31st Union

Engineer

• Lead and manage backend engineers across US and EU studios
• Own the architecture of studio-hosted services and infrastructure, including service boundaries, data models, APIs, and deployment topology
• Write and review technical designs and backend implementations for new services and game features
• Plan backend work, maintain the backlog, estimate work, and set sprint priorities
• Set engineering standards for code review, testing, documentation, and on-call readiness
• Align backend roadmaps with studio release schedules
• Diagnose, fix, and deploy backend hotfixes
• Maintain continuous integration pipelines and deployment automation
• Own monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and incident reporting
• Run the backend on-call rotation and respond to backend incidents
• Load test services, fix performance bottlenecks, and optimize service costs
• Implement and test failover and disaster recovery
• Integrate proprietary studio services with 2K and external platform services
• Debug cross-service issues with external engineering partners
• Report to the Director - Online Services

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