Backend Engineer - Anti-Cheat

The Anti-cheat team at Embark is responsible for upholding the integrity of our games, identifying instances of unfair play, and protecting the experience of our players. We have a versatile toolbox at our disposal, which we continuously evolve and refine, including client-side protections, third-party systems, machine-learning models. Being a core function supporting all of Embark games, we collaborate with many different stakeholders throughout the organisation, such as game teams, legal and community management.

We are now looking for a well rounded Backend engineer with front-end experience to strengthen our operational capacity. As a member of our Anti-cheat team you will, among other things, be responsible for maintaining and developing the services that power Embark's anti-cheat activities, and develop tools and visualizations within our internal web portals supporting both our own and other teams at Embark.

You are likely curious to continuously learn new skills. You enjoy working autonomously and taking initiatives, while also collaborating within and across teams. You enjoy applying the full breadth of your skill set to help protect our players from unfair play and malicious actors. By being creative and experimental you aim to solve problems in a game-changing way.

Example of responsibilities

• Operate, monitor and develop anti-cheat services critical to our live games
• Design and deploy internal services supporting the anti-cheat operation
• Work with internal users to design and develop web tools and visualizations

We would love if you have

• A creative and curious mind
• Proficiency in Go
• Proficiency in Typescript
• Experience in developing and operating distributed systems
• Experience in developing intuitive, easy-to-use, graphical interfaces
• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform
• Professional English communication skills
• Experience and/or interest in games and anti-cheat will be considered a bonus!

At Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.

We welcome game makers of all sex, class, colour, age, gender identity, education, religion, opinion, culture, nation of origin, language, sexual orientation, shape, size, and ability.

Did we leave anyone out? Well, we welcome you, too! We think that the gaming industry is made better when everyone has a seat at the table.

Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can't wait to hear from you (in English)!

Team Tech Locations Stockholm