Senior Technical Architect

My Client's India is its largest studio outside USA with 400+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of the biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expect continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design of large scale applications and features & enhancements which reaches millions of players. You should be passionate about players, performance, scalability and holds a very high bar for quality of the game.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Owns technical roadmap, design and review for end-to-end games, ensure design quality and integrity
• Modernizing the tech stack
• Bring tech innovations in the game which will help in growth of the games
• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
• Lead and Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.
• Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.
• Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.
• Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.

Required Skills

• Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development, mobile, desktop or web application development with hands on coding experience covering full stack
• Experience coding in C#, C++, Python, Javascript and SQL
• Working knowledge of mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• A proven foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPS and software design
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Desired Skills

• Experience with mobile development – Android/iOS/Native OR on game engines such as Cocos-2D, Unity or other.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELBs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, terraform etc)
• Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting and server provisioning
• Familiarity with micro service architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience with development tools & integrated build systems: XCode, IntelliJ, Git/Jenkins
• Experience of driving activities, review process to ensure software and product quality.
• Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to smite a challenge—and if a conventional solution does not exist, then innovate as necessary.

What we offer you:

• Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and  RSUs
• Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
• Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
• Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
• Well stocked pantry
• Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Active Employee Resource Groups – Women 
• Frequent employee events
• Additional leave options for most employees
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Casual dress every single day
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!

• 4+ years exp with solid backend/engineering experience.
• Knowledge of data structures and an eye for architecture.
• Solid CS fundamentals, fluent in multi-threaded and asynchronous programming, a strong inclination for architecting at scale.
• Excellent technical design, problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
• Rapid prototyping worked on distributed systems at scale.
• Basic knowledge of SQL as well as NoSQL databases.
• Proficient in Golang, it's design, and concurrency patterns.

About Us: Hoop Konsulting is an IT consulting and software development company focused on delivering custom software solutions to clients globally. Our core values of integrity, trust, respect, hard work, and mutual growth are the foundation of everything we do.  

Job Description: 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in developing complex web applications using the MEAN (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js) stack. As a Senior Developer, you will be responsible for developing, and maintaining web applications, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop, and maintain scalable web applications using the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js). 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. 
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications. 
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs. 
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation. 
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members. 
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies. 
• Mentor and guide junior developers. 

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of experience in web development, with a focus on the MEAN stack. 
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript. 
• Extensive experience with Angular and Node.js. 
• Proficiency with MongoDB and Express.js. 
• Experience with RESTful API design and implementation. 
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks. 
• Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git. 
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills. 
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. 
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies. 

What We Offer: 

• Competitive salary and benefits package. 
• Health and accidental insurance 
• Opportunities for professional growth and development. 
• A collaborative and innovative work environment. 
• A chance to work on exciting and challenging projects with international clients. 

If you are a passionate and experienced MEAN Stack Senior Software Engineer, looking to be a part of a professional, conducive, growth oriented environment,  we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our talented team at Hoop Konsulting! 

• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins plus customizing them.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers

• Experience in at least one of the frameworks   YII / Codeigniter
• Experience in Laravel(Mandatory)
• Good experience in JS, JQuery, AJAX, Angular JS
• Good experience in Html, CSS, Responsive Design.
• Ability to write and consume web services and REST services.
• Knowledge on Developing APIs for Mobile Applications
• Should have excellent communication skill and technical skill
• Extensive OOD (Object-oriented design) / OOP (Object-oriented programming) experience.
• Good knowledge of relational databases (MySQL), version control tools and of developing web services
• Should have good understanding skill and ability to work independently or within a team and lead a team.
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas.
• Knowledge of and experience applying design patterns andimplementing industry best practices required.

Good to Have Skills:

• Knowledge on Server Maintenance
• Knowledge on Amazon AWS

• If you fit the above criteria, send your latest resume along with following information duly filled to us immed at appleinformatics(at)yahoo.com   

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• Proficient with Laravel & Codeignitor Framework 
• Have good database structures and algorithm platform
• Knowledge about OPP, MVC, RESTful
• Knowledge about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, ActiveJS, NodeJS, JQuery is an advantage
• Have experiences using GIT
• Use fluently one of relation database administration: Oracle, MySQL