Remote Lead Backend Engineer - Games & Scale

Gardens, a fully distributed game studio, is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to guide and grow our backend team. You will own backend architecture, production code, reliability, and cost, while collaborating with game design, marketing, and production to deliver scalable, live-service systems for a global audience. You’ll thrive leading engineers across a lean, ownership-focused team in a remote North American time‑zone setup, communicating trade-offs clearly and shaping a practical, ambitious