Senior Software Developer

About Shockbyte: Shockbyte is a premier, internationally recognized game server hosting pioneer, cloud infrastructure innovator, and multiplayer technology leader on an absolute mission to build the future of multiplayer gaming. Supporting over 60 top-tier gaming titles—including world-famous sandboxes like Minecraft, survival titles like ARK, and massive open-world environments like Rust—Shockbyte hosts hundreds of thousands of active players around the globe, rendering it one of the largest specialized server providers in existence today. Driven by our Stormbringer core values, our globally distributed engineering collective unifies high-performance cloud orchestration, automated deployment pipelines, and bare-metal server optimization to make multiplayer gaming frictionless, fast, and accessible for players and indie studios alike.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly sophisticated, systems-minded Senior Software Developer to join our core global Engineering team in a full-time remote capacity within the European Union (with primary regional focus points in Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, and Vienna). In this deeply technical full-stack seat, you will serve as a core contributor building, scaling, and maintaining the proprietary product platform our customers utilize to seamlessly spin up, configure, monitor, and manage their dedicated server infrastructure. Moving completely away from basic boilerplate scripts, you will handle full-cycle project implementation loops under high concurrency, make critical architecture definitions, and conduct thorough peer code reviews. This high-agency role demands an outcome-driven engineer who possesses a genuine passion for gaming mechanics and server-side infrastructure, and who is excited to use advanced AI assistants to boost day-to-day coding velocity.

Key Responsibilities

• Core Product Architecture Curation: Lead the end-to-end design, development, and expansion of Shockbyte’s central hosting platform, ensuring absolute backend performance, secure transactional flows, and high scalability margins.
• Full-Stack Service Engineering: Program, refactor, and deploy robust microservices and interactive user interfaces natively utilizing our modern stack, including NestJS, VueJS, Go, and TypeScript.
• Containerized Infrastructure Orchestration: Configure, monitor, and optimize backend server instantiation, data queues, and automated instance generation networks inside Kubernetes.
• Relational Database Management: Architect clean relational tables, execute complex database migrations, and perform database query tuning across deep SQL data blocks.
• AI-Augmented Development Triaging: Experiment natively with cutting-edge AI software utilities, including Claude Code, identifying optimal integration hooks, tracking prompt regressions, and sharing data-driven findings to elevate team-wide velocity.
• High-Concurrency System Design: Architect server networks capable of handling intense real-time multi-tenant traffic and high data loads, meticulously balancing system trade-offs between memory footprints and processing latency.
• Rigorous Code Review Hygiene: Serve as an authoritative technical voice, unblocking junior and mid-level developers, conducting thorough reviews of pull requests, and maintaining strict code documentation standards to prevent knowledge silos.
• Linux Terminal and Network Auditing: Troubleshoot time-sensitive server-side defects, navigating comfortably via a Linux terminal to diagnose bare-metal configurations, network packet dropouts, and routing anomalies.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of verified professional history running advanced full-stack software development, distributed systems architecture, server orchestration, or infrastructure engineering.
• Demonstrated history building, scaling, and maintaining production-grade applications natively using **NestJS, Go, TypeScript, or VueJS**.
• Hands-on commercial experience managing database layers using **SQL query tuning** and navigating orchestration frameworks via **Kubernetes**.
• Deep technical comfort utilizing next-generation AI coding assistants like **Claude Code** to accelerate script production and maintain code quality parameters.
• A clear product mindset, with a proven capacity to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, isolate hidden process issues, and build strategic solutions independently.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related STEM field (or equivalent practical hands-on experience).
• European Union Work Eligibility: Pre-existing, legal authorization to work full-time within the European Union without requiring company sponsorship.
• Location Context: Parameters open to qualified senior developers working 100% remotely from home across the **EU or UK (including Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, or Vienna)**, with complete readiness to travel occasionally to our Eindhoven office in The Netherlands for in-person team bonding blocks.

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• A strong personal interest or active involvement in running game server communities, setting up custom home labs, or handling bare-metal network routing layers.
• Prior experience leading, scaling, or mentoring a small technical squad of developers within a fast-paced technology scale-up or gaming studio.
• A continuous habit of automating away repetitive developmental tasks, configuration friction, and deployment bottlenecks.
• Familiarity with prominent international gaming ecosystem milestones and events like GDC or Gamescom.

What We Offer

• The exceptional professional canvas to directly direct, code, and deploy the automated infrastructure engines hosting multi-tenant gaming worlds for hundreds of thousands of active players globally.
• Highly attractive, capability-calibrated baseline salary structures supplemented by a transparent path for long-term career velocity and promotions.
• Profound work-from-home remote parameters offering high lifestyle flexibility, complete schedule trust, and core operational alignment with European working hours.
• Immediate eligibility to access a dedicated **Home Office or Co-working Stipend** to customize your residential workspace efficiently.
• A dedicated corporate **Professional Development Budget** to fund advanced engineering courses, technical text-books, and cloud certifications.
• Access to global industry event travel opportunities, free tickets to prominent esports tournaments, and interactive gaming expos.
• Generous company wellness perks, including entirely **Free Game Server Hosting accounts** to spin up your own environments and play on us, custom merchandise packs, and engaging virtual team events.