Senior Back End Developer

About us:

• Kwarter develops and publishes Mobile Games for iOS, Android and HTML5.

• We are the makers of Bud light Fan Zone and TBS Social Dugout. Our customers include great brands like Turner, Sony, Bud Light, Budweiser, Corona…

• Our mission is to energize the fast-changing entertainment market. Come help us make entertainment more interactive, fun and social.

About the job:

• We’re seeking talented senior engineers to help build the best mobile games on the planet.

• This is a senior role focused on building the best experience possible for our customers. You’ll be responsible for developing the python backend than powers our iOS, Android and HTML5 SDKs.

• Successful candidates will be strong back-end developers with experience shipping high-profile, user-facing products. Working in large code bases, and engineering features for interactivity, scalability & high availability.

• Successful candidates will also be able to demonstrate deep expertise in one or more of: HTTP, API design, JSON, Python, NoSQL databases (we use Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB and CouchBase)

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product management to define, architect, and build new customer-facing game features.

• Own, operate, and maintain your services in production.

• Tackle some of the most challenging problems in distributed cloud computing, HTTP, API design, and more.

• Write quality, maintainable code with extensive test coverage in a fast-paced professional software engineering environment.

Requirements:

• You ship software fast and frequently.

• A Computer Science degree, or equivalent experience.

• 5 years in industry as a developer working on mission-critical, user-facing systems.

• Strong background in HTTP, distributed systems and python

• Experience with NoSQL, such as Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.

• Passionate. Persistent. Creative. You find clever ways around problems, or just plow through them.

Bonus points:

• Knowledge of an infrastructure automation tool such as Chef or Puppet.

• You’re a gamer and you love sports.

Perks:

• Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision.

• Excellent gear (we Apple computers and big monitors).

• A strong belief in life/work balance.