Backgammon Galaxy

Backgammon Galaxy is a web and mobile platform designed to offer exceptional backgammon features and thrilling game design. It holds the status of being the leading brand and platform of the competition backgammon community. The software is developed by the best subject matter experts in the world, ensuring it encompasses all key features: fast and aesthetically pleasing gameplay, server-based analysis, learning tools, ELO ratings, leaderboards, and more. Furthermore, it has already demonstrated impressive user retention and long-term usage. The Backgammon Galaxy rating system stands as the sole prominent and credible rating system worldwide for online backgammon. Founding team: Grandmaster: Marc Olsen Grandmaster and 2022 World Champion: Sander Lylloff Super-Grandmaster and 2009+2021 World Champion: Masayuki Mochizuki Master: Tue Rasmussen Master: Wilson Semilio

backgammongalaxy.com

Backgammon Galaxy

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HQRemote

Team Size16

Open Jobs4

Total Funding-

Latest FundraiseUnknown

TL;DR

What they do: Web and mobile platform for playing, analyzing, and learning backgammon

Founded / HQ: 2019; Nicosia, Cyprus

Product highlights: Live play vs players and AI, server-side analysis, learning tools, ELO ratings, leaderboards

Funding: Seed round (Mar 1, 2022); investor: Unpopular Ventures

Team signal: Led by Marc Olsen with several grandmaster contributors

Company Overview

Problem Domain

Skill-based gaming and player training for the backgammon competitive community

Founded

2019

Industry

Mobile Gaming Apps

Funding Track Record

Seed- 2022-03-01

Investor Signal

“Backed by Unpopular Ventures (seed)”

Founders

What we do

TL;DR

Company Overview

Funding Track Record

Founders

What we do

Backgammon Galaxy

backgammongalaxy.com

Backgammon Galaxy

backgammongalaxy.com

HQRemote

Team Size16

Open Jobs4

Total Funding-

Latest FundraiseUnknown

TL;DR

What they do: Web and mobile platform for playing, analyzing, and learning backgammon

Founded / HQ: 2019; Nicosia, Cyprus

Product highlights: Live play vs players and AI, server-side analysis, learning tools, ELO ratings, leaderboards

Funding: Seed round (Mar 1, 2022); investor: Unpopular Ventures

Team signal: Led by Marc Olsen with several grandmaster contributors

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Company Overview

Problem Domain

Skill-based gaming and player training for the backgammon competitive community

Founded

2019

Industry

Mobile Gaming Apps

Funding Track Record

Seed- 2022-03-01

Investor Signal

“Backed by Unpopular Ventures (seed)”

Founders

What we do

Join the Team

C/C++ Software Engineer (Long project based)

RemoteUA

Remote • UA

Our company

We are Backgammon Galaxy, the biggest backgammon world site in the world. It's a social game where you play for rating points.

Project description

We are looking for a Systems/performance engineer for o ptimization and scalability.

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Software Engineer

ContractNew York, US

Contract • New York, US

Backend Developer

Full-timeBelgrade, RS

Full-time • Belgrade, RS

Frontend Developer

Part-timeAmsterdam, NL

Part-time • Amsterdam, NL

Data Scientist

Full-timeBerlin, DE

Full-time • Berlin, DE

Software Engineer

ContractBerlin, DE

Contract • Berlin, DE

Product Designer

ContractBelgrade, RS

Contract • Belgrade, RS

Languages: C (primarily) and C++ (optional, for test harnesses/bench tooling), plus a small amount of Python for benchmarking automation.
CPU optimization: x86-64 SIMD intrinsics (SSE2/AVX2/FMA; optional AVX-512) via <immintrin.h>; runtime CPU feature dispatch.
Compilers/toolchains: Clang/LLVM and GCC (both), using -O3, LTO , and PGO .
Profiling: Linux perf (+ flamegraph), Valgrind/callgrind ; optional Intel VTune if on Intel hardware.
Correctness/perf testing: GoogleTest/Catch2 (or plain C harness), deterministic regression suite; CI on GitHub Actions (Linux) with benchmark baselines.
Parallelism: POSIX threads / OpenMP (pick one; OpenMP is faster to implement, pthreads gives tighter control).
Build system: CMake (or Meson) plus Ninja; keep Autotools compatibility only if required by upstream.