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About this Senior Software Engineer, Arcade (Backend) role at Triumph

Triumph · Onsite · San Francisco HQ

The right candidate is passionate about building and has the ability and agency to drive projects to completion.

You should be excited by the prospect of owning a large part of our engineering system, and continuously looking for more responsibility to take on.

Being a backend engineer at Triumph is both demanding and rewarding, and your scope will cover (but not be limited to):

  • Building consumer facing features to help Triumph's core business metrics

  • Work closely with data team to solve difficult data driven problems, such as optimal matchmaking, anti-fraud, etc.

    • Help drive these complex solution into production

  • Iterating on engineering processes to allow the growing team to ship fast - eg. experimentation platforms, improving CI/CD

Above all, we hire people for their slope, who are willing to match the pace and energy of the growth curve of the company. While we ask a lot, we regularly double down on our top people.

What You'll Work On (Arcade)

Triumph Arcade is a mobile platform where players compete in skill-based games for cash and prizes: async tournaments, real-time 1v1 matches, streaks, leagues and daily challenges. Triumph earns a service fee on each competition.

The backend decides who plays whom, scores every game, pays out winners and keeps play fair, across millions of games a week. You will work on:

  • Game modes and tournaments. Build and evolve async tournaments, blitz, streaks, leagues, challenges and new formats to engage in skill based games.

  • Matchmaking. Pair players by skill so matches are fast and fair, even in small pools.

  • Real-time multiplayer. Own live matches end to end: spin up game servers, connect players with low latency, and settle results.

  • Rewards and offers. Build the personalization engine that gives each player the right reward or offer at the right time.

  • Integrity. Work with fraud and payments to detect collusion, score tampering and multi-accounting.

  • Scalability. Build and improve backend scalability to support the next 10x of growth.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer (Go is nice)

  • Experience with storage systems (e.g., databases, object stores, or distributed file systems)

  • Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across work streams within your team and contribute to your peers' success

  • A strong personal slope and desire to grow one's career

Why Triumph?

  • High growth. Build a high-scale consumer platform that touches gaming, finance, and social with the autonomy to set our web direction.

  • High agency. Small, high-impact engineering team that is growing rapidly with significant opportunity for leadership and growth.

  • High energy. Passionate team who are proud of our work and velocity.

  • Competitive salary and benefits. $400/mo lunch credit, healthcare, vision, dental, 401k, etc.

Our team gathers 5 days a week at Triumph’s headquarters in San Francisco.

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How this Software Engineer salary compares

This role pays $300,000/yr — above the typical range for Software Engineer roles.

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Typical range $201,916–$260,000/yr, from 59 comparable Software Engineer listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Software Engineer salary insights →

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