At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming.
We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective
skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound
together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what
it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer 2 with a focus on Backend Systems
to join our team, bringing deep knowledge and experience of NodeJS, Production
Environments and engineering best practices to maintain uptime, diagnose and
remediate bad product behaviour and keep product dependencies up to date. This
position works closely with backend feature engineers and site reliability
engineers to improve processes, schedule and roll out improvements, and maintain
a backlog of work to complete.
This is a hybrid position based in our Downtown Vancouver office.
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In this role, you can expect to be involved in:
- Upgrade Backend technology to keep our product up to date with stable
releases of partner software including Node, NPM packages, Kubernetes, Mongo
and GCP features.
- Work with Production to identify the backlog and timeline of upgrades,
including urgent upgrades such as security patches.
- Be accountable in monitoring, analyzing and prioritizing performance concerns
such as memory usage and leaks, server crashes, hangs and pauses,
infrastructure cost and more.
- Drive and lead roll out and maintain software engineering best practices such
as zero error logging, unit tests, indexing, sharding and others.
- Lead troubleshooting efforts, identifying root causes and implementing
effective solutions.
- Identify and select appropriate technologies to ensure scalability,
performance, security, and maintainability. Will include sunsetting and
replacement.
- Lead meetings, discussions, and code reviews to ensure code quality.
- Promote documentation of software designs, code, and technical processes.
- Mentor and guide junior software engineers, sharing knowledge and providing
constructive feedback.
- As needed, participate in pager duty responsibilities and (roughly one week
every seven weeks) be incident commander for live incidents.
To be successful in this role, your background includes:
- Advanced working experience with Node.js [http://Node.js] - contributions to
the Node.js [http://Node.js] project ideal
- 7+ years of experience in software development, ideally in gaming
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Have maintained a live game in production using Node.js [http://Node.js]
using a Cloud provider
- Have maintained a live database such as Mongo.
- Ability to write clean, simple, well-documented code from design
requirements
- Proven track record of working independently and collaboratively in a dynamic
team setting
- Experience working in Agile, Kanban, or similar project management
methodologies
- Experience in Profiling Node
- Knowledge in how to deal with platform/device specific issues
- A problem-solver with a keen eye to identify areas of improvement
Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our
people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and
more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:
- Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits
cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services
such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy,
acupuncture, and much more.
- DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our
benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal
treatments and drugs.
- Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so
you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and
allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or
Personal Spending Account.
- RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for
their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days
with us.
- PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off,
paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis
management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for
emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
- Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare
providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your
home.
- Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and
professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an
education stipend.
- Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls
within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role
or level-up to a promotion.
- Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver,
Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the
rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s
South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our
people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
- Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer
to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group
volunteer days off-site!
- Hybrid Work: Kabammers typically spend at least two days per week in office.
We believe in blending in-office collaboration with the freedom of remote
work, and want everyone to have flexibility while fostering strong
connections.
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$145,280 - $170,000 a year
The typical hiring range listed above is specific to candidates located in
Vancouver. The salary will be determined based on your knowledge, skills and
competencies, and you’ll have room to grow after you join!
If you’re interested in the position but your expectations don’t fully align
with the provided range, we still encourage you to apply! Considerations may be
made based on your experience level.
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Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and
inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the
listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit
for this or other positions.
We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can
create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social
multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology,
and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.
Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions
[https://www.playcontestofchampions.com/], Shop Titans
[https://playshoptitans.com/], and more have generated hundreds of millions of
downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice
and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and
Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and
in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a
diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and
potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications
and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex
(including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation,
political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition,
genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status,
prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with
federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will
be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the
selection process.
