About this Role
At Fandom, this Software Engineer II will be part of our D&D Beyond team. D&D Beyond is the official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition and aims to enhance the D&D experience by making game management easier for players both at the table and between sessions. Players can create, manage, and keep track of characters, as well as browse all of the official rules in the compendium. We’re also giving players the ability to create custom homebrew content to use in the toolset.
Our D&D Beyond team is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Tabletop RPG team at Fandom and work on digital companions for the world’s greatest role-playing games. We are excited to take the next steps in realizing our extensive vision for Tabletop gaming—continuing to bring the most convenience, customization, and captivation to the TRPG community we can.
You Will...
- Write maintainable, high-quality features in a team-based development environment
- Use a shared code base with peer reviews and pull requests
- Write and maintains unit and integration tests
- Assist with improving code integration and deployment processes
- Participate and occasionally lead planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
- Adhere to and improve processes and coding standards
- Create and maintain project documentation
- Work in an environment where you have a direct influence on product and technical decisions
- Learn from and mentor other passionate engineers with diverse skill sets in a collaborative team environment
- Delight millions of D&D players who are eager to use our products
You Have...
- A willingness to seek and provide constructive feedback
- An ability to work with distributed teams in different time zones
- Experience building high quality solutions with modern web technologies such as React/Redux, HTML5, and Sass
- Experience consuming RESTful APIs using industry-standard best practices
- Experience contributing to and consuming NPM libraries, both internal and open source
- Experience writing maintainable, and unit-tested code at scale
- Experience researching and learning new technologies and sharing your knowledge with your peers
Bonus Points if You Have Experience With...
- Running or playing in your own Dungeons and Dragons games.
- JavaScript transpilers (Babel)
- Typescript
- CSS preprocessors (Sass, PostCSS)
- Responsive design
- Cross-browser support
- Feature flags
- Web animations
- Inline SVG
- Creating and maintaining CI/CD build and deploy processes for JavaScript packages and applications
Benefits & Perks
- Stock options
- Training based on business needs
- Flexible working hours
- Open, energetic and fan-focused, international work environment
- Miscellaneous perks such as wellness programs, swag, etc.
About Fandom
Fandom is a global entertainment media brand powered by fan passion. The fan-trusted source in entertainment, Fandom provides a home to explore, contribute to, and celebrate the world of pop culture. Whether looking for in-depth information on favorite fandoms or what’s buzzing in entertainment, Fandom has your pop culture curiosities covered through fan-expert knowledge and carefully curated and fun, original multi-platform content.
Fandom has a global audience of almost 300 million monthly unique users and encompasses over 400,000 fan communities. We currently feature more than 55 million pages of content, inclusive of video. Our Fandom values are:
- We serve a global community.
Connection with our fans, creators, and partners is at our core, and it’s grounded by our active efforts of inclusion. - We build experiences.
We imagine, improve, and deliver solutions. - We bring joy.
We celebrate our fandoms, our teammates, and the work we do.
Fandom is an Equal Opportunity Employer
