We are seeking a C

++ Backend Engineer to build and operate backend services that power player-facing experiences in a live, high-traffic environment. You will deliver reliable APIs, scalable systems, secure data handling, and strong operational excellence in close partnership with client engineers.

Responsibilities

- Design backend services and APIs consumed by latency-sensitive game or client UI

- Implement secure authentication and authorization and protect sensitive user data

- Build scalable data models and storage strategies including transactions and caching

- Define pagination, rate limiting, and idempotency patterns to ensure safe, repeatable requests

- Own reliability through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and post-incident improvements

- Collaborate with client engineers to shape API contracts and resilient user flows

- Write automated tests, participate in code reviews, and improve CI/CD and deployment practices

Requirements

- 2+ years of experience building production backend systems for consumer-facing products at scale

- Hands-on experience collaborating with client engineers to define API contracts and resilient UI flows





- Proven experience owning service reliability through monitoring, alerting, and incident response

- Strong API design skills with REST and/or gRPC, including versioning and backward compatibility

- Solid database fundamentals with SQL (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and practical caching experience with Redis

- Strong cloud and operations fundamentals with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and observability (logs, metrics, tracing)

- Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2) for daily collaboration and technical discussions

Nice to have

- Go Core

- Python

- Unreal Engine

We offer

- International projects with top brands

- Work with general teams of highly skilled, diverse peers

- Healthcare benefits

- Employee financial programs

- Paid time off and sick leave

- Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses

- Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses

- Global career opportunities

- Volunteer and community involvement opportunities

- EPAM Employee Groups

- Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn

📌 C++ Backend Engineer (Argentina)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Argentina