Golang / Go Job: Backend Server Engineer

Backend Server Engineer at Certain Affinity

🇺🇸 United States › Texas › Austin   (Posted Oct 25 2017)

About the company
Certain Affinity (CA) was founded in 2006 with the goal of creating innovative, top-quality action games. CA brings an experienced, talented group together to form one of the largest independent developers in Austin, Texas. The company’s 120+ full-time employees include veterans from dozens of successful game studios. Max Hoberman, CA’s founder, serves as President and Creative Director. A 10-year veteran of Bungie, Max was one of the key people responsible for the success of the Halo franchise, having led efforts to bring the game online as Multiplayer, Interface, and Online lead for both Halo 2 and Halo 3.

Job position
Permanent

Job description
Certain Affinity is looking to hire talented backend server programmers to join our growing microservices online team. If you love to write code and want to practice your craft on a diverse set of problems using several technologies then we’d love to hear from you.

Would you like to work on some of the greatest franchises in gaming history? How about more than one? Certain Affinity is an exclusive Austin studio comprised of a tightly-knit group of experienced industry veterans committed to a solid work/life balance. We’re best known for co-developing multiple AAA FPS products, but also work on a few projects of our own, and have very interesting new projects in the works.

Skills & requirements
Responsibilities:

* Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code in Go
* Debug broken code in development and production systems
* Architect solutions that elegantly balance academic and practical approaches
* Collaborate with other engineers to solve difficult problems
* Create sensible time estimates for assigned tasks

Extra Credit:

* Knowledge of Docker and container-based architectures
* Love of video games!

Apply now!