As our first Backend Engineer you will join our fully remote core team to work on Moonfrost, an ambitious cross platform multiplayer life-sim RPG that aims to combine the best parts of Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing and Zelda: BoTW. You will be working closely with our production team to design and implement online services that are light, responsive and scalable. Allowing us to deploy Moonfrost and its business model from MVP to live ops.

Requisitos mínimos

- 3+ years of experience in the game industry
- Wide understanding of cloud infrastructure and software architecture
- You can design, develop, test and provide support to resilient API endpoints
- Be friendly, positive and highly autonomous, you work well in small teams
- Fluent in English (you will speak English every day)
- Computer Science Degree

Requisitos deseados

Depending on your experience and personal interests:

- Experience with Unity & C#
- Good knowledge of Typescript, React
- Experience with netcode for multiplayer games (client & server)
- Experience developing secure online services, understanding of cryptography
- Devops experience, productivity tools, CI/CD, Git, Asset Servers

Responsabilidades

- Create and maintain the backend of our game Moonfrost
- Develop and supports APIs & online services allowing online multiplayer
- Responsible for the infrastructure cost, ping by region and server uptime

Beneficios

- The team is currently 15 people: 2 in France, 2 in Spain, 1 in Turkey and the rest in England.
- Full-time, permanent, remote working.
- Time Zone between GMT and GMT+7.

About Oxalis:

Oxalis Games was founded in 2021, it is a fully remote independent game studio focused on building cozy and wholesome pixel art simulation games. We are working on an ambitious social-simulation RPG that could be described as a bigger, better, spiritual successor to Stardew Valley. We have backing from Supercell, Sir Ian Livingstone, Phil Mansell (Jagex CEO) and other investors.

Founded by Ric Moore and Gina Nelson. Ric is a BAFTA winning game developer who has been running games studios for over a decade. He co-founded Bossa Studios and The Secret Police and is perhaps best known for having made the mobile version of Stardew Valley which has been a mega-hit on all platforms.

Find more about the game we are making: https://moonfrost.io/