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Lead Backend Engineer

gardens interactive • United States
Full Remote
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AI Summary

Lead a team of backend engineers, focusing on team leadership, hands-on development, and cross-functional collaboration. Requires 6+ years of backend experience, including 2+ years in management, and strong Kotlin/Java skills. This is a fully remote, full-time position.

Key Highlights
Lead backend engineers, manage team, and create hiring plans.
Own backend architecture, write production code, and manage reliability.
Collaborate with design, marketing, and production; communicate status to leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Manage, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers.
Create hiring plans and interview technical candidates.
Own team processes: planning, code review standards, on-call/bug triage, and how work gets scoped and estimated.
Create a healthy, high-trust engineering culture.
Review pull requests and unblock engineers on hard technical problems.
Own the evolution of our backend architecture and write production code on critical-path systems.
Own reliability, service level objectives, incident response, and infrastructure cost.
Partner closely with game design, marketing, and production to scope features and keep engineering aligned with the creative vision.
Partner with the Technical Director to create a realistic technical roadmap.
Communicate engineering status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to studio leadership.

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Technical Skills Required
Kotlin Java Kubernetes
Benefits & Perks
Stock options
Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Life insurance
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
401(k) contributions
RRSP contributions
DPSP contributions
Paid parental leave

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Nice to Have
Experience taking a live-service game through launch and post-launch operations.
Experience at an independent or mid-size studio.

Job Description

At Gardens Interactive, we're building games centered on connection, collective adventure, and emergent stories. We believe the spirit with which we build games is reflected in the experiences our players have. The way we collaborate, solve problems, navigate uncertainty, and care for one another ultimately shapes the worlds we create. We're creating magical, shared experiences that bring players together and we know those experiences come from teams that are curious, resilient, ambitious, and deeply committed to one another.

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Job Overview
Posted Nov 07, 2026
Employment Full-time
Experience Mid-Senior level
Location United States
Category Programming
Company gardens interactive
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