Exploding Kittens is a leading game and entertainment company with a mission to inspire people to connect, laugh, and play fun games in the physical world. After initially seeking to raise $10k through Kickstarter, Exploding Kittens’ campaign raised $8.7M in 30 days from 219,000 backers. To date, Exploding Kittens is the #1 most-backed project in Kickstarter history and the company has sold over 11 million games.
Started by former Xbox game designer Elan Lee and The Oatmeal’s founder Matt Inman, Exploding Kittens and its family of games recreates game night for a humorous and fun person-to-person experience. Today, there are over a dozen games and expansions available for purchase: Exploding Kittens, Bears vs Babies, You’ve Got Crabs, Throw Throw Burrito, On a Scale of One to T-Rex, Poetry for Neanderthals A Game of Cat & Mouth, Tacocat Spelled Backwards, A Little Wordy, as well as mobile app games Kitty Letter and Exploding Kittens, one of the top 30 premium games on both iOS and Android.
The Digital team at Exploding Kittens is responsible for bringing Exploding Kittens games and IP to the video games space. We are looking to hire a Full Stack Game Engineer who can architect and build production-ready game systems and bring our ideas to market. As a key member of our rapidly growing Digital team, you will be working in a fast-paced and highly creative environment and help us bring our vision of exciting and novel games to life on mobile devices, consoles, web, and other platforms.
HOW YOU'LL CONTRIBUTE:
- Architect, implement, and maintain complex game systems with front end and back end components
- Design systems for use by more junior engineers and technical designers
- Set a high bar in the code review process, mentoring other technical staff
- Participate in an agile development process, including estimating effort and risk
- Work with diverse team of designers, artists, engineers, production staff, and company vision leaders to iterate on ideas and bring them to life
WHAT WE NEED:
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Deep experience working in a game engine, e.g., Unity or Unreal; experience developing and shipping games in Unity a plus
- Prior experience with cloud services, e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Familiarity with web design and development, e.g., CSS, HTML5, JS, or React.js
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical team members
- Strong command of Computer Science and linear algebra topics
- A passion for games, both digital and physical
- Must be located in California, Washington, Texas or New York, however California is preferred
- Experience developing games for PC, console and mobile devices along with experience with build, test and deploy automation a plus
WHAT WE OFFER:
- Company paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
- Flexible spending account options (medical, dependent care, transit)
- 401k with company matching
- Flexible paid vacation
- Monthly wellness benefit + complementary wellness subscriptions
- Complimentary lunches on Fridays (where we play games together!)
As an Equal Employment Opportunity employer we are committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunity to applicants and employees regardless of sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), race (including protected hairstyles such as dreadlocks, braids and twists), religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, gender (including gender identity and gender expression and/or the fact that an individual is transgender, transitioning or transitioned), color, ancestry, national origin, possession of a driver’s license, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information/trait/condition, marital or familial status, family care or medical leave status, registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, membership in military reserves, political affiliation, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law or ordinance or regulation We consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local, state and federal “ban the box” and “fair chance” laws.
