Programmeur.se backend senior / Senior Backend Programmer

Overview Join Bethesda Game Studios, the award‑winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls, and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well‑balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America's best cities. With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels, and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we'd love to hear from you. Responsibilities

Help architect, build, and maintain cloud‑based microservice systems primarily in Golang and C++ to support Bethesda Game Studios games. This will include both services for the games and services to support development of the games. Code review and mentor more junior team members. Plan, organize, and control multiple responsibilities to achieve project objectives. Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to processes and tools. Lead and participate in team or customer meetings as necessary.

Qualifications

Previous experience building and architecting microservice‑based distributed applications for deployment to a cloud environment. B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience. 10+ years experience in object‑oriented and asynchronous programming in multiple languages (polyglot), preferably C++, Golang, Python, and C# (Java acceptable substitute for Golang or Python if you have C++). 5+ years building microservices in the cloud using HTTP protocols, message brokers, caching, and database systems to support a microservice‑based architecture. 5+ years architecting scalable database solutions to work with microservice architecture (relational and/or NoSQL). Responsibility for coding and/or reviewing code for most of the skills listed in the "What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L." section. Significant experience working in a Linux‑based environment including basic system administration and performance management. Familiarity with front‑end frameworks like React or similar. Familiarity with Cloud Architecture in AWS and Azure, containerization systems, and DevOps principles. Previous on‑call experience where you can identify root causes of issues and fix most issues independently.

Preferred Skills

Solid Computer Science fundamentals, including design patterns, algorithms and algorithmic complexity, memory management, state/object management, compilation, execution, and asynchronous processing and how all these apply to the language you are working with. Solid understanding of object‑oriented principles, including application of composition vs inheritance as well as SOLID principles as it applies to the language you are working with. Expertise in async programming principles and networked applications. Strong C++ fundamentals. Solid Golang or Java fundamentals. Proficiency with Python or C#. Proficiency in how to build multi‑layered microservice architecture at enterprise scale. Proficiency in message broker and caching system and how to use them to further scale over a microservice architecture. Knowledge of where horizontal scale in cloud architecture fails. Knowledge of cost implications of different architectures. Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Familiarity with services and technologies available in Azure and AWS you can build upon. Ability to develop towards Azure using a multi‑cloud framework while managing capacity issues and fallback to AWS. Ability to develop towards hybrid data center and cloud platforms. Expertise in strengths and weaknesses of solutions offered by each cloud provider. Database knowledge of basics for different database types (MySQL and variants and Mongo and variants) to the degree you can optimize and tune from the developer perspective. Knowledge of database schema and scaling methodologies to further optimization and scale. Proficiency in database query languages. Ability to diagnose performance and connectivity Linux and Windows related issues. Understanding of application‑side security best practices for multi‑layered micro‑services environment. Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Git, Perforce, and Team City. Expertise in branch management. Experience with open‑source frameworks, operating systems, and containerization technologies like Docker, ECS, AKS, and Kubernetes. Expertise in application and API testing methodologies and best practices. Expertise in automated testing. Bonus: Educational background in Mathematics and/or Statistics. Bonus: Cloud or Security certifications. Bonus: C++ development experience in systems or gameplay. •