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Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

What You Will Do

  • Create documented architectures for testable, scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems and write some of the code

  • Interface with external groups to provide architecture, code feedback, strategy, and direction

  • Mentor other engineers and champion best-practices within the engineering team

  • Work with product managers to gather requirements

  • Reduce technical debt associated with legacy applications through innovation and automation

What you bring

  • Proficiency building event streaming with Java, J2EE and common Java frameworks

  • Skilled with unit and automated testing

  • Experience with multiple SQL and noSQL databases at scale

  • Ability to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences

  • An attitude of achievement when our partners are successful

  • B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent

Bonus items

  • A passion for working in games

  • Solid Golang

  • Jenkins or similar continuous deployment tools

  • Capable with Git or Perforce

  • AWS, GCP and Docker development knowledge

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.