SDE 3

Senior Software Engineer (SDE-3), CentralInfrastructurePocket Gems wants to build the greatest games and interactive entertainment in the world.That’s the mission our founders began within an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009and we continue it today.Pocket Gems has grown to over 250 people in San Francisco. With $155 million in backing fromSequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground with graphically rich mobilegames, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobilefirst Mantis Engine.Our products have been downloaded over 325 million times by players around the world. Wehave several flagship products including the most recent - Adventure Chef Merge Explorer, acasual merge and explore game. Some of our other ongoing hits include Episode, a mobilestorytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategygame.Pocket Gems is home to some of the most massive and delightful mobile-first games, like WarDragons and Episode. Those games need a solid backend platform, to function critical tasks todelight our players, and is supported and optimized by our Central Engineering team. As a Sr.Software Engineer on the Central Infrastructure Team, you will build microservices that acts asthe core of all our games, facilitate the processing and recording of billions of events per day,support critical systems for marketing, finance. You will be responsible for some of our biggestprojects as you build APIs and infrastructure that scales to millions of players in real-timegames.What You’ll Do:• Implement flexible, reusable, and scalable solutions to improve our data pipeline• Develop microservices for critical infrastructure like A/B tests, Offer recommendation, etcthat is mission-critical to the business• Develop microservices for our games such as real-time communication platforms,leaderboard, etc• Build and maintain integrations with third-party APIs that you suggest or write yourself• Build scalable web tools (including open source tools) to support data analysis andvisualization for the company and influence what we build for our games’ playersWhat You Bring to the Central Infrastructure Engineering team:• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience (including 3+ years backend experience)• A degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant field• Experience leading complex projects, preferably involving distributed systems• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Hadoop, and related backend technologies is aplus• Strong skills in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP• A love for delighting users, both internal and external, with reliable tools, data, andcreative and highly technical solutions to their problemsExtra Gems for:• Experience in working with microservices