Golang / Go Job: Software Engineer, Python/Go

Software Engineer, Python/Go at GREE International, Inc.

🇺🇸 United States › California › San Francisco   (Posted Jun 27 2014)

About the company
GREE takes gaming to the next level by inviting the entire world to come play. Founded on the belief that a connected world is a better one, we're passionate about bringing players together, using the universal language of fun.
As the global leader in free-to-play, GREE unleashes the power of gaming by taking it mobile and making it social. When you can play what you want, when and where you want, it's even easier to discover new games, face off against friends, and compete for the top spot on leaderboards.

Available for iOS and Android, we make sure fun follows wherever you go.

Job position
Permanent - Remote work is NOT possible
Relocation compensation available

Job description
The GREE Game Studio develops AAA games for the iOS and Android platforms. The Studio builds games natively using the advantages of each operating system. To date, the Studio’s published titles have all been in iTunes top 10 Free-to-Play apps (both in terms of downloads and revenue). Our game portfolio includes: Crime City, Modern War, Kingdom Age, and Monster Quest. We have many new games in production.

THE JOB:

25ms server response time too slow? We agree!

Python server engineer wanted to create responsive, highly available services that will be used by millions of gamers around the world. Build and maintain vertical services that power key components of our studio's games. Some recent services we have created are push notifications, high scores, in-app purchase sales, and player vs player (PvP) battles. We prefer a loosely-coupled RESTful paradigm and like to pick the right tools for the job.

Skills & requirements
- Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in building scalable and high performance services
- Solid experience with Python or Go
- Relational (eg MySQL) or NoSQL (eg MongoDB, redis) DB experience (both is better)
- Extensive experience with web services and RESTful APIs.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design methodologies
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Apply now!