Lead Backend Engineer

Eleventh Hour Games•Dallas, TX

7d•Remote

About The Position

As the Lead Backend Engineer at Eleventh Hour Games, you will guide the technology, processes, and people behind the online services that power Last Epoch. You will serve as the primary voice for backend technology across the studio, ensuring uptime, scalability, and alignment with game and business needs. You will lead by example, driving execution, improving systems, and growing the engineers around you.

Requirements

5+ years building and supporting online services; 2+ years in a game studio preferred
Hands-on experience with cloud providers (Azure strongly preferred).
Strong command of C# or similar back-end language
Experience shipping or supporting a live service with a regular release cadence
Strong communication skills and autonomy in a remote environment
Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, anticipate problems, and raise technical standards

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with multiplayer online games and ARPGs in particular
Experience with Unity
Experience supporting console platforms and multi-platform patching/hotfix workflows
Experience with large-scale monitoring, alerting, or incident response tooling
Prior people-leadership or mentorship experience

Responsibilities

Shape long-term goals, strategy, and the technical roadmap for the backend department
Own integration and operational management of partners such as Nitrado, Sendbird, Azure/Cosmos, PlayFab, and others
Maintain uptime, reliability, and performance targets through monitoring, alerting, communication, delegation, and structured maintenance
Ensure backend scalability to support projected CCU thresholds, collaborating closely with backend ICs
Diagnose and lead resolution of complex service, infrastructure, and live-ops issues
Serve as the authoritative source of truth for backend technology capabilities, limitations, risks, and opportunities
Review major technical designs, architecture proposals, and any game dev features with backend impact
Ensure releases launch on time, with stability and minimal hotfix needs
Contribute high-quality code and elevate engineering standards across the team
Surface and resolve critical bugs quickly; guide the team through the hardest debugging challenges
Lead backend engineers through 1:1s, coaching, performance management, and hiring
Improve processes: sprint execution, feature crew coordination, documentation quality, checklists, quality gates, and cross-team dependency management

Benefits

Flexible fully remote working arrangements
US Employees 90% premium paid for employee, 100% premium paid for dependents health insurance
US Employees 30% paid premium on Dental and Vision plans
35 Paid time off days, received at start of the year
401K for U.S. based employees

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