Scatter Lab

Backend Engineer

Seoul, South KoreaRecently posted

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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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