About Bunch
Bunch is a party app for multiplayer games! It's like playing a Nintendo game with friends on the same couch or a throwing a LAN party - on your phone. We are bringing people together through the games they love, anytime - anywhere.
Bunch raised over $28M from top investors like General Catalyst, London Venture Partners and some of the top makers of video games in the world including Electronic Arts, Krafton (PUBG), Take Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Supercell, Riot Games, Miniclip, Tencent and more.
You can check out the Bunch app on iOS and Android on: bunch.live; and learn more about our company and culture at join.bunch.live
About the Role
We're looking for an outstanding Production Engineer to join our team. The role is a hybrid between software and systems engineering; it keeps Bunch running smoothly and scaling efficiently. You will be working on infrastructure components like our caching infrastructure, load balancing, and deployment systems, the Production Engineering team keeps Bunch running.
This is a unique opportunity for someone looking to join a small team working on a fast growing consumer product; and make an impact. We are a talented team that likes to move fast, we are on a mission to build a lasting internet company and we like to have fun along the way.
We work with React-native, Node.js, Redis, GCP, Firebase, Redux.
What you will do
- Implement backend services to support our rapidly growing network
- Own services from design to launch and beyond
- Evaluate trade-offs to iterate quickly while not compromising on stability and quality
- Continually improve app performance while also maintaining excellent code quality
- Define and implement software that Bunch uses to build and manage its infrastructure and data centers
- Architect efficient and reusable back-end as well as front-end systems depending on the problem you are solving for
- Stay hands-on and keep your thirst for writing code quenched every day
- You are a builder and you keep software running, and respond to service incidents
- <your ideas here>: We love new ideas, so bring them!
Requirements:
- 7 years of experience building high-quality mobile or web applications
- Have a passion for well designed products
- Experience with TypeScript and modern Javascript frameworks like node.js
- Can collaborate with technical and non-technical staff, including designers
- Have a passion for usability, user experience and an empathetic approach to building software
- Solid empathy & interpersonal skills for building a shared vision around your work
Bonus points if you:
- Have experience leading a small team and taking a product from idea to a shippable state and monitoring the success of the product once in the wild
- Love to play Jackbox, Werewolf, Avalon, Heads Up or any other fun board/social game
- Are familiar with popular video chat or community applications
- You have experience with agile software development practices, and have participated in product roadmaps and development sprints before.
Working at Bunch comes with:
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision plans
- Flexible vacation days
- Outfit your home office with the gear you need to work effectively
- Regular team retreats (...to be continued post-covid)
- Regular game nights and other fun activities (... in the mean time)
Location
- In normal times, we have an office in downtown Toronto. In these slightly less-than-normal times, we're an entirely remote company. We can help you to outfit your home office with all the gear and tools you need. We expect to return to the office when it's safe.
We believe excellence is impossible without diversity, and would love to hear from women, men, non-binary, trans, parents, non-parents, and people of all ages, ethnicities and sexual orientations — especially you.