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Rails Software Engineer at Heyzap in San Francisco, CA
About Us:
- Heyzap is the largest mobile gaming community on Android and iPhone, helping millions of people discover mobile games and connect with friends or fellow gamers.
- Located in the heart of San Francisco, we are funded by top tier investors (Y Combinator and Union Square Ventures) and we have a super fast growing user base.
- In just 6 months, millions of users have downloaded our app and we are growing by over 50% every month.
- Heyzap powers millions of game discoveries every month for our users, with over hundreds of thousands of check-ins per day.
- Heyzap connects millions of game players together every month.
- We are a small, agile team and release code to production continuously. We use kick-ass modern technologies like node.js, MongoDB and Redis, or whatever the appropriate tool is to help us get shit done™.
- We work with the biggest game developers in the industry such as Digital Chocolate (Millionaire City), Pocket Gems (Tap Zoo), Zynga and Get Set Games (Megajump).
About the Job:
Come be part of the early engineering team, pushing the development of our mobile and online gaming platform. We work in the sweet (and challenging) spot where the social web meets gaming. Everything we build has to work at scale and ship fast as we work in one of the hottest and fastest growing markets on the web.
Responsibilities:
- Within the first months of work, you will be shipping features that affect millions of users game experiences on the web and mobile. You will be creating cutting edge internal and developer-facing analytics tool to help analyze millions of game plays on thousands of mobile devices and websites.
- The process will include developing an early understanding of the product, architecting the system and shipping production ready code.
- Write maintainable code fast that can scale, working in a professional software engineering environment.
Requirements:
To apply for the role of Software Engineer, you should have all of the following skills:
- A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
- 2+ Years of engineering experience with Ruby, Python, PHP, or other dynamic language.
- Strong communication and organization skills.
- Can learn new technologies and languages fast
Bonus Points:
- Contributions to open source software projects
- Experience with scaling web software to millions of users
- Unix experience
- Experience with Mysql, Mongodb, Redis and other data stores.
Perks:
- Generous Stock Options.
- 100% covered medical and dental insurance.
- Unlimited Xbox, Wii, Coke, Juices, Coffee, Tea, Snacks and Foosball.
- Powerful box and screen setup with comfy aeron chair
- Unlimited Xbox, Wii, Coke, Orange Juice, Snacks and Foosball.
- An exciting and challenging work environment.
- Book budget and large existing library
- Commuter benefits
- Free lunches (there is such a thing at Heyzap)
- Fun team events
- Unlimited whiteboard access
