Senior Software Developer

<h3>About Shockbyte</h3><p>Have you ever jumped into a Minecraft world, battled in ARK, or built in Rust? Chances are, you've already played on a Shockbyte server. We support 60+ games and host hundreds of thousands of players around the world, which makes us one of the largest game server hosting companies out there.</p><p>We're not just running servers. We're building the future of multiplayer. You'd be joining a global team that cares about making game hosting smooth for players and studios everywhere.</p><h3>About the role</h3><p>We're hiring a Senior Software Developer to be a core contributor on our product, working alongside our local product and engineering director and the rest of the engineering team out of our Eindhoven office.</p><p>You'll be working on the product that powers Shockbyte's game hosting: the platform our customers use to spin up, run, and manage their game servers. You'll develop projects end to end, write real solutions, ship features that customers feel, and focus on the company goals we set each quarter. As a senior on the team, people will lean on you for technical guidance, architecture calls, and code reviews.</p><p>You'll work across our full stack, including NestJS, VueJS, Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, and SQL, to deliver high-quality and reliable solutions for gamers everywhere.</p><p>The Eindhoven office is close to most of our engineering team, so you'll get plenty of in-person time with the people you build with. We work hybrid, with 3 days a week in the office.</p><p>On AI: we see it as a tool that significantly boosts what an IC can do. We want everyone at Shockbyte to experiment with it, learn where it helps and where it does not, and share findings so the whole team gets better with it.</p><h3>What you'll do</h3><ul><li>Drive updates to our core products as a senior engineer, helping with architecture, code reviews, and shipping features.</li><li>Experiment with AI tools like Claude Code, figure out where they help and where they do not, and share what you learn with the team.</li><li>Be a senior technical voice in the Eindhoven office. Help unblock people, answer technical questions, and improve how we work.</li><li>Keep our documentation in good shape so knowledge does not stay stuck in one person's head.</li></ul>