Scorewarrior

Backend C++ developer in high-load services

In short

Senior Backend Developer role at Scorewarrior (Total Battle game publisher) in Limassol, Cyprus, joining the Framework Team to build SDK/framework modules and high-load distributed game services. Requires 3+ years of backend development under Linux with a statically typed language, 3+ years of commercial C++17/20 experience, strong async/multithreading skills, PostgreSQL experience, and English B1+/Russian B2+. Includes relocation to Cyprus with family support, private health insurance, and 13th salary.

About
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. 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.
Задачи (Responsibilities)
•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.
Требования (Requirements)
•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.
Условия (Conditions)
•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.

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