Staff Backend Engineer
About Battle Creek Games
Battle Creek Games is a remote, mobile gaming studio behind some of the most-played racing and hunting titles in the U.S., including No Limit 2, Offroad Outlaws, and American Marksman, reaching millions of players worldwide. If you’re excited about contributing to our titles, we’d love to hear from you.
Role Overview
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and scaling the robust backend infrastructure that powers our live-operated titles. You’ll work alongside Unity gameplay engineers, data scientists, game designers, and cross-functional teams to ensure our backend systems are secure, scalable, and performant. Your expertise will drive critical features, including multiplayer functionality, real-time analytics, and seamless server integration, all tightly coupled with Unity-based game clients, to support the dynamic demands of modern mobile gaming.
What You'll Do
System Architecture & Design:
Architect and implement microservices, APIs, and scalable server infrastructures supporting millions of concurrent users.
Design for high availability, fault tolerance, and low latency.
Development & Optimization:
Write clean, efficient, and secure code (primarily C# and Go, plus Java or similar).
Optimize performance, conduct rigorous testing, and implement monitoring/logging.
Cloud Integration & Scalability:
Leverage AWS, GCP, or Azure for scalable deployments.
Develop auto-scaling, load-balancing, and disaster-recovery strategies.
Collaboration & Mentorship:
Partner with designers and engineers to integrate gameplay features (events, leaderboards, live-ops) with backend services.
Mentor junior engineers, review code, and champion best practices.
Security & Data Integrity:
Implement robust security measures to protect player data.
Ensure data consistency across distributed systems using SQL and NoSQL solutions.
Continuous Improvement:
Stay current with industry trends.
Lead post-mortems and implement preventative improvements.
What You'll Need
7+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including shipping at least one Unity-powered game or live-ops feature.
Deep proficiency in C#, Go, or other server-side languages (e.g. Java, Python, Django).
Hands-on experience creating or integrating client–server gameplay features in Unity, including authentication, matchmaking, real-time multiplayer, or cloud-saved data.
Demonstrated expertise with cloud services (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and microservices architecture.
Strong background in database design and management (SQL & NoSQL) and real-time data processing.
Proven track record of performance optimization, debugging, and security best practices.
Excellent communication and teamwork skills; experience mentoring and leading engineering teams.
Nice to Have
Experience with analytics pipelines, live-ops tooling, or authoritative server architecture for mobile games.
Why Join Battle Creek Games?
Remote by Design: We’re a fully remote team with processes and tools intentionally built for effective, distributed collaboration.
Collaborative Culture: Enjoy a supportive environment where cross-team collaboration and rapid iteration are highly valued.
Impactful Contribution: Play a hands-on role in advancing our most popular titles.
Professional Growth: Expand your skills by working alongside experienced teammates hailing from EA, Small Giant Games, Rovio, and Pocket Gems.
Competitive Benefits & Pay: Compensation is at or above the 75th percentile for the gaming industry, most health plans are fully covered or low-cost, and we offer unlimited PTO to support long-term, sustainable careers.
Ready to Accelerate Your Career?
If you’re excited about creating top-tier racing experiences for millions of players, and you thrive in a dynamic, collaborative setting, send us your resume, portfolio (if available), and a brief introduction to your background. Join us and help take our multiple titles to the next level!
At Battle Creek Games, we believe our strength comes from the diversity of our players and our team. We’re committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or background can do their best work.
We welcome candidates from all walks of life and encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t line up perfectly with every qualification listed. What matters most to us is passion, creativity, and a drive to help us build games that millions of players love.
Battle Creek Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.