Senior Software Engineer

Why Jawaker

At Jawaker, we're flat by design. We don't like big egos. Everybody can learn, play and collaborate with each other. We appreciate innovation and new ideas, and are always willing to drastically change and adapt to anything that would add value to our players. We encourage learning and knowledge advancement, and require our team to attend conferences, take workshops, and to explore beyond their comfort zone. We also understand that great work deserves great compensation, and as such we offer very competitive packages.

Job Description and Requirements

We’re looking to hire a full-time senior backend engineer to work designing, implementing, and maintaining Jawaker backend services and systems.

Responsibilities:

• Work with minimal guidance on high-impact tasks.
• Provides meaningful feedback and enforcement of coding standards through peer reviews.
• Provides guidance and informal supervision to more junior staff.
• Troubleshoot issues, resolve defects, and improve the live services.

 Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field is typically required. Some roles may prefer a master's degree.
• Proven expertise in building high-available, resilient, scalable, low latency services in distributed architecture.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure.
• Experience building a service from the ground up, driving the design, development, and implementation in order to turn a user's pain-points into simple and elegant solutions.
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used backend services, such as Ruby,  C#, or Java.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot and optimize code.
• Passion for video games.

What We Offer 

• A fun environment focused on learning and ownership
• No bureaucracy, flat hierarchy, and open communication
• Flexible working schedule and work-from-home days
• Best available health insurance, covering spouses and children
• Delicious lunch catering and awesome coffee
• Work with awesome people and impact millions of daily players!
• Free gym access
• Free haircuts
• Nutritionist visits
• Free parking 
• Psychosocial support sessions

If you are an interested candidate, don't hesitate to send us a fresh copy of your resume and a paragraph or two telling us more about yourself, what field of work excites you, and why you are interested in working at Jawaker - through the email: [email protected]