Pixelberry Studios is looking for you, a rockstar - Senior Software Engineer, to assist us advance our backend services for our market-leading, award-winning mobile game “Choices”. You’ll be writing and maintaining features alongside the rest of the engineering team, as well as communicate with other departments when necessary. You should have experience as a backend engineer, preferability within the mobile gaming industry. We all work from home twice a week, so we’re looking for smart, motivated people who thrive around a high degree of autonomy. We’re based in Mountain View, CA, one block away from Caltrain.
Pixelberry Studios is a Top 10 mobile games developer, having created fun, compelling mobile games for over nine years. We’re a division of Nexon, one of the Top 10 largest gaming companies in the world. Our studio is 3-for-3 launching games into the AppStore's Top 25 Grossing chart. Our current game, “Choices” has smashed our wildest expectations, recently breaking into the Top 5. Our vision for success is based around innovative game design, diversity, and putting our players first.
Requirements
- Collaborate with a small, tight production team to develop successful games
- Design, code, and maintain scalable server codebases (Java, AWS, DynamoDB)
- Research new technologies and help architect the technology roadmap
- Develop fun, innovative game features played by millions
- Ability to solve cutting-edge technical challenges at scale
- A passion for games, and an understanding of how they work
Skills and Experience
- Strong understanding of Architecture, Design Patterns and Software Principles
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes)
- Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure and Microservices
- Obsessive about delivering high quality software
- Computer Science degree, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of Java experience in an enterprise platform environment
- Experience with the AWS stack (Dynamo, S3, EC2, ELB, SQS, etc)
- Solid foundational programming skills (algorithms, data structures, OOP, etc)
- Good communication skills
- U.S. work authorization
Extra Credit
- Professional mobile game development experience
- Unity experience
- Understanding of NoSQL database modeling and design
Benefits
- Awesome teammates
- Competitive salary
- High level of autonomy and freedom
- Work from home every Tuesday and Thursday
- Good work/life balance. We’re family-friendly
- Full benefits package (PTO, 401k, Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Easy commute (one block away from CalTrain)
- Free food and snacks, movie nights, and field trips
- Diversity and inclusivity are top values in our games as well as in our team.
- Engineering-led organization. Two of our three founders are engineers, and still code day-to-day. Ideal place to grow your career & skillset among industry veteran engineers
We believe that the unique contributions of all our team is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone’s perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Pixelberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
