Develop and maintain backend systems of Virtual Regatta 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
• Write from scratch game servers, game services and game admin dashboards.
• Maintain the existing system
• Manage the team and the product
• Presides over weekly meetings (present work of the backend team)
• If possible and if wanted, can work on the Unity client

Qualifications, qualities and skills

• A C# (C-sharp) developer who want to join a new team in the gaming industry
• Knowledges in NodeJS / JavaScript / TypeScript is required
• Strong knowledges in code best-practices, clean-code architecture, tests and CI/CD
• Already worked on a SOA, micro-services, modular monolith or distributed system is required
• Has experiences with Microsoft Orleans and ASP.Net is necessary
• Experienced as web developer (especially with component-based framework or with Blazor/Razor) is a huge advantage
• Experienced as dev-ops or know Kubernetes / Terraform is an advantage
• Has already used cloud services and serverless (AWS in preference)
• A Virtual Regatta gamer / experienced with sailing is a huge advantage
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• A strong desire to improve