
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

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- Hands-on experience in working with REST APIs & Web Services.
- Good Database design skills - SQL
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- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
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- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
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- End to end experience delivering production ready code with Java8, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and API libraries
- Strong experience with unit and integration testing of the Spring Boot APIs.
- Strong understanding and production experience of RESTful API's and microservice architecture.
- Strong understanding of SQL databases and NoSQL databases and experience with writing abstraction layers to communicate with the databases.
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- Exposure to Kotlin or other JVM programming languages
- Strong understanding and production experience working with Docker container environments
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- More than 5 years of experience in Java programming
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- Good Database knowledge (Oracle/ MySQL)
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scalable, maintainable, unit tested platform. You will be working in a fast-paced, agile, dynamic
work environment that has an immediate business impact.
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● You have 5-7 years of relevant Industry experience.
● You have experience in technically leading a small team of highly motivated engineers,
in guiding them in understanding of requirements, in architecture/design (high level/low
level) of the applications, in best coding and QA practices, in reviewing their software
artefacts.
● You are a rockstar programmer/coder - should be able to convert requirements/design
into code fluently.
● You have a strong concept in design principles, patterns.
● You have good experience in Linux OS.
● You have a solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data
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● BTech, MTech or PhD in Computer Science or related Technical Discipline - preferably
from premier Engineering colleges.
● Good skills to write unit & integration tests with reasonable coverage of code &
interfaces.
NICE TO HAVE
● Knowledge of databases, Cloud, preferably AWS
● Experience in Python, Python frameworks and libraries, and NodeJS.
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About us :
BharatPe was co-founded by Ashneer Grover and Shashvat Nakrani in 2018 with the vision to make financial inclusion a reality for Indian merchants.
BharatPe launched India's first UPI interoperable QR code, first ZERO MDR payment acceptance service, and first UPI payment backed merchant cash advance service.
In 2020, post-Covid, BharatPe also launched India's only ZERO MDR card acceptance terminals - BharatSwipe. Currently serving over 50 lakh merchants across 35 cities, the company has grown business 30x in 2019 and is a leader in UPI offline transactions, having processed 5 crore+ UPI transactions a month (annualized TPV of US$ 5+ Bn).
INVESTORS :
- The company's list of marquee investors includes Beenext, Sequoia, SteadView Capital, Ribbit Capital, Coatue Management LLC, Insight Partners, and Amplo.The company has already facilitated disbursement of over Rs. 500 crores to its merchants since launch.
- Total Funding : $283.5M
- Latest Funding : Series D
- Why Join BharatPe ?
- Quality of work : Our current tech setup is serving us well for now. But, at our pace of growth, we know we will outgrow it soon. So, we are rebuilding our tech stack from scratch. Be it infrastructure as code, containerization and orchestration, event driven microservices, stream processing, or intrusion kill chain, we have a clear roadmap as well as prior experience of building modern state-of-the-art technology architecture. This is an excellent opportunity to build a world class tech setup from scratch and take it to scale.
- High operating freedom : We believe in ownership and accountability rather than command and control. Our teams are structurally empowered to operate with a lot of freedom, with effective mechanisms built within the teams to help with sound yet quick decision making.
- Experimentation and risk taking is encouraged to achieve ambitious goals.
- Competitive compensation.
- Cash and high growth equity.
- We pay good cash and our equity is growing at a very fast pace.
- We have a good team, proven business, and ample capital. Thus, the downside risk is low and upside potential is high.
- We are accelerating full throttle.
- This is the best stage to join a startup.
- Positive culture.
- We believe new ideas can come from everywhere, so we are always on the lookout. Instead of carrot and stick approach, we appeal to internal motivation to excel.
- We are strong team players - we build on each other's strengths and have each other's back in failures.
Requirements :
- Innovative and self-motivated with passion to develop complex and scalable applications.
- 2-5 years of experience in software development with strong focus on algorithms and data structures.
- Strong coding and design skills with prior experience in developing scalable & high availability applications using Core Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate.
- Work experience with Relational databases is required (Primarily MySQL).
- Prior work experience with Non-Relational databases (primarily Redis, MongoDb) is an added plus.
- Strong Analytical and Problem Solving Skills.
- B Tech/BCA from IIT or BE in computer science from a top REC/NIT.

