Develop tools for consumer game production, including launchers, data-entry utilities, Unreal Engine editor extensions, converters and checkers, while supporting middleware and OSS adoption.
About this role
The server-side engineer designs, develops, tests, and operates web services and social games. Responsibilities include building development environments, including servers and databases, creating mockups, programming, unit testing, and version control. The role also improves program performance by reducing operational load.
Required qualifications are practical experience with server programming and the knowledge or experience to carry out the full process from environment construction through programming and testing.
Preferred experience includes game development and operation in a LAMP environment; development, operation, and release work for high-load services; development of websites for smartphones; and development using shell scripts, Python, Ruby, or Node.js. Experience designing or implementing server-side data communication and asynchronous communication, and designing, building, or operating databases such as MySQL.
Additional preferred skills include development and operations using cloud services such as AWS or GCP; knowledge or experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes; load testing and performance measurement with tools such as JMeter; English sufficient for daily conversation and understanding technical documents; experience designing, developing, or building authentication and authorization platforms such as OAuth and JWT; and experience using generative AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT for development or work.
The role supports game and web-service products. Ideal applicants are people who enjoy games, can propose and define specifications, consider the user perspective, complete work responsibly, contribute effectively in team development, proactively identify tasks, and maintain curiosity and willingness to learn.
This is a full-time position. The work locations are in Shibuya and Meguro, Tokyo. The offices are generally non-smoking indoors, with dedicated heated-tobacco smoking rooms. Side jobs are prohibited.
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