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Cloudhead Games is seeking a Fullstack Engineer to help propel Pistol Whip’s success in its upcoming updates across multiple platforms.
Cloudhead Games is the veteran VR studio behind Pistol Whip, VR “Game of the Year” winner at DICE 2020, and the fantasy adventure trilogy The Gallery, winner of over 30 awards and nominations including “VR Game of the Year” in 2018. Before Pistol Whip, Cloudhead collaborated with industry-legend Valve to create Aperture Hand Lab, a humorous tech demo set in the Portal universe, for the next-gen Valve Index. Always innovating, Cloudhead Games is also known for its early solutions in VR locomotion/comfort with “Snap Turns” and “Teleportation,” as well as VR motion capture and hand interactions.
As a Fullstack Engineer, you will help us blaze trails through the great possibilities of VR. The successful candidate will have a strong preference for working in a fun and innovative development environment poised for growth. Working closely with the Engineering team, you will help expand our backend systems and web tools while staying up to date on new software technologies. If you have great attention to detail and are looking to join a creative team, consider applying!
Cloudhead Games is a fully remote company working Pacific Time Zone hours.
Responsibilities:
Work closely and collaboratively with the game teams to discover backend needs and drive development
Collaborate and discuss on backend architectural decisions
Work with backend team to manage and improve existing backend services
Collaborate with backend team to help implement strong security and data protection policies
Maintain and improve backend infrastructure
Qualifications:
2+ years of professional industry experience including experience shipping a live-service cloud product as a backend or full stack engineer
Familiarity with common backend (Django, Laravel, etc.) and frontend web development frameworks (Vue, React, Angular, etc.)
Experience with frontend languages including Javascript, Typescript, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap
Experience with backend languages including Python and SQL
Solid experience designing and building backend systems
Excellent problem-solving abilities and proven ability to tackle hard problems in creative ways
Self-motivated individual with experience working on an Agile development team
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Positive attitude with a desire to work in a team environment towards a common goal
Strong ability to estimate workload and meet deadlines
Great interpersonal skills
Nice to have:
Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, or equivalent tools
Experience with GDPR, COPPA, CCPA, etc
Experience with Cyber Security
Implementing and maintaining CI/CD with build tools such as Jenkins, Github, or Plastic
A little bit about us:
We’re an equal opportunity employer! We celebrate our diverse team and support our employees’ career and personal development. We offer professional development funds, and career development planning to support our employees’ overall growth.
We offer a competitive salary and every position at Cloudhead comes with benefits, including extended health and dental coverage (when eligible), as well as extremely generous and flexible time off options.
We want to share our success! We offer profit sharing to all full and part-time employees (when eligible), as our way of saying thank you for helping us get to where we are.
Work culture is important to us, and we’re really proud of what we’ve built! With Studio-wide events, talks, info sessions, bi-weekly company-wide Sync Ups and Happy Hours, we do our best to ensure our team stays connected even while working apart.
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What’s next?
If you think this is an exciting opportunity… apply! We’d love to hear from you!
Due to a small (but completely awesome) recruitment team, only those candidates that qualify will be contacted. Thanks for your interest in Cloudhead and we wish you success in your job search!
