.net developer for mobile games

Sakura Games is a Cyprus-based game development outsourcing studio operating since 2018. It develops full-cycle mobile games, supports live titles, builds prototypes, and handles porting projects.

• Develop backend systems;
• Design microservice architecture;
• Ensure system stability and performance.

• Strong knowledge of C# and .NET;
• 5+ Years of commercial C#/.NET development experience with high-load online services;
• Expert-level asynchronous programming, multithreading, memory management, garbage collection, ASP.NET Core, and production profiling skills;
• Ability to make architectural decisions, identify root causes of complex issues, and review other developers’ code;
• In-depth knowledge of .NET 10, including performance, new features, CLR internals, async/await, and multithreading;
• Practical experience with Clean Architecture, DDD, SOLID, and other engineering best practices and patterns;
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining REST, gRPC, and WebSocket APIs;
• Experience with UDP and unsafe code;
• Experience designing distributed systems, including service and transaction boundaries, idempotency, eventual consistency, and partial failures;
• Proven experience scaling distributed systems under load from several thousand requests per second and tens of thousands of concurrent connections, with specific examples of identified and resolved bottlenecks;
• Ability to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks before they affect players;
• Experience building fault-tolerant systems, preventing cascading failures, and implementing controlled degradation under overload;
• Experience designing data schemas around real business processes and access patterns;
• Strong PostgreSQL or MS SQL Server skills, including query writing and optimization, indexing, execution plans, locking, and live database migrations under load;
• Experience with MongoDB or similar non-relational databases;
• Strong knowledge of Redis, including data structures, cache invalidation strategies, and distributed lock limitations;
• Experience with Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or similar event streaming and message broker technologies, including delivery guarantees, partitioning, duplicate handling, retries, and dead-letter queues;
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, including resource requests and limits, probes, HPA, StatefulSets, autoscaling, and cluster troubleshooting;
• Experience building and deploying containerized services with Docker;
• Strong working knowledge of at least one cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure;
• Experience independently building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or TeamCity, including build, test, and deployment stages;
• Practical observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, distributed tracing, and centralized logging, including production dashboards and alerts;
• Experience writing automated unit and integration tests;
• Strong experience with version control systems and code review practices;
• Nice to have: game backend development experience, real-time multiplayer systems under load, and experience integrating Epic Online Services, PlayFab, and platform stores.

• Part-time or full-time remote work;
• Salary in $;
• Zero bureaucracy, minimal micromanagement, and streamlined approvals;
• Small friendly agile teams;
• English lessons in groups of 3-4 participants.