Hello,
I am an industry veteran who recently founded my own video game startup. We are working on FaceBook games and believe that we have the recipe for success; team, idea, passion. The company is pre-funded, so we are not able to offer salaries, however, we can do a profit share. We have 16 volunteers now and our first title is at Alpha. We are looking for an energetic, driven, and creative Backend Web Developer to join our growing team! You'll be responsible for owning the development and architecture of both our up-and-coming as well as existing current games, and also contibute your ideas to drive future game direction. This could become a permanent position for the right person pending funding/revenue.
We are committed to developing high quality casual and multi player games! Come join us ... we're having a blast!
Email jobs@purebang.com if you are interested.
Responsibilities:
The best candidate will have solid experience developing web applications utilizing Web 2.0 technologies. Facebook platform and scaling experience is a huge plus. You will be joining a team that is committed to working on high quality code in a PHP/LAMP environment.
You must be able to write coherent, organized code and be comfortable working on a complicated code-base with high levels of abstraction. You will:
• Provide technology services to multiple game teams
• Be responsible for the integration between games and social network platforms
• Create tools on the back-end for our games
• Assist in the development of new features for our games
• Maintain our games to ensure a quality experience for our customers
• Roll out new, backwards compatible features, bugfixes and performance enhancements without causing downtime.
• Maintain test frameworks to ensure stability.
• Profile web and API servers to find and remove performance bottlenecks.
• Evaluate and take advantage of third party scalability and performance solutions.
Required Skills:
• 2+ years of professional experience in full cycle web application development (i.e. experience with both backend, frontend and platform integration)
• 3 or more years working on PHP projects
• Passion for software development and Object Oriented Design
• Healthy analytical and problem solving skills, with attention to detail
• A desire to learn, excel, and contribute as part of a team to build products that have the potential to reach hundreds of thousands of users daily
• Familiarity with all of the following: Linux, Apache, MySQL
• Experience with version control systems such as Subversion or CVS a must
Nice to Have:
• Strong Facebook platform experience
• Comfortable working with huge data sets and massively high concurrent-user load
• Experience with memchache a plus
• Experience with sharding and/or sharded databases a plus
• Experience working with Javascript, HTML, CSS, and/or MySQL a huge plus
• Flash/ActionScript 3 knowledge is a plus
• Recent industry experience in a fast paced environment with short project deadlines (e.g. startup, service, marketing environments)
Email jobs@purebang.com if you are interested.
Need Backend developer for Facebook game
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