Scorewarrior is a game developer and publisher based in Limassol, Cyprus. The company focuses on the 4X strategy genre, with an ambitious goal to grow its hit game, Total Battle , to become the No.1 strategy game in the world. Our team consists of 200+ passionate, talented, self-driven, and continually developing professionals who love making high-quality games. Our product: We are currently working on Total Battle — an MMO 4X strategy game with a deep political system and lots of player interaction. Players take on the role of a commander and need to develop their city, forge alliances, fight against monsters, and conquer other players. We're constantly developing new game mechanics, and the project is continuing to grow. We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join the Framework Team building tools used by fellow engineers and powering game services across the company. You will work with modern C++ (17/20) , asynchronous systems, network communications (S2S), high-load services, and distributed architectures.
What do we do:
- Design and developcore SDK/framework moduleswith clean abstractions to enable simple, fast, and high-quality game logic development.
- Gather requirements and designAPIs, protocols, and service-to-service interaction contracts.
- Buildasynchronous and multithreaded codewith high performance in mind.
- Work withS2S communications: idempotency, transactions, and guaranteed delivery in distributed systems.
- Design and evolveORM and data persistencelayers (PostgreSQL, Redis).
- Ensurescalability,stability, andfault toleranceof backend services.
- Work withlegacy code—simplify, refactor, and increase reliability without downtime or production risks.
- Implementobservability: metrics, logs, tracing.
- Improvedeveloper tools and DevEx— CMake, Conan, Python tooling, CI/CD scripts, Docker.
- Participate incode reviews, architectural discussions, mentoring, and R&D exploration.
What we expect:
- Ability togather requirements, design solutions, break down work, and deliver to productionindependently.
- 3+ yearsof backend development experience on a statically typed language under Linux.
- 3+ yearsof commercial experience withC++17/20.
- Strong knowledge ofasynchrony and multithreading(threads, futures, coroutines, atomics).
- Understanding ofnetwork communication(REST/RPC (gRPC), HTTP, WebSocket, TCP).
- Hands-on experience withPostgreSQL(DDL/DML, transactions, indexes, migrations).
- Solid software design skills:Software Design, SOLID, Clean Code, IoC/DI, composition, GoF patterns.
- Experience working withdistributed and high-load systems.
- Understanding ofSystem Design: scaling, degradation, caching, SLA/SLO/SLI.
- Experience withCI/CD, containers, and build systems(CMake, Docker, Jenkins/GitLab).
- Familiarity withtesting and performance tools(GTest, Valgrind, Perf, Sanitizers).
- English - B1 or higher, Russian - B2 or higher.
What we offer:
- The best team in the world!
- An excellent remuneration package, including a 13th salary.
- Relocation package for you and your family to Cyprus (Limassol).
- A modern and sunny office close to the sea.
- Private health insurance for you and your family members.
- A monthly pre-school, school, and university allowance for employees' children.
- Lunch compensation and a sports and fitness allowance.
- Personal development opportunities paid for by the company: professional and language courses, books, etc.
- Bonuses for outstanding results, years worked, getting married, and the birth of a child.
- Friendly monthly office parties and epic, annual offsite company birthday and Christmas parties.
