Backend Engineer

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Seoul, South KoreaRecently posted

Apply on Scatter Lab's career page

Market pay check

Matched to Computer systems and software professionals

Source: Ministry of Employment and Labor wage information system (wage.go.kr), wage distribution by occupation.

What you'd do

Develop and stably operate the zeta service backend handling hundreds of thousands of daily active users at game-server-level traffic
Design scalable and flexible backend architecture to support continuous user base growth
Build monitoring systems enabling rapid incident detection and response

What they want

3+ years of experience operating Spring (Kotlin or Java) services,or equivalent knowledge depth
Experience designing and operating systems handling large-scale traffic
Solid computer science fundamentals in OS and networking

Nice to have

Experience developing async or non-blocking web applications
Experience operating AI-based services in production
Kubernetes and Istio infrastructure operation experience

Seoulstart's read

Visa tier (likely): E-7 specialty / professional (likely)
Korean language: Native Korean fluency required
English friendliness: Medium: English JD, mixed-language workplace
Context: Backend engineering role supporting 100+ real-time GPUs for Scatter Lab's in-house LLM; traffic doubles monthly and the service sustains game-server-level load,providing direct exposure to high-scale AI serving infrastructure that is rare at Seoul startups.

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