Intermediate Software Engineer
About The Position
Big Viking Games is hiring an Intermediate Software Engineer to build and maintain YoWorld and Fish World, our long-running live-service virtual worlds. As an Intermediate Software Engineer on these projects, you'll work primarily on the front end utilizing both a TypeScript and HTML5 game client and occasionally work on a PHP backend — shipping features and fixes to a live player base on a weekly cadence. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you'll work alongside a senior team on a mature, large-scale codebase where your work goes live in front of players quickly. We operate in an AI-forward environment focused on scaling output, so you're someone who's comfortable reaching for modern AI tooling to move faster without cutting corners on quality.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software development experience.
- A track record of shipping multiple features in a live production environment.
- Solid command of at least one of Java, TypeScript, or PHP, and the ability to work across all three.
- Comfort writing efficient SQL and reasoning about caching and data-store trade-offs.
- A sound understanding of algorithmic complexity, general system architecture, and source control.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering is strongly preferred.
Nice To Haves
- HTMX experience.
- ActionScript and flash experience.
- PHP experience.
- Strong SQL/MariaDB experience
- Experience with Redis, Memcached
- Experience with Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Comfort working in large, long-lived codebases and improving them incrementally.
- Comfort using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude) in a real workflow.
- Free-to-play or live-service game development experience.
Responsibilities
- Write robust, efficient, and maintainable code across our stack — TypeScript, HTML5, Javascript, and PHP.
- Build and maintain tools and client features in JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Work with network code — sockets and REST APIs — and asynchronous, real-time systems.
- Review code and give constructive feedback to other developers.
- Use performance profilers (memory analyzers, CPU profilers, network sniffers) to diagnose and improve existing code.
- Investigate and resolve difficult bugs in production.
- Work within our CI/CD workflow (GitHub Actions, Docker) following modern best practices.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, and vision) including HSA/WSA spending account from Day One
- Participation in the Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)
- RRSP participation and matching
- 15 Vacation Days + 10 Wellness Days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
