About the 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.
What You'll Work On (Arcade)
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:
- Game modes and tournaments. Build and evolve async tournaments, blitz, streaks, leagues, challenges and new formats to engage in skill based games.
- Matchmaking. Pair players by skill so matches are fast and fair, even in small pools.
- Real-time multiplayer. Own live matches end to end: spin up game servers, connect players with low latency, and settle results.
- Rewards and offers. Build the personalization engine that gives each player the right reward or offer at the right time.
- Integrity. Work with fraud and payments to detect collusion, score tampering and multi-accounting.
- Scalability. Build and improve backend scalability to support the next 10x of growth.
Qualifications
- 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
Why Triumph?
- High growth. Build a high-scale consumer platform that touches gaming, finance, and social with the autonomy to set our web direction.
- High agency. Small, high-impact engineering team that is growing rapidly with significant opportunity for leadership and growth.
- High energy. Passionate team who are proud of our work and velocity.
- Competitive salary and benefits. $400/mo lunch credit, healthcare, vision, dental, 401k, etc.
Our team gathers 5 days a week at Triumph’s headquarters in San Francisco.