This role focuses on building and maintaining a robust Back End for a global gaming platform that integrates with multiple third-party services. The engineer will work across REST APIs, secure authentication flows, event feeds, and a scalable data pipeline to support users worldwide with high reliability and performance.
Technical requirements:
Strong experience with Node.js or TypeScript
Building and consuming REST APIs
Implementing OAuth2 and OIDC for secure authentication
Handling webhooks and event feeds (eg, Twitch EventSub, FACEIT callbacks)
PostgreSQL for data storage and data-model design
Redis for caching, reliability, and retry logic
Simple queueing for background tasks and failure retries
Rate-limit handling and backoff strategies
Cloud deployment experience with strong security hygiene, configuration management, and secrets handling
Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability tools
The ideal candidate values reliability, secure coding practices, graceful failure, and clean software architecture suitable for a globally distributed gaming audience.
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