Software Enginee

About this Role:

Our engineering teams write scalable backend systems, cross-compilers, JavaScript / TypeScript game APIs and tools, and whatever else it takes to make our game studios efficient at what they do best -- create games. No matter what you work on each day, you will work with the best engineers in the world; we have top talent in every part of our stack. If you thrive in a fast paced and creative environment, this may be the role for you! 

Responsibilities

• Be a key member of a high performing software engineering team.
• Architect and code sophisticated client/server systems for instant gaming.
• Play a critical role in day-to-day coding, performance profiling, optimization, and general troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, and production teams to devise optimal engineering solutions to game requirements.
• Learn from and mentor other engineers on your team.
• Take ownership of your projects to make them the best they can possibly be.
• Provide valuable input on the company’s long-term engineering roadmap and help identify areas of opportunity for improvement.

Some projects that we work on:

• Backend as a service platform for game studios that allows game developers to effortlessly add persistence and multiplayer features for their games.
• Synchronous multiplayer game hosting platform that scales horizontally to any load.
• Common analytics layer to that allows to capture data consistently across games.
• Integration with new and exciting platforms that run instant games.
• Custom tooling framework to allow developers to deploy custom-purpose tools that help games with live ops.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience writing clean, testable, high-quality code and designing highly scalable systems in production.
• Solid familiarity with deployment on cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in software systems design, algorithms, and data structures.
• Ability to interact with peers in a constructive and productive style.
• Familiarity with git, svn, or other VCS.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively on shared projects with designers, artists, testers, product managers, and other developers.
• Strong team player with a positive attitude.

Bonus:

• Expert knowledge of NodeJS and ES6 / TypeScript.
• DevOps experience -- setting up CI/CD environments, orchestrating deployments, creating monitoring dashboards, anything that makes the development process easier, more enjoyable and more accountable.
• Experience in game development and shipped titles