Lead Backend Engineer

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Lead Backend Engineer

Located in Chicago’s River North area, Level Ex’s fast-growing game studio is transforming the way surgeons hone their skills by practicing high-risk surgeries with the latest medical devices in our industry-leading mobile, AR, and VR titles.

Our games are built using state-of-the-art graphics with physics technology and deploy an arsenal of well-designed game mechanics to capture the thrill and challenge of performing real surgery. Backed by a mature art pipeline and latest-gen engine tech, we’re able to recreate surgery with spectacular realism.

Our team unites award-winning game designers, developers, and artists with industry-leading surgeons, all passionate about using game design approaches to keep doctors across the world performing at the top of their game.

We’re looking for a technical, experienced Lead Backend Engineer to join our team.

 

What You’ll Be Doing with Us  

  • Owning and managing strategy and implementation for the ‘live’ elements of our products, including:  “game server” (leaderboards, achievements, groups/clans, etc.), persistent data storage, single sign-on, analytics, notifications, attribution, etc.

  • Architecting backend systems

  • Coordinating with the lead product manager, BI, and other teams on backend and analytics engineering needs

  • Managing and maintaining backend tools for mobile games

  • Integrating and configuring 3rd party backend solutions and SDKs

 

Who We Want To Meet

  • 4+ years of experience working with backend tools and cloud services for games (analytics, notifications, etc.)

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and experience

  • Extensive database and remote API experience, including fluency in SQL

  • Knowledge and comfort with analytics tools i.e: Leanplum, DeltaDNA, Tableau, Looker, etc.

  • Familiarity with at least one of the major three Cloud providers; AWS, GCP or Azure

  • Experience working with stakeholders to design and implement custom web services

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

 

Bonus Points Awarded For

  • 2+ years of experience in iOS & Android development

  • 2+ years of experience with gaming as a service provider, such as Playfab or Gamesparks

  • Experience with a data warehouse tool, like Snowflake

  • Experience with Unity or UE4

  • Experience in at least one; C++, C# or Java

  • Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field

 

How We Make You Happy

  • Creating games that genuinely make a difference in people’s lives

  • Competitive salary

  • Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays

  • Medical, dental and vision benefits

  • 401k plan with matching, flex spending account, and commuter benefits

  • Unlimited cold brew coffee, beer, and tasty snacks  

  • Flexible, reasonable work schedules in a team-focused environment

 

Interested?  

Here's an interview with our CEO called, "Xbox for Docs: Pharma backs AR games for use in physician learning" about how we’re using video game design & psychology for helping physicians. 

Please click on the "Apply Now" link below to share your resume plus a cover letter on how you're a great fit based on the job description. 

Candidates must be authorized to work and accept new employment in the U.S.

No Agencies/Recruiters, please

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
  • People Operations
    • C#Languages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • KotlinLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • RLanguages
    • ScalaLanguages
    • SqlLanguages
    • jQueryLibraries
    • ReactLibraries
    • Angular.JSFrameworks
    • Node.jsFrameworks
    • React NativeFrameworks
    • Unity 3D Game EngineFrameworks
    • SnowflakeDatabases
    • AWS (Amazon Web Services)Services
    • GitHubServices
    • Perforce (version control)Services
    • Google AnalyticsAnalytics
    • TableauAnalytics
    • CanvaDesign
    • FigmaDesign
    • IllustratorDesign
    • MiroDesign
    • PhotoshopDesign
    • SketchDesign
    • AsanaManagement
    • ConfluenceManagement
    • Google DriveManagement
    • Google DocsManagement
    • Google SlidesManagement
    • JIRAManagement
    • HootsuiteCMS
    • DocuSignCRM
    • HubSpotCRM
    • ContentfulCRM
    • SlackCollaboration
    • ZoomCollaboration
    • MiroCollaboration
    • AsanaProject Management
    • LatticeProject Management

Location

Downtown Loop, right across the street from a major CTA hub at the James Thompson Center, plus 10-15 minutes from Metra.

An Insider's view of Level Ex

What are some social events your company does?

A few times a year, Level Ex has a company-wide game day. It’s a great way to allow co-workers that normally wouldn’t work together to meet and hang out. It also provides a way to explore different game mechanics in all types of games. I can have fun with a teammate in Boston and another in Colorado all while playing with local co-workers, too.

Curtis Schmidt

Director of Video Production

What does your typical day look like?

No day is exactly alike, which keeps work interesting! I interface with clients and physician advisors to identify any challenges for physicians to learn about a device, treatment solution, procedure, or medical topic. I also work with our internal design and dev team to create medically accurate experiences that satisfy physicians' learning needs.

Maggie Xing

Senior Biomedical Solution Specialist

What makes someone successful on your team?

What makes someone successful on my team is leaning into the interdisciplinary aspect of Level Ex’s culture and workflow. You really have to embrace learning from others and simultaneously enjoy teaching others about your own discipline. This building of collective knowledge not only makes this team successful, but also makes us unique.

Victoria Perizes

Senior Biomedical Solutions Specialist

What unique initiatives do you have that encourage innovation?

We hold company-wide ‘game jams’ where we assemble into small teams that each quickly build an entirely new game from scratch. In a 2-3 day period, each team chooses and tackles a problem in medicine: from infection control to diabetes. This is one of many ways we fuel cross-disciplinary collaboration and creativity between art, dev, and design.

Sam Glassenberg

Founder & CEO

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

I started at Level Ex a few years ago on the Medical team, focused on ensuring that we achieved clinical accuracy in all of the content in our enterprise games. Since then, I’ve served as a discipline lead and am now in the role of Product Manager, helping identify and build features that are valuable to our clients and end users.

Sam Dreyer

Product Manager

What are Level Ex Perks + Benefits

Level Ex Benefits Overview

- Multiple health insurance plans with 100% company-paid premiums
- 100% full-time remote or hybrid for those able to come to our awesome Chicago location
- Dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) with a generous company-paid match
- 4 weeks of PTO
- Short-term disability, life insurance, medical leave, parental leave, military leave, volunteer time off, and bereavement leave
- DEI events, game jams, and remote after-hours team events, like board games tabletop simulator, Jackbox Games, etc
Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Pre-tax flex spending, and commuter accounts
- Optional pet insurance

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Food drive
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Restricted work hours
Great work/life balance
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Cold brew coffee, gourmet coffee, kombucha, Bevi sparkling water, craft beer, breakfast options, and both healthy and comfort snacks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Online course subscriptions available

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