Senior Software Engineer, FACEIT
Platform and Game Servers
Gaming platform for online multiplayer games
Open for applications
Gaming platform for online multiplayer games
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To further the esports ecosystem by offering players of all levels the chance to compete in a competitive environment with the games they love.
Role
Who you are
- For our Platform and Game Servers Team, we’re looking for a senior software engineer with a platform background who can help us realize the platform vision at EFG
- You'll need a solid background in building APIs using Golang and a good understanding of gRPC, databases, and the architectural principles guiding the systems you've developed from inception to implementation
- While you excel as a software engineer, your passion lies in networking, demonstrating your knowledge of how global networks operate
- It will be a bonus point if you have experience in gaming-related networks and optimizing their performance, including aspects such as network acceleration, backbone networks, and network peering
- Current commercial experience with Go/Golang on large scalable projects
- Ability to design distributed APIs and scheduled procedures
- Experience working within a large microservices environment
- Excellent knowledge of RESTful/gRPC or APIs and their development
- Good understanding of Async communication
- Proven experience working with various databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
- Experience with Docker or Kubernetes at a production scale
- Production experience with a major cloud provider
- Experience with Terraform
- In-depth understanding of testing strategies and approaches (Unit testing, integration testing, e2e testing, smoke testing)
- Previous experience working on large, complex applications
- Commercial experience in distributed networking and experience in developing low latency networks
- Clear written communication for technical design documentation
- A passion for video games and esports is a plus
What the job involves
- Your role will involve splitting your time between enhancing the next generation of game server platforms at FACEIT and sharing responsibility for the cloud platform that supports the wider EFG ecosystem
- Develop software for the platform and game servers team ensuring high quality, well tested and performant code reaches production
- Design systems, architectect solutions and improve performance of the cloud platform and game servers offering at EFG
- As this role is both software engineering and cloud management, the ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of cloud systems, patters and Terraform, as well as commercial experience in Golang
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Young people are increasingly turning away from traditional media, and gaming has in recent years become a professional spectator sport that draws huge online crowds. FACEIT is a competitive gaming platform that allows developers to run their own online tournaments, providing ranking charts, skill-based matchmaking and anti-cheat software to ensure that these events are as fair as any traditional sporting competition.
The esports market is projected to be worth about £4.5 billion globally by 2030, and FACEIT has attracted large scale investments as it continues to innovate in this market. Not all of its moves have panned out - for instance its foray into crypto gaming in 2022 could have come at a better time, but its pivot to non-intrusive in-game advertising has been well received by developers and is a testament to the adaptability of the company.
FACEIT is continuing to release and support new gaming products, for instance a car racing tournament released in colloboration with RENNSPORT, where established esports teams and car manufacturers will compete for a prize pool of €500,000. An Overwatch tournament launched in 2024 with a cash prize pool of $170,000. As the esports market shows no sign of slowing down, FACEIT will remain in a strong position to grow alongside it.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
18% female employees
-38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2019
$12m
SERIES B
Jan 2016
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $29m
Company benefits
- Fully remote or relocation to London supported
- Private Medical Insurance
- Travel Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Cashback on dental care
- Lunch provided daily (when you’re in the office!)
- Kitchen stocked with refreshments (coffee machines everywhere – our founding team is Italian after all!)
- Company book club, and gaming nights
- Flexible working environment
- Company (virtual) drinks session every Friday
- Quarterly team outings
- Your professional growth is important to us. We provide ongoing training opportunities
- And best of all Free Premium FACEIT user account
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Leadership
Niccolo Maisto
(CEO)Started their career as an investment banker at Nomura. Has an MBA from New York University.
Alessandro Avallone
(Chief Gaming Officer)#1 Italian Professional Gamer and World Champion with over 17 years of experience in the video-games industry.
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