Software Engineer Intern - Backend

We are a young startup on a mission to bring kickass cloud services to mobile game developers around the world. Some call us the indie-friendly backend for mobile multiplayer games. We are always looking for open-minded people who'd like to join our crazy journey. If none of the job postings suite you, feel free to get in touch anyway.

As an intern you'll be working directly with the founding team on our product's backend system which is the main driver for our success. You’ll receive technical mentorship by our CEO and become an equal member of the engineering team. Throughout your internship you'll have the opportunity to shape our product and leave a mark in an exciting industry.

Responsibilities

Build stand-alone, reliable backend services

Improve backend scalability and maintainability

Experiment and iterate on architectural changes through component and performance testing

Take ownership of projects from design to implementation and deployment (and beyond)

Contribute directly to our product and the way our early customers use it

Requirements

Show us what you did before and why you are the backend intern!

Very good knowledge of server architecture and scalability designs

Experience with Erlang/OTP and/or Golang is a big plus

Ability to work both independently and in collaboration with the founding team

A sense of urgency and ownership over the product

Great attitude towards work and people

Intellectually curious, passionate, and inventive

Focus on quality and simplicity

Motivated to solve problems in unique and innovative ways

Desire to make things, and an understanding of developer usability and long-term maintainability

Technologies we use

If any of the following technologies makes you want to create awesome things, you should talk to us.

Erlang/OTP

Golang

Lua / LuaJIT

C / C++ / C#

Nginx

Cowboy

Nixos

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

Redis

AWS

Linode

Google Cloud Platform

Catch

Apache Mesos

Marathon

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