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Platform Engineer

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

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 the platform side of our next generation of top-10 cross-platform games. We’re looking for a smart, experienced, back-end engineer, with some game development experience, who thrives in an agile environment. Our right fit is someone who enjoys solving problems, 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 in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Argentina.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design web-based tools that enables our games to easily and effectively monetize user experiences.
• Design and implement robust, highly-scalable services used by millions of users through web and mobile applications.
• Create extensible APIs and SDKs for web, mobile web and native mobile devices.
• Write both server-side and client-side code for the aforementioned.
• Effectively utilize our NoSQL and relational databases.
• Contribute to developing our analytical data platforms, services, systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Identify problems, investigate new approaches and provide software solutions.
• Test, maintain and monitor computer programs and systems.
• Provide internal operational support within functional areas and collaborate across departments throughout the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5-7 years of relevant work experience, including large scale system design experience, with extensive knowledge of UNIX/Linux/CentOS.
• 3-5 years of UX/UI experience with one of the major frameworks (React, Vue, Angular2, etc).
• 3-5 years of programming experience in two or more of the following: Scala, Java, C#, C/C++, Actionscript, Javascript and/or Python with strong OOP skills.
• Strong understanding of Database design (Couchbase, Postgres, Teradata, Redis, and/or MySQL).
• Experience with Akka/Akka HTTP (or other actor-based frameworks).
• Knowledge of technologies such as Spark/Databricks, Kafka, Nifi, Avro, Zookeeper.
• Experience with the AWS ecosystem, EC2, EBS, S3, ALB, CloudFront, DynamoDB.
• Experience with Git, Github, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Gradle, Jira.
• Experience with Jetty and/or nginx.
• Strong background in distributed systems: microservice architectures, OS/kernel, network system design, and large-scale storage systems.
• Experience designing APIs.
• Reasonable knowledge of TCP/IP and network programming.
• Solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, computational complexity theory, and test driven development.
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent years of relevant work experience).
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team dynamic.

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.