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Lion Studios is a mobile games publisher that works with mobile developers to get their games discovered by players around the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lion Studios’ creative and strategy teams utilize their expertise to help game developers break through the noise and grow their businesses. Since launching in 2018, Lion Studios has driven 90% of its games to the Top 10 in the App Store and Google Play and helped drive 16 games to #1 in the US App Store’s Top Free chart. Many of the studio’s games hit the top 10 and the top 20 across both the App Store and Google Play. Collectively, the studio has driven hundreds of millions of downloads. Check out some of our hit releases: Mr. Bullet, Happy Glass, Save the Girl, and Slap Kings.

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

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer you will be wearing many hats. From building marketing tools to help our growth team, as well as leading in the development of a web portal to interface with third party developers, and making games. If you are driven, results focused engineer, looking to work with a fun, collaborative team - we’d love to talk to you!

Responsibilities:

  • Take the lead in building tools to increase the productivity of our business and product teams
  • Build client facing portal to support the submission and integration of games from external developers
  • Collaborate with people in a range of disciplines
  • Clearly communicate challenges and progress to stakeholders
  • Adopt and learn new technologies

Requirements:

  • 5+ years professional experience in software development
  • Solid understanding of Javascript, NodeJS, SQL, C#
  • Adhere to Software Design Patterns, Knowledge of Algorithms, Good at Problem Solving
  • Experience with databases and database programming (MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, etc).
  • Bonus points for data warehouse experience (Snowflake, Redshift)
  • Comfortable understanding and implementing REST APIs, knowledge of AJAX patterns and principles.
  • Experience in Game Programming and Unity Development
  • In-depth knowledge of modern HTML/CSS
  • Strong understanding of web architecture, security, cookies, reverse-proxies
  • Have a solid knowledge of web debugging tools (Firebug or Chrome Developer Console)
  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s in Computer Science or related field.

Nice to Have:

  • Have previously taken complete ownership of a feature or project.
  • A burning desire to create good architecture, and learn about software architecture
  • Desire to learn and grow
  • Have built projects and games in the past you can show us as portfolio work (If you don’t have any you will be asked to do a homework assignment)
  • Previous startup experience
  • Take pride in your work

AppLovin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.