Pocket Gems seeks to build the greatest games and most compelling interactive entertainment in the world. That’s the mission our founders began with in an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009 and it continues to inspire us today. Since then, we’ve grown to over 200 people in San Francisco, and with $155 million in backing from Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground in mobile entertainment.
Our products have been downloaded over 450 million times by players around the world. In recent years, we’ve launched Episode, a mobile storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy game. As our community of players continues to grow, we’re committed to building diverse and inclusive environments across our teams, and in our games.
To date, there have been over 7 billion episodes viewed on Episode, which is over 97,000 years of combined viewing time. We’ve also opened up our storytelling platform to create the world’s largest community of interactive stories and storytellers, with over 12 million registered creators including award-winning screenwriters and published novelists. Episode creates a platform for its readers and authors to tell their story, with an art, story, and character library that reflects the diversity of the players that love us.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Episode, you’ll pioneer the next generation of mobile storytelling, tools, and features, with rapid release cycles that will make an immediate impact. We’re a very collaborative team, focused on deeply understanding our millions of users in order to consistently surprise and delight them.
What You’ll Do
- Design and code innovative, scalable, and robust features
- Balance the technical and product roadmaps within the team
- Collaborate closely in a small, nimble, cross-functional team with creatives in an iterative agile environment, providing (and receiving) regular feedback to/from product managers, artists, writers, engineers, and designers
- Participate in all aspects of the project life-cycle, from ideation to specification to release
What You Bring To Engineering Team
- 2-3+ years of engineering experience,
- Strong team building and empowering skills; you love building and mentoring scalable and high-performing teams of engineers at all levels
- Fluent in Objective C or C++
- Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages and familiarity with cloud platforms (GAE, AWS)
- Strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design and OOP
- A love for gaming development and/or storytelling
- BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Extra Gems For
- Prior entertainment or gaming industry experience
- React or AngularJS experience
- Extra interest in building and playing narrative games or interactive stories
Pocket Gems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
