Scorewarrior
is a game developer and publisher based in Limassol, Cyprus. The company focuses on the 4X strategy genre, with an ambitious goal to grow its hit game,
Total Battle
, to become the No.1 strategy game in the world. Our team consists of
200+
passionate, talented, self-driven, and continually developing professionals who love making high-quality games.
Our product:
We are currently working on Total Battle — an MMO 4X strategy game with a deep political system and lots of player interaction. Players take on the role of a commander and need to develop their city, forge alliances, fight against monsters, and conquer other players. We're constantly developing new game mechanics, and the project is continuing to grow.
We are looking for a
Senior Backend Developer
to join the
Framework Team
building tools used by fellow engineers and powering game services across the company. You will work with modern
C++ (17/20)
, asynchronous systems, network communications (S2S), high-load services, and distributed architectures.
What do we do:
Design and develop
core SDK/framework modules
with clean abstractions to enable simple, fast, and high-quality game logic development.
Gather requirements and design
APIs, protocols, and service-to-service interaction contracts
.
Build
asynchronous and multithreaded code
with high performance in mind.
Work with
S2S communications
: idempotency, transactions, and guaranteed delivery in distributed systems.
Design and evolve
ORM and data persistence
layers (PostgreSQL, Redis).
Ensure
scalability
,
stability
, and
fault tolerance
of backend services.
Work with
legacy code
—simplify, refactor, and increase reliability without downtime or production risks.
Implement
observability
: metrics, logs, tracing.
Improve
developer tools and DevEx
— CMake, Conan, Python tooling, CI/CD scripts, Docker.
Participate in
code reviews, architectural discussions, mentoring
, and R&D exploration.
What we expect:
Ability to
gather requirements, design solutions, break down work, and deliver to production
independently.
3+ years
of backend development experience on a statically typed language under Linux.
3+ years
of commercial experience with
C++17/20
.
Strong knowledge of
asynchrony and multithreading
(threads, futures, coroutines, atomics).
Understanding of
network communication
(REST/RPC (gRPC), HTTP, WebSocket, TCP).
Hands-on experience with
PostgreSQL
(DDL/DML, transactions, indexes, migrations).
Solid software design skills:
Software Design
, SOLID, Clean Code, IoC/DI, composition, GoF patterns.
Experience working with
distributed and high-load systems
.
Understanding of
System Design
: scaling, degradation, caching, SLA/SLO/SLI.
Experience with
CI/CD, containers, and build systems
(CMake, Docker, Jenkins/GitLab).
Familiarity with
testing and performance tools
(GTest, Valgrind, Perf, Sanitizers).
English - B1 or higher, Russian - B2 or higher.
What we offer:
The best team in the world!
An excellent remuneration package, including a 13th salary.
Relocation package for you and your family to Cyprus (Limassol).
A modern and sunny office close to the sea.
Private health insurance for you and your family members.
A monthly pre-school, school, and university allowance for employees' children.
Lunch compensation and a sports and fitness allowance.
Personal development opportunities paid for by the company: professional and language courses, books, etc.
Bonuses for outstanding results, years worked, getting married, and the birth of a child.
Friendly monthly office parties and epic, annual offsite company birthday and Christmas parties.