Senior Backend C++ Developer (Relocation to Cyprus)

Scorewarrior

Backend C++ Developer

• for our Core Team to work on key game project functionalities.
• We strive for simplicity, scalability, maintainability, and excellent quality in our solutions.
• Our team's main goal and challenge is to deliver outstanding technical design while ensuring quality, flexibility, and ease of development for game features.
• Tasks to be solved
• Designing and developing the Core backend component and creating user-friendly APIs with Doxygen descriptions.
• Refactoring and isolating existing modules and eliminating technical debt.
• Preparing and reviewing ADRs/RFCs, formulating architectural solutions within your team/service, and presenting them to the architectural board for discussion.
• Conducting code reviews and design reviews of game mechanics.
• Maintaining high quality by writing unit and integration tests, implementing metrics, and profiling code.
• Planning, decomposing, and delegating sub-tasks and evaluating the results thereof.
• Developing tools and scripts for automating internal development processes.
• To succeed, you will need
• 6+ years of commercial development, including 3+ years in С++ backend.
• C++ 17/20: STL, templates (concepts).
• The ability to participate in creating or reviewing architectural documentation (ADRs/RFCs).
• Practical experience in software design: SOLID, YAGNI/KISS/DRY, patterns.
• Knowledge of Service-Oriented/Action(Command)-based approaches.
• Networking & Concurrency: TCP/HTTP, RPC (gRPC/protobuf), thread-pools, and an understanding of async/await.
• Observability: Prometheus/InfluxDB, Grafana, or analogs.
• The following would be to your advantage
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, C#, or Python.
• Gamedev experience.
• Experience in designing large-scale modules / components / services.
• What we offer
• **A Great Place to Work.**
• 99% employee satisfaction, low turnover, and colleagues who genuinely enjoy collaborating.
• **Live and work in sunny Cyprus.**
• We’re an office-first team in Limassol with a modern seaside workspace, and full relocation and visa support for you and your family.
• **Shape a global hit.**
• We’re the only European studio with a 4X strategy title in the world’s top-10.
• Our top-50 mobile game has grown 25x in revenue and audience in the last five years.
• **Grow fast in a company that’s already strong.**
• We’re independent, financially rock-solid, and expanding at startup speed, and we have never had lay offs.
• **Work where ideas win.**
• Flat structure, collective decision-making, and honest feedback create full transparency and help you grow fast.
• **Earn industry-leading rewards.**
• High salaries, a 13th month, performance bonuses, and extra rewards for long service, marriage, or welcoming a child, and lunch every day.
• **Feel supported at every stage of life.**
• Private family health insurance, plus a monthly allowance for children’s pre-school, school, and university education.
• **Your growth is our priority.**
• From specialized training and certifications to language courses and books, you’ll have everything you need to keep learning.