Remote Backend Engineer — Real-Time MMO Systems

Soulbound, a London-based indie game studio, seeks backend engineers to scale a real-time MMO backend on Kubernetes. You will work with stateful game servers, Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and multi-cluster orchestration to support thousands of players across regions.

The role emphasizes building scalable services, improving observability, and collaborating with a senior team on architecture. 100% remote, overlapping UK hours, contract 4–8 weeks with possible extension.