Senior Fullstack Engineer

Here at Playco, we make games that bring the world closer together through play.

As a Full Stack Engineer at Playco, you will play a pivotal role in creating a platform to revolutionize the instant games development industry. Our engineers are generally amazing at something and great at everything else. We write scalable backend systems, cross-compilers, JavaScript / TypeScript game APIs and tools, and whatever else it takes. No matter what you work on each day, you will work with the best engineers in the world; we have top talent in every part of our stack.

The Role

• Be responsible for designing, developing and deploying major game features.
• Own game feature areas from end-­to­-end.
• Be the champion for the user!
• Insist on the highest standards and create functional and engaging features that will delight our users.
• Be part of a tight game development team looking to iterate fast on a fun concept and then building it out.
• Have real input on end-user product.
• Be a key member of a high performing software engineering team.
• Collaborate with design, engineering and production teams to devise optimal engineering solutions to game requirements.
• Hands­ on architect and coder for sophisticated client/server systems for mobile gaming.
• Innovate and iterate on process, systems and technology to deliver world­-class social games.
• Be a leader; Identify and articulate technical and production risks and obstacles, as well as generate solutions!

Desired Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience writing clean, testable, high-quality code and designing highly scalable systems in production.
• Capable of JavaScript + HTML5 to create custom, interactive, user experiences that are enjoyable on all HTML5 browsers.
• Proficient at using script debuggers like Chrome Debugger.
• Solid familiarity with deployment on cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object­-oriented design, algorithms, and data structures.
• Advanced software engineering skills, including the ability to write maintainable and robust code in a popular object oriented language.
• Solid familiarity with analytics and A/B testing in mobile games.
• Familiarity with git, svn or other VCS.
• Self starter, analytical and creative.
• Strong team player with a positive attitude.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively on shared projects with designers, artists, testers, product managers and other developers.

Bonus

• Expert knowledge of NodeJS and ES6 / TypeScript.
• DevOps experience -- setting up CI/CD environments, orchestrating deployments, creating monitoring dashboards, anything that makes the development process easier, more enjoyable and more accountable.
• Experience in game development and shipped titles.