Your New Role
WB Games Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the WB Games NY Studio. As a Senior Software Engineer at WB Games NY, you will be working primarily on our online game services platform called “Hydra Studio”, in addition to some other internal technologies. You will be responsible for creating complex data processing and presentation tools that integrate tightly with some of the largest franchises in the games industry. You will work as part of a highly talented team of producers, engineers, and business specialists to expand our systems and add value to WB Games’ catalogue of products.
We are looking for candidates with 5+ years of experience as a software engineer and the ability to quickly learn new platforms. We use many different technologies within Hydra, and while we don’t expect you to know them all coming in, we need a candidate who can quickly learn and be proficient with them!
This role may be permanently remote for candidates living in select states within the U.S.
Your Role Responsibilities
Design, implement, and support services that power in-game online services
Collaborate with other engineers to improve supportability, stability, and robustness of custom server software and infrastructure
Lead design initiatives for new features from clients and internal technical debt
Write and review code, develop documentation, and debug problems, live, on very complex systems
Together with the rest of the engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
Iterate and develop test suites to maintain the high quality standards of our code
Qualifications & Experience
5-7 years of experience professionally delivering online technology and backend services
Must be comfortable working in a Linux/Unix environment
Able to read and write software in Python or some other general purpose programming language
Strong experience with databases (NoSQL experience is a plus, since we primarily use MongoDB, RedisDB, and ElasticSearch)
Experience using and creating APIs
Must have excellent communication skills
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment