Online Services Engineer, Pragma
$135-180k
0.05% – 0.18%
Backend engine for multiplayer & social games
Job no longer available
Backend engine for multiplayer & social games
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$135-180k
0.05% – 0.18%
21-100 employees
Company mission
To support the most ambitious studios in the world by delivering a platform that tackles some of the hardest problems in gaming and social.
Role
Who you are
- Deep empathy for game engineers and a desire to improve their quality of life by delivering simple yet robust interfaces
- A team-oriented mindset that prioritizes team effectiveness over individual efficiency
- Desire to continuously collaborate using voice or video channels in a remote-first environment
- Experience with constructing distributed systems that scale
- Experience integrating/maintaining APIs/SDKs to remote applications, especially game platforms
- Experience with automated testing, including unit, integration, and load tests
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced engineer to join our product team to implement and support our game engine
- Empowered product teams at Pragma lead the charge on unlocking game studios by defining online capabilities and shaping game system tools
- You’ll be building the APIs that game engineers use to power their multiplayer games
- This includes partnering with product managers to understand the problem space, proposing solutions, participating in customer interviews, and delivering the product
Our take
Pragma offers game studios a range of applications that allow them to build, operate, and scale live, social games. Despite only launching in 2020, the platform already boasts an impressive stable of customers including Wonderstorm (The Dragon Prince), and Midnight Society (Co-founded by people behind Halo and Call of Duty).
As the need increases for new games to be multiplayer and cross-platform enabled, it’s clever of Pragma to offer a back-end toolkit that can take care of much of this infrastructure development. Essentially, small to midsize studios can focus more on actual game development and vastly reduce launch times.
The people behind the startup are no strangers to the $200 billion gaming industry, which goes some way in explaining its early stage performance and impressive fundraises. CTO Chris Cobb was an Engineering Lead at the hugely successful Riot Games, while CEO Eden Chen founded well known immersive studio Fishermen Labs.
It looks as though Pragma’s plan to target the growing number of smaller breakout studios led by well-known creators is a good strategy for the time being, at least, as the company gradually expands its range of products. It has received significant funding too, with $12.8 million awarded in 2025 being channelled into expanding its infrastructure and game-dev tools.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2025
$12.8m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$22m
SERIES B
Total funding: $51m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off and paid parental leave.
- Employee ownership
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Home office cost coverage to make your home office epic. Coworking cost coverage for those that can’t work from home.
- Annual retreat to meet together somewhere around the world, all expenses paid.
Company HQ
Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Eden Chen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Forbes 30 under 30 & TEDx speaker. Prior to Pragma, founded and led Fishermen Labs, a fast-growth immersive studio specializing in AR, VR, Mobile App, and Web Development. Also founded LA-based hedge fund of Lightmark Capital, gaining recognition from Bloomberg as one of the country's top young hedge fund managers.
Chris Cobb
(Co-Founder, President & CTO)Decorated Software Engineer who spent three years at PopCap Games, before moving to Riot Games as Lead Engineer, where they worked predominantly on player and community experiences for League of Legends. Co-founded and was CEO of Bot School Inc (acquired by Phoenix Labs, 2019).
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