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QDStaff · 6 days ago

Remote HTML5 Game Developer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$90K/yr - $140K/yr

5+ years exp

QDStaff is North America's leading talent source for award-winning video game companies, and they are seeking a remote mobile slot game software engineer. The role involves creating Slot Game front-end client software, collaborating with QA and delivery teams, and maintaining high code standards while participating in the agile development process.

Computer Games

Responsibilities

Design, code and debug core platform components

Work at all stages of the product lifecycle from requirements capture, through design and implementation to system testing and integration

Increase efficiency through automation, workflow streamlining, and system optimization

Keeping current with new technologies and making recommendations to the team

Collaborate with members of the QA and delivery teams to ensure products are tested, installed and maintained to a high standard

Promote high code standards within the team

Maintain and enhance existing product code

Active participation in agile scrum process

Facilitate and support the agile development process

Set-up, configure and maintain development, testing and staging environments

Detect and resolve performance issues

Excellent Communication Skills

Qualification

JavaScript (ES5)Component-based web appsOO software engineeringModern front-end platformTypeScriptBuild toolsAgile / ScrumCommunicationProblem-solving skillsAdaptability

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Software Development or related field

Commercial experience creating slot games

Comprehensive knowledge of the game development process

Portfolio of previous work that displays an ability to turn ideas into compelling games

Strong communication skills

3+ years of experience in developing component-based web apps and UIs

5+ years of OO software engineering

Expert in all aspects of browser-based JavaScript (ES5) – must be able to speak intelligently about concepts such as “this”, closures, lexical scoping, callbacks, XHR, DOM, global pollution, design patterns

Appreciation of modern ES6 approaches – classes, modules, arrow functions, template literals etc

Appreciation of TypeScript

Expert in at least one modern front-end platform (e.g. Angular, React)

Node/NPM as part of dev workflow

Build tools (webpack, gulp etc.)

Version control