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About the Role
The backend engineer will own a significant part of the engineering system, driving projects to completion and continuously seeking more responsibility. This role is demanding yet rewarding, focusing on building consumer-facing features, solving complex data-driven problems, and iterating on engineering processes to enhance team velocity.
Responsibilities
- Build consumer-facing features to help Triumph's core business metrics.
- Work closely with the data team to solve difficult data-driven problems, such as optimal matchmaking and anti-fraud.
- Drive complex solutions into production.
- Iterate on engineering processes to enable the growing team to ship fast, including experimentation platforms and improving CI/CD.
- Build and evolve game modes and tournaments (async tournaments, blitz, streaks, leagues, challenges, and new formats).
- Develop matchmaking systems to pair players by skill for fast and fair matches.
- Own real-time multiplayer matches end-to-end, including game server deployment, low-latency player connections, and result settlement.
- Build the personalization engine for rewards and offers to provide players with the right incentives at the right time.
- Collaborate with fraud and payments teams to detect collusion, score tampering, and multi-accounting.
- Build and improve backend scalability to support significant company growth.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer.
- Experience with storage systems (e.g., databases, object stores, or distributed file systems).
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across work streams within your team.
- Ability to contribute to peers' success.
- A strong personal slope and desire to grow one's career.
Skills
- Backend engineering
- Go (nice to have)
- Storage systems
- Databases
- Object stores
- Distributed file systems
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Production deployment
- CI/CD
- Personalization engines
- Scalability
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Benefits
- $400/mo lunch credit
- Healthcare
- Vision
- Dental
- 401k
About the Company
- Triumph Arcade is a mobile platform where players compete in skill-based games for cash and prizes.
- The backend system manages matchmaking, scoring, payouts, and fairness across millions of games weekly.
- Triumph offers a high-growth environment building a large-scale consumer platform touching gaming, finance, and social sectors.
- The company provides autonomy to set web direction and a small, high-impact, rapidly growing engineering team with significant leadership and growth opportunities.
- The team is passionate, proud of their work, and maintains high velocity.