Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Web Engineer - Back End at Valve (Seattle, WA)

Steam is one of the fastest growing multimedia digital distribution platforms in the industry today. A rich web presence and strong web backend are central to the architecture of Steam. The Steam team is seeking senior level engineers who can help design, implement, and ship new features on the web in addition to strengthening the web-based architectural components of the platform.


As a part of our extremely motivated and experienced group of people, you'll work with Valve's game and Steam development teams to add exciting new web-based features to our best-of-breed computer games and pioneering e-commerce platform.


Duties:



  • Regularly ship a variety of products from small internal tools to large-scale web applications used by millions of visitors per week.

  • Directly and meaningfully impact the experience of those players and customers.

  • Develop an understanding of Valve's player community and contribu! te creative web-focused design solutions to improve the experience of using Valve's products.

  • Improve internal visibility of various game- and Steam-related data.

  • Follow through from project inception through design to detailed completion.

  • Iterate on solutions based on internal feedback, plus feedback from publishing partners and customers.

  • Drive the development of end-to-end data management solutions including database schema, database back-up and management, and performance tuning.

  • Participate in design process, gathering requirements with other engineers and designers

  • Create measurable success.

  • Create open and re-usable web application components.

  • Be self-directed and be able to prioritize your own workload.



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