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Senior Software Engineer
1 year ago
Summary
Do you have a passion for developing highly scalable, highly available software that provides key game features to millions of users? Are you eager to work in the fast growing, dynamic, and challenging mobile and social games space?
Pixel United (formally Aristocrat Digital) is looking for a backend engineer to join our team. We are creating Pixel United’s next generation game development kit (NG-GDK). The NG-GDK will encompass software libraries, tools, plugins and process that enable amazing and engaging games. We are using the latest game engine and cloud enabled technologies to enable studios around the world to deliver casual and free to play games to a broad range of platforms.
The next generation team is new, small and focused which means a big opportunity to influence the way games are designed and developed to take Pixel United to the next level.What you'll do
- Be a part of a team of software developers working on a project, ensuring work meets the technical requirements.
- Work with the team in design, coding, testing, researching & analyzing
- Work closely with remote and local software development and QA to refine designs and contribute to the development of the product
- Hands on development, writing software and assisting their team to meet deadlines and improve the quality of the codebase.
- Utilize good development principles, such as test driven development
- Mentor software developers on the development team, through processes such as pair programming and code reviews
- Work with Production to ensure that their product comes in on time and under budget
What we're looking for
- B.Tech. / B.E. / MCA /MTech. in CS/IT/ECE with 5-8 years of experience
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in designing, shipping, and maintaining server-based systems in Linux or Windows environments
- Solid experience working on complex systems or SDKs, ideally with multiple customers
- Experience developing with Unity and Cloud-based hosting environments: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Soft Layer
- Knowledgeable in at least one of the following per area:
- Server frameworks: ASP.NET
- Development languages: C#
- Storage technologies: MySQL, SQL Server, or MongoDB
- Cloud platforms: Google Cloud, AWS, Azure
- Automation and deployment tools
- Continuous integration
- Must have experience with:
- Bug tracking
- Hands-on experience in SVN or GIT, aware of branching, merging etc.
- Strong knowledge of Object Oriented and Design Patterns
- Nice to have experience in:
- Google Cloud experience
- Docker containers - deployment and orchestration mechanisms
- Caching and scalability of infrastructure components
- Preferences
- Prior experience in the mobile/web gaming industry is a plus
- Experience with an Agile development methodology, preferably Scrum
- Prior experience with HTML5 game development framework
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