Pocket Pinata Interactive Looking for Enterprise Software Engineer 2 – SDE 2 (FT) at Remote Full Time

You are a technologist with oodles of experience with .NET programming, Kubernetes, network / server development and Microservices architecture. You enjoy playing around with Dev Ops technologies like Terraform, Ansible, or Fabric. You are a big fan of software design patterns, enjoy reading the occasional tech journals and sketching out Cloud Architectural diagrams. You are results-driven, detail-oriented and always seek self-improvement.

You also have an interest in gaming, tinkering with multiplayer games programming and are looking for a friendly game studio filled with like-minded individuals with a team who prizes integrity, transparency and personal growth.

Pocket Pinata Interactive is looking for such an individual to join our game development family as an* Intermediate Software Engineer (SDE2)* in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.

You will:

• Proactively collaborate with artists, producers, designers and engineers in an agile development environment.
• Monitor, mentor and direct engineers under your technical supervision to maximize their potential, their efficiency, and their adherence to the studio’s code quality and system security standard.
• Proactively gets up-to-speed on assigned game projects with minimal supervision.
• Proactively gets up-to-speed on assigned work or game systems without supervision.
• Assess visual, technical and design specifications and provide timely constructive feedback and reasonably accurate work estimates with minimal supervision.
• Design and implement features and systems to spec and on time with minimal supervision according to the studio’s code quality and security standards.
• Own the project systems assigned or touched – its technical design and code quality; fix and improve its design and quality so that it’s aligned with the studio’s code quality and system security standards as needed.
• Troubleshoot and fix difficult-to-reproduce and platform-specific technical issues in a reasonable time with minimal supervision.
• Communicate and document technical designs and decisions effectively in verbal or written form, via diagrams, documents, and/ir code comments.
• Update and expand your technical knowledge and skills to stay ahead of industry developments.
• Adhere and promote the studio culture, values, and processes/systems including time and activity tracking.

Project responsibilities include:

• Troubleshoot system issues and formulate solutions which minimizes the risk of side effects.
• Work with client and server software teams to improve performance, scalability, durability and security.
• Actively lead technical discussions and encourage engineers to share opinions and incorporate ideas.
• Actively mentor less senior engineers to help grow their technical and tech management skills.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor other programmers.
• Participate in a rotational on-call program to troubleshoot server impacting issues.

You are a great fit for the position if you have:

• 5+ years of overall professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of .NET programming experience.
• 2+ years of experience operating/developing Server applications and APIs, solving for scale.
• 2+ years of industry experience working with AWS technology.
• Experience with Unity 3D’s build, Input, GUI and 2D systems.
• Knowledgeable on concepts of data oriented programming and design.
• Knowledgeable on multithreaded programming and design in .NET.
• Knowledgeable on typical multi-tier architectures: web services, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage.
• Knowledgeable on software design, Microservices Architecture and REST Web services.
• Knowledgeable with IaaC (infrastructure as code) eg. Terraform.
• Knowledgeable on containerization services (Docker / Kubernetes).
• Knowledgeable on database technologies, in particular relational databases like MySQL, MSSQL, and ORMs like EntityFramework.
• Knowledgeable with authoritative servers and communications (multiplayer gameplay / stock trading).
• Experience with Agile Software Development methodologies & DevOps principles.
• Experience administering and deploying services with CI/CD tools.
• A detail-oriented mindset with a strong ability to multitask.
• Knowledgeable in applying Clean Code Principles.
• A proactive, forward thinking and collaborative with others.

Having the following skills is a plus:

• Experience shipping games on mobile (Android, IOS).
• Experience with regulated software (Bank compliance).
• Core understanding of game development, mechanics and structure.
• Dev Ops experience, specifically with AWS, VMWare and Hashicorp based utilities.
• Experience with Build pipelines and services deployment with Jenkins.
• Familiarity with cloud networking infrastructure setup and management.
• Knowledge of UML.

Job Type: Full-time