C++ Backend Developer

We’re looking for an experienced C++ backend developer to join the services team. As part of the team, you will develop, design and deploy distributed backend services that power the desktop client and PC titles with focus on high availability, low latency and scalability. You’ll be using a wide spectrum of technologies ranging from Protocol buffers, RESTful APIs, databases such as MySQL, Apache Cassandra and Graph databases. 
You will join a multi-disciplinary team where everyone is willing to expand their knowledge and encouraged to continue learning new things. The team is characterized by passion, comradery and the love for pc gaming. You will work in close collaboration with the other programmers, designers and testers to help us realize the PC gaming platform. 

Responsibilities: 
- Participating in or leading feature task forces for technical design and implementation/improvements of new features. 
- Testing, debugging, profiling and maintaining existing code. This covers topics such as: game data distribution, network architecture modelling, database management, game content related data management (e.g., Achievements), server monitoring, social features (e.g., chat, friends), API integrations, and much more. 
- Building highly scalable services with low latency. 
- Writing clear, modular and maintainable code. 

You as a person: 
You’re driven person that is passionate about developing software platform for games with millions of users. Furthermore, you believe in team ownership of what you create and you will be working with your colleagues to learn, share ideas and solve complex problems. Besides the above we’re looking for someone aligned with our core values and the following skills and experience.. 

Key Qualifications: 
- Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or equivalent. 
- 2+ years of professional programming experience in C++. 
- Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures. 
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs, 
- Bonus if you have experience in one of the following languages: C#, Python, JavaScript (nodejs) 
- Experience with at least one of the following: 
relational databases (MySQL), graph databases (AWS Neptune) and NoSQL databases (Apache Cassandra) 

Desirable: 
- Docker containers. 
- Asynchronous programming. 
- Multi-threaded applications. 
- Developing for cross platform. 
- AWS (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible etc.)