Senior Real-time Game Backend Engineer

We are hiring for an international Gaming technology company developing real-time gaming platforms and in-house game systems.
Position: Senior Real-Time Game Backend Engineer
Location: Taipei, Taiwan / Remote (Malaysia & Europe)
Work Arrangement: Onsite in Taipei or Remote depending on location
Language: Fluent English and Mandarin
Key Responsibilities
Design and develop real-time, stateful backend systems for online games.
Build and maintain Game Manager systems responsible for game rounds, state transitions, game results, and session/table states.
Develop event-driven services handling real-time game events and streaming data.
Ensure transaction integrity, result consistency, auditability, and high availability.
Design systems that can safely handle concurrent events, failures, retries, and unexpected production scenarios.
Troubleshoot complex production issues and contribute to system architecture and technical improvements.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in real-time backend development, online game servers, or similar systems.
Strong experience with stateful and event-driven architectures.
Experience building high-availability backend systems.
Hands-on experience with REST APIs and/or WebSocket.
Strong experience in at least one of Java/Kotlin/Go
Experience with PostgreSQL and/or Redis.
Strong understanding of backend architecture, concurrency, distributed systems, and system reliability.
Nice to Have
Experience in a real-time gaming systems.
Experience handling real-time production incidents and complex distributed-system failures.

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