Game Server Programmer
Keywords Studios2 months ago
Tokyo, JapanMid Level
Responsibilities
- Implement multiplayer, real-time networking, and networked game features.
- Create and deploy game server builds for Unreal Engine or proprietary game engines.
- Develop lobby, matchmaking, ranking, and other peripheral server-side systems.
- Analyze network traffic and debug, optimize, and improve low-level network and game-engine systems.
- Design, test, document, and maintain clean, performant code.
- Review code, mentor engineers, and uphold software engineering best practices.
- Own large and mission-critical areas of the codebase and determine feature feasibility.
- Estimate tasks, coordinate with engineering and non-engineering teams, and deliver features on time.
Requirements
- A university degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or relevant professional experience.
- For Japan-based candidates, at least 3 years of professional software engineering experience and 2 years of professional game-server development experience.
- Strong C++ and C# experience and good experience with programming languages used for peripheral server-side systems.
- Experience with multiplayer integration, game-server creation and deployment, networking, network protocols, and lobby or matchmaking systems.
- Strong debugging, optimization, performance-analysis, software design, architecture, and communication skills.
- Conversational Japanese proficiency at JLPT N3 or above and English proficiency sufficient for technical reading, writing, and discussion.
- Comfort with source code management systems such as Git, SVN, or Perforce.
- Preferred experience with Go, Java, Bash, PowerShell, other game engines, at least three years in the video game industry, and at least one released game.
Benefits
- Permanent full-time employment with a six-month probation period.
- Flexible remote work while residing in Japan, with core hours from 11:00 to 16:00 and office access in Tokyo; onsite work may occasionally be required for specialized equipment.
- Legal support for visa applications and possible permission to work outside Japan during the probation period depending on circumstances.
- Monthly home-office equipment and supplies allowance of 15,000 JPY, private Japanese or English tutoring, and commute-fee coverage.
- Weekends and national holidays, summer/winter vacation, annual paid leave, bereavement leave, sick leave, social insurance, and parental leave, with some leave benefits applicable after probation.
- Annual performance and contribution reviews, access to digital learning materials, and manager-supported training curriculum.