Senior Backend Programmer

Are you ready to dive into the world of cutting-edge video game development? Headquartered in Montreal, Behaviour Interactive is at the forefront of the gaming industry, crafting unforgettable experiences across PC, console, and mobile platforms. We’re a dynamic, independent studio of over 1200 passionate employees, with studios in Toronto (Behaviour Toronto), Rotterdam (Behaviour Rotterdam) and in the UK (Behaviour UK–North & South). Our day to day revolves around two core business focuses: Services and Original Games. Our Services team collaborates with gaming and entertainment giants like Disney, Sony, Activision, and Nintendo, delivering exceptional work-for-hire development and pioneering immersive location-based entertainment (LBE). Meanwhile, our Original Games unit pushes our creative limits, with our signature IPs, including the iconic Dead by Daylight. Join us and be a part of the future of interactive entertainment!

At Behaviour Interactive, we believe in giving everyone a fair shot. We embrace a diverse and creative environment where everyone is celebrated. We value folks of all ages, sex, ethnicity, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, civil status, disability, or any other protected characteristics as per applicable law.

Make your mark on a live game enjoyed by players worldwide, join Behaviour Interactive as a Senior Backend Programmer.

Are you ready to take on new technical challenges within a passionate and collaborative team? Behaviour Interactive is looking for an experienced backend programmer to join the team and contribute to the development of a live online game, co-developed with an external partner and released on PC and consoles.

In this senior role, you’ll bring your expertise and rigor to the programming team. You’ll be responsible for implementing backend services and building the game-side APIs that communicate with those services. This position requires solid experience with cloud technologies and DevOps principles.

In this role you will:

• Design and deliver backend services. Architect and code cloud-based, microservice-oriented backend systems primarily in C++ and Golang, ensuring they are fast, reliable, and can scale globally.
• Build & maintain APIs Develop, document, and optimize efficient APIs that connect backend services to client-side game features.
• Fix bugs and improve quality. Investigate and resolve bugs, from simple fixes to complex and hard-to-reproduce issues, including on-call support when needed.
• Mentor and collaborate. Conduct code reviews, guide junior developers, and work closely with game teams, tech leads, and stakeholders across disciplines to deliver features and improvements.

What we're looking for:

• This is a senior role. You have 10+ years of experience in object-oriented and asynchronous programming in multiple languages with a focus on C++, Golang, Python, and C#.
• Proven track record building and architecting distributed, cloud-based microservices.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing principles, with hands-on experience in AWS and Azure, as well as associated DevOps practices (CI/CD, Git, Jenkins, branch management).
• Solid experience designing and optimizing scalable database solutions, with practical knowledge of database schema design, scaling methods.
• Experience with containerization and tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and AKS.
• Experience building backend systems for AAA game services or doing engine/system programming for games is a big plus.