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.

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).

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.

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📌 Senior Backend C++ Developer (Framework Team) (Relocation to Cyprus)
🏢 Scorewarrior
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