Senior Server Engineer
Engineering | Mountain View, CA | Full Time
Pixelberry Studios is looking for a Senior Server Engineer to help us maintain backend services for our market-leading, award-winning mobile game “Choices”. You’ll be writing and maintaining features alongside the rest of the engineering team, as well as communicating with other departments when necessary. You should have experience as a backend engineer, ideally within the mobile gaming industry.
During the covid pandemic, we work remotely; however, in our post-covid environment we will return to working from home twice a week, therefore we are looking for motivated people who thrive with a high degree of autonomy. We’re based in Mountain View, CA.
Pixelberry Studios is a Top 10 mobile games developer, having created fun, compelling mobile games for over nine years. We’re a division of Nexon, one of the Top 10 largest gaming companies in the world. Our studio is 3-for-3 launching games into the AppStore's Top 25 Grossing chart. Our current game, “Choices” has smashed our wildest expectations, recently breaking into the Top 5. Our vision for success is based around innovative game design, diversity, and putting our players first.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with a small, tight production team to continue and develop successful games
Design, code, unit test, and maintain scalable server codebases and understand client UX
Research new technologies and help architect the technology roadmap
Develop fun, innovative game features played by millions
Maintain a mentoring relationship with some members of your team
Follow and encourage standards around development, code review, testing, and deployment
You want to karate kick technical debt in the chops
Requirements
Computer Science degree, or equivalent work experience
5+ years of Java, C# experience in an enterprise environment
3+ years of database experience (SQL, Dynamo, Neo4J)
Experience with the AWS technologies such as Dynamo, S3, EC2, ELB, SQS, etc.
Solid foundational programming skills (algorithms, data structures, OOP, etc)
Ability to solve cutting-edge technical challenges at scale, with performant solutions
Professional mobile game development experience
A passion for games, and an understanding of how they work
Good communication skills
U.S. work authorization
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- High level of autonomy and freedom.
- Work from home Tuesdays and Thursdays (Pre-Covid)
- Full benefits package (PTO, 401k, Medical, Dental, Vision).
- Free food and snacks, movie nights, and field trips (Pre-Covid)
How This Job is Different
- Feel good about what you do.
- Great environment to grow and makes a difference
- Learn about the business side of mobile games. Our team is very good at what we do.
- Good work/life balance. We are family-friendly and look at things in the long term.
We believe that the unique contributions of all our team is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone’s perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Pixelberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer.