Thursday, April 26, 2012

Job opening - Software Engineer - Game Backend at GREE International, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)

Scalability is king, at Gree we support over 200 million users on our social gaming platform. That's a big time challenge that requires big time engineering. Do you get excited about building high performance services? Do you know what data structures to use, elegant design patterns, clever algorithms, and how to optimizes SQL? Great, so do we! Come join one of the largest mobile social gaming companies in the world. GREE International Inc. is owned by GREE Inc., who offers highly successful social mobile games and is the fastest growing tech company in Japan. With our OpenFeint platform, our ecosystem reaches 200 million of global users, and continues to expand.



What you get to do every day:

You will help build the server side platform that powers our games. Your code will be used by millions of people and won't even break a sweat. You'll add features to our games, optimize algorithms, enhance our API, tune MySQL, and collabor! ate with a talented cross functional team. If you want to have a big impact, you've come to the right place.

What you bring to the role:



  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent

  • Superstar programming skills, we don't care what language, but you should be EXPERT in at least one programming language

  • You can smell a slow query from a mile away

  • You have a drive to use state of the art technologies and the pragmatism to know when to use the tried and true and when to come up with a new solution

  • You thrive in a fast paced start-up environment

  • Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design 


Additional Nice to Haves



  • Experience with LAMP, NoSQl, Node.js

  • Have experience building large, maintainable, well designed software 

  • Have an interesting gith! ub repository

  • Have a passion for and experience ! with TDD and Agile development methodologies



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