Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Santa Clara, CA

We are actively on the lookout for the best and the brightest – if you are a creative, intelligent, and highly-motivated professional with a burning desire to contribute to our rapidly growing and cutting edge company, then we want to hear from you today!

This unique position is for a skilled Engineer and online game enthusiast. We are looking for a self-starter who can work with minimal supervision. This role will be responsible for server development of a scalable and high traffic web platform and data analysis systems. As an Infrastructure Engineer, the daily tasks are challenging and varied: the ideal candidate will be flexible, innovative, enterprising, and excited to propel our company to the next level.

Job Description Responsibilities

• Participate in design, architecture, development, and maintenance of the Aeria Games platform
• Develop scalable and redundant multi-site web architecture for millions of visitors from around the world
• Manage entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering through documentation and support
• Provide technical expertise in the areas of multi-site, multi-tier application architecture, software design, and implementation

• Experience with distributed, high performance web application in Java, C++, or PHP using Apache/LightTPD server
• Strong experience in web based applications and networking in Linux: LAMP, SEDA, REST, SOA, ACID / BASE, AJAX / Comet, ESB, etc.
• Familiarity with Hadoop, Hive and other M/R or NoSQL systems.
• Excellent SQL database experience, particularly with MySQL
• Amazon AWS experience including: EC2, S3, SQS, EMR, etc.
• Collaborative team-player who works with teams ranging from application developers, integration engineers, QA, and system operations on a daily basis
• General Linux system administration skills
• Strong design and development process
• Very strong verbal communication and technical writing skills
• Self starter, quick learner, and team player excited to tackle new problems
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years experience in development of a large scale system

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