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As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent. We’re searching for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

PERKS & BENEFITS

  • Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays
  • 100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan
  • Life Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More
  • Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens
  • Yoga & Wellness Activities
  • Happy Hours
  • Company Events
  • Dog Friendly

Jam City is searching for the best and brightest Software Engineers to work on a new central technology platform that will support a number of our newest games. We’re looking for a smart, experienced back end services engineer who thrives in an agile environment. Our right fit is someone who enjoys solving problems, understands the nuances of writing back end services that make use of 3rd party SaaS offerings, thrives when learning new technologies, cares about scalability, interacts effectively in a team environment, and takes ownership and pride in the work that they do.

Our company and culture is geared towards producing the best quality games in the world and having fun while we do it. Jam City has a full team of in-house artists, designers, and game developers. Our core technology allows developers to plug into a scalable backend, flexible game frameworks, analytics and cross-platform methodologies. Jam City is growing, profitable, and has offices spread out internationally.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Build and maintain various RESTful services both in Java web applications as well as Node server-less applications to support centralized NFT operations services.
  • Implementation of data query and caching layers for various back end services.
  • Understanding how to build for failure and resiliency when integrating 3rd party services into our back end offerings.
  • Build SDKs for back end services to be integrated by game teams in server to server or client to server architectures.
  • Designing, building, and managing CI and deployment pipelines.
  • Embrace software development best practices such as testing and documentation design patterns, secure coding, algorithmic optimization, and knowledge sharing.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 8+ years of backend programming experience in Java and/or Javascript.
  • Strong background in Microservices architecture, paradigms, and implementation options.
  • Experience implementing RESTful API patterns.
  • Comprehension of Reactive Programming architectures and frameworks (Vert.x, Reactive.x, RxJava, RxJS, React, etc….).
  • Use of messaging frameworks such as Kafka, ActiveMQ, etc.
  • Demonstrated operational experience.
  • Experience integrating multiple 3rd party SaaS solutions into a product.
  • Understanding of scalability concerns.
  • Ability to mentor other teammates in best practices and backend design patterns.

NICE TO HAVE

  • Interest and comprehension of NFT Marketplaces, Blockchain technologies, and Smart Contracts.
  • Experience in containerization and cluster deployment.

CHECK OUT LIFE AS A JAM CITIZEN:

  • Company news and events on our LinkedIn
  • Company Blog
  • Employee Feedback on our Comparably page
  • Find videos on our teams and games on our Youtube

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION

We believe in creating games that unite people across the world and that showcase our commitment to providing an environment that is both inclusive and diverse for our players and employees. We strive to create a workforce that is reflective of our global player community as we know that we are stronger and better when we play together. To help promote an inclusive culture, we celebrate the visible and invisible diversity of our Jam Citizens through initiatives including Employee Resource Groups, cultural events, trainings, speaker series, and more.

Jam City is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, religion, ethnicity, marital, or domestic partnerships status, disability, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws. Our management is committed to following this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruiting, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.

ABOUT JAM CITY

Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.

Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, and COO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.

The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.

Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.