Backend Programmer
Copenhagen, Denmark
Ghost Ship Games
Basic relocation package
About Ghost Ship Games
This vacancy is provided by Copenhagen Capacity.
Ghost Ship Games is a Danish game development studio, founded in the spring of 2016 by a group of veteran game developers. In less than four years, we have turned Ghost Ship Games into a profitable game studio, able to compete with other mid-size game studios on Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Position
Ghost Ship Games is looking for an experienced Back End Programmer with a broad range of skills within areas of network, cloud, analytics and web services. You will be part of our code team and your job will be to design, implement and maintain back-end services, integrate with numerous external APIs, from first parties to infrastructure providers.
At Ghost Ship Games, we foster openness through regular discussions of ideas. This includes collaborating with the game community, and we strive for open development. It correlates with our ways of communication: we have daily stand up meetings before lunch, and we also offer monthly 1-to-1 meetings with your lead to discuss your work and other important matters.
Join our startup game studio heading out for new and exciting adventures on the high seas of hope. You will work on Deep Rock Galactic, one of the most successful games on Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview. These achievements are thanks to our entire team, which we hope you want to join!
Your qualification
- 4+ years of experience in the industry
- Superb coding skills
- Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent qualifications
- Experience with networking systems and their components including DNS, NAT, firewalls, security methods, peer-to-peer and client-server models
- Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or other cloud solutions
- Experience with database technologies like SQL, MongoDB, or similar
- Experience with building and deploying webservices
Will be a plus
- You love shooters and co-op games
- Experience with developing a game alongside a passionate community
- Experience with data analytics and data aggregation tools and capable of solving aggregation issues, particularly Google Analytics and Data Studio
- Experience with online game service APIs, particularly Steamworks, Xbox Live or Sony NP
- Experience with Golang
- Experience with Unreal Engine 4 and Perforce
- Not prone to seasickness :-)
What we offer
- Pension scheme
- Health insurance
- 6 weeks of vacation
- Paid parental leave
- Free lunch
- Flexible work hours
Additional details
Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by Copenhagen Capacity.