Server Engineer

Job Functions:

• Work with multiple game teams to define and create shared server infrastructure and libraries to facilitate the needs of all teams.
• Help further extend and own the games' common tools framework.
• Stay apprised of and evaluate new technologies and programming practices.
• Identify and refactor problematic areas of codebase.
• Use Git on a daily basis to manage source code.
• Perform code review for fellow engineers.
• Research and utilize third party APIs (Facebook, Upsight, etc).
• Occasional light front end web work with HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
• Mentor junior engineers and assist them with feature development and debugging.
• Participate in on-site interviews with engineering candidates.
   

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Math, Statistics or relevant area or equivalent experience

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience writing and debugging in a dynamically typed language (PHP, Ruby, Python)
• Professional experience working with MySQL or another RDBMS
• Professional experience with modern version control systems like Git and Mercurial
• Strong communication skills

Preferred Experience:

• Social game development

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Experience with statically typed languages like C++, Java, or C#
• Experience with LAMP (Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL)
• Experience working from the command line and using common utilities (grep, tail, etc)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (Couchbase, Memcached, Redis, MongoDB, etc)
• Front end best practices using HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Professional experience working in an Agile/Scrum/XP environment