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Senior Website Engineer, Services and Platform

We're looking for a Website Engineer to join our team, which collaborates remotely from around the world. Our members range from industry newcomers to experts with 15+ years of experience. Team members come from a diverse set of backgrounds, but share a common passion for building polished player-focused, community-powered games.

At Hypixel Studios we are looking for applicants that are demonstrably passionate about their hobbies, have the drive and commitment to deliver results with minimal supervision, have international-level professional competency in their skill sets, and can demonstrate involvement with other interesting projects throughout their lives.

The ideal candidate for our Services and Platform team will create and maintain web frontends and collaborate on UI projects. You will be responsible for Hypixel Studio’s online web presence and work on related features.

Who you are:

• You are a Website Engineer, Web Developer or Web Frontend Engineer
• You are an excellent communicator and are passionate about working across disciplines to advocate for your craft
• You are passionate about building and maintaining beautiful and accessible frontends
• You are a problem solver, self-motivated and strive to create a consistent user experience
• You approach Engineering not only creatively, but with data and research as part of your arsenal
• You continuously want to learn and not afraid to dig deep into new technologies

Some of your role:

• Work with artists, designers, producers to create web service frontends
• Develop new features and maintain hytale.com and hypixelstudios.com
• Writing and maintaining technical design documents
• Continuously improve SEO across the Studio’s online presence
• Collaborating on game client and other UI projects
• Work with and support the rest of the studio in your area of expertise

Why are you senior:

• You are knowledgeable in all aspects of what it takes for large scale end to end web development projects
• You lead the breaking down and execution of multi-month efforts
• You are a champion of mature engineering principle
• You collaborate with other teams to achieve studio level goals

Essential Traits:

• Tracked experience of building and maintaining production-quality web services
• Experience in relevant technologies such as HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript and TypeScript
• Knowledge of SEO and accessibility practices
• Knowledge of image editing and relevant tools
• Experience working closely with designers
• Ambitious and collaborative with excellent communication skills
• High energy and leadership skills
• Passionate about games and gaming

Bonus Traits:

• Knowledge of the Block Element Modifiers standard
• Experience in relevant technologies such as Express, Vue and Nuxt frameworks; MySQL, MongoDB; NodeJS, Java; Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience building client-side frontends and using UI frameworks
• Experience shipping titles in related position
• Experience working in dockerized environments such as Kubernetes
• Experience working with CloudFlare

We can offer:

• A chance to work on a new game project with an extremely motivated team
• Opportunities to learn and grow personally and professionally
• A stable and secure work environment
• The ability to work remotely