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Scopely/Los Angeles, CA/Server Engineer
We are looking for a Senior Server Engineer to join our team and work on a huge new title we are releasing this year
What will you be doing?
- Developing server-side features and APIs for Scopely's multi-million user games that generate significant revenue for the company. Examples include matchmaking, tournaments, in-app purchasing conduits, etc
- Our tech stack: Memcached, Redis, an array of AWS services, ElasticCache - etc.
- Employing operational best practices to ensure Scopely's games and services are reliable.
Why Scopely?
- We have landed the rights to some of the most well known titles in the space that we will be developing and launching in the coming year.
- The previous four titles released by Scopely have been consecutive #1 overall titles in the iOS app store. All 5 Scopely releases have been top 5 overall titles.
- While we are a start-up, we are stable and booming with 300% revenue growth last year and on track to grow dramatically in revenue this year.
- The regular tech stuff: equity, free lunch, awesome perks, competitive compensation and medical benefits
Some recent press on us:
http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/23/how-scopely-is-building-a-...
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-05-23-scopely-hir...
http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/04/15/hot-mobile-games-company...
If interested, email me directly at kale@scopely.com.
Not the position for you? Check out our career site
http://www.scopely.com/jobs/