LVL6 (http://lvl6.com) makes mobile games that are fun, social, and interactive. We're planning to make a big dent in the market soon, and we're looking for our first scalability expert to take us there.
If you take pride in your hacking skills and are passionate about best practices and scaling, here's an opportunity to heavily influence the backend infrastructure of the next large social gaming titles on mobile.
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Responsibilities:
- Designing and maintaining a scalable stack capable of delivering a clean and enjoyable user experience to millions
- Design and implement new titles / game features at every level of the stack
- Work closely with other developers in implementing design choices and refactoring the existing codebase
- Monitor several AWS services
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Requirements:
- At least a B.S. in Computer Science or related field
- Expertise with frameworks, fault tolerance, scalability, client-server communications
- Experience building and maintaining multi-server solutions and scalable databases (both relational and NoSQL)
- Experience with cloud solutions, including Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3), as well as other sys-admin type responsibilities
- Preferably comfortable with Java, Memcached, Redis, MySQL
- Up to date with the latest tech / architectures that work
- Background in security/networking is a big plus
- A passion for efficiency, optimization, maintainability, scalability + a love for technology / operations
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If this sounds like you, we'd love to talk. Please email us at jobs@lvl6.com with a little info about yourself.
