# Lead Backend Engineer

At Gardens Interactive, we're building games centered on connection, collective adventure, and emergent stories. We believe the spirit with which we build games is reflected in the experiences our players have. The way we collaborate, solve problems, navigate uncertainty, and care for one another ultimately shapes the worlds we create. We're creating magical, shared experiences that bring players together and we know those experiences come from teams that are curious, resilient, ambitious, and deeply committed to one another. We're a fully remote studio that embraces collaboration, thoughtful iteration, and the courage to explore new ideas. If you're excited by ambiguity, enjoy solving difficult problems with kind, talented teammates, and want to help build worlds where friendships flourish, we'd love to meet you. As our Lead Backend Engineer, you will... Team Leadership Manage, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers: set goals, run 1:1s, give feedback, and support career development. Create hiring plans and interview technical candidates based on product needs. Own team processes: planning, code review standards, on-call/bug triage, and how work gets scoped and estimated.

- **Id**: 3910759
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gardens-interactive-lead-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Hiring countries**: US, CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 2
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T06:33:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T19:12:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7445
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Game Development

## Company

- **Id**: 1877279
- **Name**: Gardens Interactive
- **Domain**: gardens.dev
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gardens-dev>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Remote working hours

- **Label**: UTC-8 – UTC-5
- **Utc offset min**: \-8
- **Utc offset max**: \-5

## Salary

- **Min**: 196000
- **Max**: 203000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 203000

## Technologies

- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T06:59:47Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 34
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T22:26:36Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 203000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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