General requirements
Description
INTRODUCTION
Competition Company is an ambitious young studio, driven by the passion of the youth and enabled by gaming, esports and racing veterans. With our main offices situated in Munich (Germany), and Malmö (Sweden), we are proud of having a distributed team across various countries and cities.
We are in the race of our lives with a precise motivation: offer players, digital racers and car enthusiasts the ultimate playground for them to enjoy, share, create and even monetize their passion for cars and digital racing.
The product
RENNSPORT is the playground for car enthusiasts. A live-service racing simulation in its alpha stage of development with thousands of eager players already on the waiting list for release, as well as a top tier live competition dubbed “ESL R1”.
RENNSPORT (the game) and ESL R1 are the tip of the iceberg in our vision to completely transform how players and fans engage with racing games, where the community of players, modders, and pro drivers are front and centre of everything we do.
RESPONSIBILITIES
You have a genuine interest in creating scalable online systems that can benefit millions of players. We believe you take pride in code crafting and that you are motivated by bleeding-edge technology. You are comfortable with working in an international environment, have good communication skills in English, and are aligned with our core values.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Identify and define technical solutions for bleeding edge online features
- Write clean, maintainable, portable code with the goal of bringing the best online experience to our players
- Ensure that new features and systems meet high performance requirements and match the project’s C++ code style
- Document your work to share knowledge on how to use the new systems and functionalities
- Contribute to planning sessions and code reviews with your peers
- Work together with other international studios
YOUR PROFILE
Professional experience of working with modern Golang, including package management, refactoring, optimisation, debugging and testing.
Experience in profiling and low-level optimisations.
Experienced with databases and database design with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL.
Experienced with API design.
Interest within cloud technology (such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure).
Interest in collaboration with systems administrators (in a “DevOps” environment), focused on automation and containerisation.
What could make you stand out more?
- Engineering degree in computer science, or equivalent is a plus
- Experience with Kubernetes and Google Cloud
- Experience with non-relational databases
- Experience with Message Bus/Streaming Architecture
- Experience with game development and working with first parties
- Experience with live services
- Experience with Unreal Engine
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US
Full-time role in Malmö, Sweden OR Munich, Germany OR Remote (Sweden/Germany ONLY)
The opportunity to be part of the early team that wants to change digital racing
Have clear and direct impact on our product and players experiences
An attractive, market-standard, salary package
ABOUT US
Competition Company is an ambitious young studio, driven by the passion of the youth and enabled by gaming, esports and racing veterans. With our main offices situated in Munich (Germany), and Malmö (Sweden), we are proud of having a distributed team across various countries and cities.
We are in the race of our lives with a precise motivation: offer players, digital racers and car enthusiasts the ultimate playground for them to enjoy, share, create and even monetize their passion for cars and digital racing.
At Competition Company we value:
- Responsibility and self-development – those who take ownership of their tasks and goals and always strive to be and make the team better every single day;
- Integrity and transparency – those who are known for candour and transparency, that own mistakes and share learnings, but also speak up when there are challenges;
- Curiosity and open-mindedness – those who love to learn and explore new news, that see patterns and connections that most people miss, that care about what our players struggle with and that enjoy to think and operate outside the box;
- Work hard, have fun – those who understand that deadlines will always have a place in their work routine, but that do not forget to have fun, be healthy, and enjoy their private life.
