Backend Engineer

Job Description

Backend Engineer (F/M/NB)

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft's 20,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players' lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.

Ubisoft Bordeaux

Founded in September 2017, Ubisoft Bordeaux works with passion on the biggest AAAA's game in order to offer the best gaming experiences to our players. Today, the studio has more than 400 talents, from 20 different nationalities, who work on licenses such as Assassin's Creed, Beyond Good & Evil 2, plus other unannounced free-to-play games. We are also working on exciting technologies with the Anvil team, Online services teams and with La Forge who seek to validate the value of technological innovations.

Here is an opportunity to join a stimulating, international, ambitious but friendly studio and work in our new Game Streaming team with our partner.

Job Description

As a Backend Engineer of the New Experiences team, you will be contributing to the development and the maintenance of our game streaming and media interaction platforms for our internal and player facing applications. You will participate in the development of different streaming infrastructure and application services according to the needs of the team, working side by side with Product and UX in a fast and creative atmosphere.
Our team members are self-sufficient and have a problem-solving mindset. We are looking for people who are passionate about gaming and who are always one step ahead in development platforms, new functionality, and APIs.

We expect the candidate to be curious, open-minded, polyvalent, and comfortable exploring new architectures and solutions to deliver a brand-new platform.

Responsabilities
• Work closely with teammates to design and build highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications using Ubisoft-recommended practices and tools
• Contribute to development of our cloud components
• Contribute to the architecture of the solutions delivered by the team
• Manage individual priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization to execution and delivery to solve complex engineering problems.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
• BA/BS in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 3 years of relevant work experience
• Experience with software development with one or more general programming languages (e.g. Go, TypeScript, Java, C/C++, C#, or Python – our team currently actively uses Go and TypeScript)

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with one or more of the following areas: Server Backend Distributed and Parallel Systems, Full Stack Development (front end and backend), Scalable Enterprise Platforms and Applications
• Development experience with various Cloud Solution Providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Ability to learn other coding languages as needed and contribute to the APIs integration on the client side
• Demonstrated ability to share knowledge via formal mentoring, reviewing code, reviewing design documents, providing technical talks, teaching classes, or as a consultant on projects
• Knowledge of infra automation, CI/CD, and cloud-based delivery models

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rn1m21-3-129-23-30-42 in your application.