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AppLovin’s leading marketing software provides mobile app developers a powerful set of solutions to grow their mobile apps. AppLovin’s technology platform enables developers to market, monetize, analyze and publish their apps. The company’s first-party content includes over 200+ popular, engaging apps and its technology brings that content to millions of users around the world. AppLovin is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with several offices globally.

AppLovin is a Certified Great Place to Work, one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces and a recipient of the 2019 Glassdoor Top CEO employee’s choice award. The San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal awarded AppLovin one of the Bay Area’s Best Places to Work in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and the Workplace Wellness Award in 2019 which recognizes businesses that are leaders in improving worker well-being.

We are seeking a senior full stack engineer with a game development background. The locations of hiring interest are western Europe or Central / South America. The candidate should be fluent in English with Spanish proficiency being optional but desired. The game that is being worked on has tens of millions of daily active users, and the work will entail creating new game modes, new UI screens, and new features. The ideal candidate would know how to use multiple game frameworks and be comfortable learning new ones.

All current game development is using a language called Monkey X, which is a cross platform reimagining of the BASIC programming language (with object oriented programming support). The server for these games is currently written in Python using App Engine, so it would be ideal to have some experience with server development and an understanding of standard practices in game server architecture. Knowledge of caching layers, queues, rest web services and JSON are desired.

Responsibilities

  • Learn Monkey X and integrate your existing game development knowledge into the codebase.
  • Help develop server features using Python 2.5 on Google App Engine.
  • Help mentor and direct other developers on the team
  • Become the right hand of the lead developer and offer assistance as needed

Requirements

  • Unity, Cocos2d, Flixel, Arcade, Pygame, Phaser, or other game framework experience.
  • The ability and comfort to learn new languages and frameworks quickly
  • At least one shipped game, portfolios of games welcome
  • C#, Java, VB.NET, Objective C, C++, or other object oriented programming language and OOP experience strongly required.
  • Knowledge of Design Patterns
  • Python, nodeJS, or other server based programming experience
  • Dev ops experience setting up servers and understanding general server architecture
  • Redis, Memcached, or other caching systems experience
  • Comfortable with linux shell navigation and docker containers

AppLovin is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.