Tezpur University

Senior Software Engineer (SDE-3), Central
Infrastructure
Pocket Gems wants to build the greatest games and interactive entertainment in the world.
That’s the mission our founders began within an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009
and we continue it today.
Pocket Gems has grown to over 250 people in San Francisco. With $155 million in backing from
Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground with graphically rich mobile
games, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobilefirst Mantis Engine.
Our products have been downloaded over 325 million times by players around the world. We
have several flagship products including the most recent - Adventure Chef Merge Explorer, a
casual merge and explore game. Some of our other ongoing hits include Episode, a mobile
storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy
game.
Pocket Gems is home to some of the most massive and delightful mobile-first games, like War
Dragons and Episode. Those games need a solid backend platform, to function critical tasks to
delight our players, and is supported and optimized by our Central Engineering team. As a Sr.
Software Engineer on the Central Infrastructure Team, you will build microservices that acts as
the core of all our games, facilitate the processing and recording of billions of events per day,
support critical systems for marketing, finance. You will be responsible for some of our biggest
projects as you build APIs and infrastructure that scales to millions of players in real-time
games.
What You’ll Do:
• Implement flexible, reusable, and scalable solutions to improve our data pipeline
• Develop microservices for critical infrastructure like A/B tests, Offer recommendation, etc
that is mission-critical to the business
• Develop microservices for our games such as real-time communication platforms,
leaderboard, etc
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party APIs that you suggest or write yourself
• Build scalable web tools (including open source tools) to support data analysis and
visualization for the company and influence what we build for our games’ players
What You Bring to the Central Infrastructure Engineering team:
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience (including 3+ years backend experience)
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
• Experience leading complex projects, preferably involving distributed systems
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Hadoop, and related backend technologies is a
plus
• Strong skills in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP
• A love for delighting users, both internal and external, with reliable tools, data, and
creative and highly technical solutions to their problems
Extra Gems for:
• Experience in working with microservices

Responsibilities:

• Acting as an entrepreneur - taking ownership the problem statement end-to-end.

• Delivering direct value to the customer - and not just stop with internal delivery.

• Lead a diverse team of High performing Engineers - who set new standards everyday.

• Be a great engineer yourself - to be able to hire, mentor, and grow the engineering team.

• Estimate, plan, divide and conquer customer problem statements - through sturdily developed & performant technical solutions.

• Handle multiple competing priorities and ambiguity - all in a fast-paced, high growth environment.

 

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience as an engineer or a lead - solving real world customer problems.

• 1-4 years of experience as a manager - having led high value delivering engineering teams.

• BE / B. Tech /M. Tech from a premier institute - preferably in Computer Science.

• Proven track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams.

• The ability to convince, negotiate and work with equally competent and smart stakeholders.

• Experience building complex technical solutions - highly scalable service-oriented architectures, distributed cloud-based systems - which power our FinTech products.

• Proven ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders.