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Form of workFull Stack Web Game Engineer
Pogo has been the leader in online casual games since 1998. Featuring a growing library of 60+ titles spanning popular genres like Solitaire, Mahjong, Match 3, and more, Pogo exists to be the best destination for online casual games. We strive to produce high-quality HTML5-powered games with sophisticated metagames and social mechanics, all while working seamlessly across desktop, tablet and mobile. Our fans and subscribers come to Pogo for fresh content, daily challenges, great events, new games, and a live service that delivers!
We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Web Game Engineer to help develop, enhance, and maintain our library of single player and multiplayer HTML5 games and game servers.
Role:
As a member of the Pogo engineering team, you will help develop, enhance, and maintain our library of single player and multiplayer HTML5 games and game servers. In this key role, you will report directly to the Technical Director and have a high level of interaction with engineering team members, game designers, development directors, producers, and external game development contractors. You are the technical expert on all things games for the Pogo studio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the maintenance and development of new and current games on the platform
- Implementing and maintaining internal game tools like level editor tools, etc.
- Collaborate with partners to translate requirements into technical design, provide estimates and identify/communicate risks
- Write high-quality code and participate in design and code reviews to maintain development standards
- Troubleshoot, reproduce, and propose/devise solutions to complex problems that arise in the codebase, with peers, and interface with the QA team to help devise testing solutions
- Research and pioneer improvements to existing game and platform codebases
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science/related field, or equivalent training/professional experience
- 4+ years of work experience in game development
- Proficient with important features of the game, gameplay, 3D spaces / physics, animation systems, and shaders
- Experience working with game engines such as Unity / Phaser / Cocos Creator
- Proficient with design patterns, algorithms, data structures, design principles and coding best practices
- Proficient in testing, troubleshooting, and optimizing game performance
- Proficient in JavaScript/ES6+, HTML5, Java or .Net
Nice To Have:
- Experience with CSS3, Node, React, Angular or similar frameworks is a plus
