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Job description
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 flagship game, Total Battle, into 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 mission: to unite and excite people all over the world.
Responsibilities
- Designing and developing the Core backend component and creating user-friendly APIs with Doxygen descriptions.
- Refactoring and isolating existing modules and eliminating technical debt.
- Preparing and reviewing ADRs/RFCs, formulating architectural solutions within your team/service, and presenting them to the architectural board for discussion.
- Conducting code reviews and design reviews of game mechanics.
- Maintaining high quality by writing unit and integration tests, implementing metrics, and profiling code.
- Planning, decomposing, and delegating sub-tasks and evaluating the results thereof.
- Developing tools and scripts for automating internal development processes.
Requirements
- 6+ years of commercial development, including 3+ years in C++ backend.
- C++ 17/20: STL, templates (concepts).
- The ability to participate in creating or reviewing architectural documentation (ADRs/RFCs).
- Practical experience in software design: SOLID, YAGNI/KISS/DRY, patterns.
- Knowledge of Service-Oriented/Action(Command)-based approaches.
- Networking & Concurrency: TCP/HTTP, RPC (gRPC/protobuf), thread-pools, and an understanding of async/await.
- Observability: Prometheus/InfluxDB, Grafana, or analogs.
Conditions
- A Great Place to Work. 99% employee satisfaction, low turnover, and colleagues who genuinely enjoy collaborating.
- Live and work in sunny Cyprus. We’re an office-first team in Limassol with a modern seaside workspace, and full relocation and visa support for you and your family.
- Shape a global hit. We’re the only European studio with a 4X strategy title in the world’s top-10. Our top-50 mobile game has grown 25x in revenue and audience in the last five years.
- Grow fast in a company that’s already strong. We’re independent, financially rock-solid, and expanding at startup speed, and we have never had lay-offs.
- Work where ideas win. Flat structure, collective decision-making, and honest feedback create full transparency and help you grow fast.
- Earn industry-leading rewards. High salaries, a 13th month, performance bonuses, and extra rewards for long service, marriage, or welcoming a child, and lunch every day.
- Feel supported at every stage of life. Private family health insurance, plus a monthly allowance for children’s pre-school, school, and university education.
- Your growth is our priority. From specialized training and certifications to language courses and books, you’ll have everything you need to keep learning.
About Scorewarrior
Scorewarrior is a Cyprus-based game development and publishing studio focused on 4X strategy and MMO games, with its flagship title being Total Battle. The company operates globally and emphasizes community-driven gameplay and player socialization.
