ESL Gaming Online, Inc Backend Software Engineer

via

Headquarters: Cologne, Germany
URL: https://www.eslgaming.com/

At ESL our mission is to create a world where everybody can be somebody. As a Backend Software Engineer at ESL you will be a leading member in the development of one of our user-centric esports properties such as our premier esports tournament platform ESL Play or yet to be announced projects.

As a leading member of your team, you will be relied on for your expertise in backend development to make smart decisions how our backend services are engineered, implement best practices and assist other team members.

Your Future Tasks:

Building & improving our core backend services and software architecture
Giving feedback & estimating upcoming work
Planning work with your team
Communicating with product owners & other teams
Writing & updating tests
Documentation in our documentation tool (Confluence)
Issues kept up to date & work logged in our issue tracker (JIRA)

Your profile

Must-haves:

2+ years of experience in software engineering
Experience architecting software, in particular microservices written in Scala

Nice to have:

Any strong & statically typed languages other than Scala
University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar
Effective communication skills with different stakeholders
Experience with any of the following:
- Developing in Scala or any JVM language
- Orchestration with Mesos & Marathon, Docker, Kubernetes
- Databases such as PostgreSQL, Cassandara
- Kafka, Akka Streams
- Finch, Finagle (twitter stack)
- Cloud providers, in particular AWS
Experience playing online games or knowledge of esports