Location: Vancouver

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience Level: Senior (6-8+ years of experience)

Company Overview:

Punt is a fast-growing technology company and the creator of a market-leading online social gaming platform. Our mission is to build the most advanced, engaging, and seamless social gaming experiences in the world.

Role Overview:

We’re seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help design, build, and scale our next-generation social gaming platform. You’ll work on highly concurrent systems, architecting APIs and backend services that power millions of players. This is a hands-on role where you’ll solve complex problems, write clean and performant code, and collaborate closely with senior engineers and leadership.



Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and optimization of scalable backend features using Laravel (PHP).
• Architect and evolve backend infrastructure to support high-traffic workloads and real-time interactions.
• Refactor and transition components from a monolithic architecture to microservices architecture
• Design and maintain RESTful and internal APIs with strong reliability and security.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting.
• Conduct technical reviews, mentor junior developers, and contribute to internal documentation and standards.
• Ensure performance, security, and availability of backend systems under load.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 7+ years of backend development experience, including leading complex backend initiatives.
• Strong experience with PHP and Laravel in production environments.
• Deep understanding of PostgreSQL (or similar relational DBs), database schema design, and query optimization.
• Solid grasp of backend performance tuning, caching strategies, and scalable system design.
• Experience with AWS (e.g., ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3) and cloud-native development patterns.
• Proven success in building and maintaining production CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and system observability (e.g., metrics, logging, tracing).
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Skills and Nice-to-haves

• Experience with event-driven or microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with Redis, RabbitMQ, or similar tools for caching and queuing.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps and secure code principles.
• Exposure to cryptocurrency, blockchain, or gaming/fintech platforms.
• Experience working in high-availability or real-time systems.
• Understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes).
• Strong mathematical, statistical, or data analysis skills.

Education & Location

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• This job is based on Vancouver, BC, employees are expected to be in office 5 days per week.

Why Join Punt?

• Be part of a rapidly growing company!
• Play a strategic role in a collaborative, innovative team
• Work with cutting-edge technology in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
• Be part of a passionate and talented team driving innovation in the gaming industry.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunities for continuous learning, professional growth, and leadership

If you’re passionate about building scalable, impactful solutions and enjoy leading architectural direction, apply now to join Diamond Interactive and help shape the future of our products!