Develop and maintain backend systems of Virtual Regatta games.

With a >50% annual growth over 2017-2020, the group is strongly growing on the bridge game market, and wishes to develop its presence on other games.
Virtual Regatta, the e-sailing worldwide leader, is a 52 Entertainment company, with the ambition to become the most famous and played game for boat and regatta lovers.
We’re looking for an ambitious and energetic engineer with a passion in the digital entertainment, (e-)sailing and engineering & development of complex and versatile backend systems.
Virtual Regatta is in the process of restructuring the whole backend with new gaming-standard technologies and best-practices, to allow for future developments and ambitions of the game. We need help from great engineers to join the journey.
If you love to code, video games, you’re looking for a position to develop your career and learn a lot, and you are looking to join the gaming industry, this job is for you !

Responsibilities
• Develop new features for VRO and VRI games
• Fix bugs and optimize code
• Maintain the existing system : game engine, game services, admin screens…
• Occasionally work on the backends refont
• Manage the team and the product
• If possible and if wanted, can work on the Unity client

Qualifications, qualities and skills
• A NodeJS developer who is not afraid by legacy
• Knowledges in TypeScript is required
• Has already used cloud services and serverless (AWS in preference)
• Experienced as web developer (especially with component-based framework or React) is a huge advantage
• A Virtual Regatta gamer / experienced with sailing is a huge advantage
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• A strong desire to improve
• At least 2 years of experiences