shipping an online AAA or High fidelity Mobile game
• Good understanding of online topology and cloud infrastructure
• Proficient with SQL, Mongo DB
• Deep understanding Azure Cloud resources (firewall, load balancers, vms, containers, etc.)
• Ability to work remotely and independently, with flexible hours
• Passion about gaming, crypto and blockchain technology
• Ability to work remotely and independently with flexible hours
• Strong communication skills
• Optional: you love cats and enjoy our humour
• Optional: Proficient in UE4/UE5
• Optional: Experience with git-flow
• Optional: Experience with common high level languages (Angular, TypeScript, python, etc.)

FAQs

• Location: From anywhere in the world. We are globally remote.
• Equity/tokens available: Yes
• Start date: ASAP

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