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Senior Software Engineer, Arcade (Backend)

Triumph · San Francisco HQ · On-site

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About Triumph

Premier consumer entertainment and commerce. Backed by General Catalyst.

About the role

Triumph Arcade is a mobile platform where players compete in skill-based games for cash and prizes: async tournaments, real-time 1v1 matches, streaks, leagues and daily challenges. Triumph earns a service fee on each competition. The backend decides who plays whom, scores every game, pays out winners and keeps play fair, across millions of games a week. You will work on: Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer (Go is nice)
  • 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 and contribute to your peers' success
  • A strong personal slope and desire to grow one's career
More about this role

The right candidate is passionate about building and has the ability and agency to drive projects to completion.

You should be excited by the prospect of owning a large part of our engineering system, and continuously looking for more responsibility to take on.

Being a backend engineer at Triumph is both demanding and rewarding, and your scope will cover (but not be limited to):

Building consumer facing features to help Triumph's core business metrics

Work closely with data team to solve difficult data driven problems, such as optimal matchmaking, anti-fraud, etc.

Help drive these complex solution into production

Iterating on engineering processes to allow the growing team to ship fast - eg. experimentation platforms, improving CI/CD

Above all, we hire people for their slope, who are willing to match the pace and energy of the growth curve of the company. While we ask a lot, we regularly double down on our top people.

Triumph Arcade is a mobile platform where players compete in skill-based games for cash and prizes: async tournaments, real-time 1v1 matches, streaks, leagues and daily challenges. Triumph earns a service fee on each competition.

The backend decides who plays whom,...

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