Who Are We?

HoYoverse is committed to providing immersive virtual world experiences to players around the world. We have brought fans popular games including Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Honkai Impact 3rd, Tears of Themis, and Zenless Zone Zero, as well as a wide range of entertainment content.

Community is at the heart of everything we do. We are devoted to engaging fans and fostering an enthusiastic and inclusive global community that provides access and encouragement for people to share their passion for ACG (Animation, Comics, and Games) through their own creativity and skills.

Pushing the boundaries of imagination, we consistently explore cutting-edge game development technologies, and have accumulated leading technical capabilities in cel shading, cloud gaming, and other fields.

In the future, we will continue to expand our content production, technology research, and publishing duties through operations in offices in Singapore, Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, and other areas.

When you apply to a position with HoYoverse, we will process your personal data. To learn more about how we process your data, we encourage you to review our comprehensive Global Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy. This policy provides detailed insights into how your information is collected, used, and protected throughout the application process.

What You Will Do:

Are you a passionate and innovative backend engineer, hungry to leave your mark on the world that Tech Otakus are going to save? Our global account team at HoYoverse is on the lookout for exceptional talent to join our ranks as we revolutionize the tech industry with our cutting-edge system to manage all the users at Genshin Impact, Honkai Impact, Tears of Themis, Zenless, HoYoLab, etc.

We serve billions of users in the world, we handle systems with high-volume traffic and we design the most sophisticated, scalable, and robust account system in the industry. Now, we're ready to take our platform to the next level, and we need your help. As a HoYoverse Account Backend Engineer, you'll have the unique opportunity to:

  • Be responsible for the development and maintenance of our global account systems, in charge of the services which serve billions of users.
  • Be responsible for the improvement of the user experience of all the lifecycles, creating the smoothest flow for all our users.
  • Work closely with our security and risk-control teams, to offer best protection on user's accounts.
  • Dive into the global compliance, and build systems that meet the diverse regulations across all countries in the world.
  • Promote good engineering practices as a senior engineer in the team such as chaos engineering, CI/CD pipeline, grayscale deployment, multi-cluster environment, traffic labeling, and unit testing.

What We Are Looking For:

  • Bachelor's degree (or above) in Computer Science or related programs, with at least 5 years of experience in server-side development.
  • Proficient in any programming language with at least 3 years of experience, though Golang is preferred.
  • Familiar with the development and maintenance of business-critical & large-scale micro-services, understanding services optimization and monitoring.
  • Familiar with web service development and related tech stack, including HTTP, security, database, cache, message queue, etc.
  • Be the owner / go-to person of features you are responsible for, able to independently handle all stages of the development lifecycle including requirement discussion, tech design, development, testing, and delivery.
  • Strong responsibility, willing to challenge yourself to deliver and maintain services with the objective of 0 downtimes.

Bonus Points:

  • Experienced in account system, be familiar with login flow and the tech stack behind it.
  • Familiar with international compliance/security standards such as ISO-27001, ISO-27701, SOC2, etc.
  • Familiar with common security techniques such as encryption, hashing, KMS services, etc

We are an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds are key to bringing our concepts to life. If you're looking to play a key role in creating the best immersive virtual world experience for our users, we invite you to join our team.

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