Northern California

(pay unspecified)

Location:

Northern California

Job Type:

Permanent, Staff

Project details:

Unannounced Casual/Social/Mobile Projects

Experience & Qualifications:

Leading Social/Casual/Mobile developer in the SF Bay Area is looking for a talented Senior Backend Engineer with a strong computer science background and experience in online, social networking games. You will be responsible for the development of our upcoming titles, as well as internal tools and integration of various 3rd party components. This is a highly visible position; you will work with a team of veteran game developers and your work will be seen across all of Facebook and other social networks.

Responsibilities:

- Responsible for the development of our current and upcoming titles on Facebook.

- Responsible for the development of our cross-game platform.

- Responsible for integration of any required 3rd party components, such as payments, analytics, Facebook API, etc.

- Responsible for development of internal analytics tracking, queries, and tools for viewing and analyzing captured data.

- Responsible for development of internal data entry and content editing tools as required by the producers.

- Advise on selection of technologies for new features or requirements that arise.

- Serve as a resource on matters of architecture, scalability, and performance.

- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

- 5+ years of solid software development experience (game development a plus).

- Experience in Ruby on Rails and MySQL.

- Experience with UNIX systems.

- Experience with modern bug tracking and version control systems.

- Experience scaling data-intensive applications with high concurrent-user load.

- Experience with memcache a plus.

- Familiarity with HTTP protocol and REST architecture.

- Ability to multitask, reprioritize rapidly, and share ownership on an agile team.

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