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Backend Engineer Intern, Lightspeed Studios

🏢 Tencent • 📍 London, England • 🕒 1 day ago

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Full Benefits Package

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London, England

Tier-1 UK Economic Zone

Est. Take-Home Pay

68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

Work Mode:

Onsite

Responsibilities:

LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS is one of the world’s most innovative and successful game developers, with teams across China, United States, Singapore, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and United Arab Emirates. We have created over 50 games across multiple platforms and genres for more than 4 billion registered users. We are the co-developer of worldwide hit PUBG MOBILE (co-developed with KRAFTON, Inc.), with a lot of passionate players who advance the art & science of game development through great stories, great gameplay, and advanced technology. We focus on bringing next generation experiences to gamers who want to enjoy games anywhere, anytime, across multiple genres and devices.

Evaluate and design massively scalable game back-end services and assist in developing the project architecture;
Evaluate and design periphery back-end services and assist in developing the project architecture.

Requirements:

Can dedicate 40 hours/week for the internsihp for over 6 months;
Proficient C/C++/Golang skills and knowledge of advanced data structures and algorithms;
Experience in most general software design patterns;
Highly skilled in TCP(UDP)IP, networking, client-server systems, and high-performance distributed systems;
Experience in Micro-services, Cloud Native Architecture, Docker, container-driven systems, and SQL/No-SQL Databases;
Responsible and able to control the development progress and quality of the modules under your responsibility;
Good analytical problem-solving skills.