Jobs - Senior Web Developer (Applications)
Senior Web Developer
Santa Clara, CA
With a rapidly growing community of over 35 million core players and a deep portfolio of development partners, Aeria Games is a leading destination for free-to-play online multiplayer games. Founded in 2006 and with offices in the US, Germany, and Brazil, Aeria Games publishes and develops high quality online games in nine languages - English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, Turkish and Russian - covering more than 30 countries. The company’s proprietary technology offers strong benefits to both players and developers. Players gain access to a universal gaming destination providing deep, immersive online games accessible from PC, browser, tablet, and smart phones. Developers get a blazingly fast point of entry to the global gaming market via Aeria Games’ specialized platform that enables quick and easy game integration. The company’s diverse portfolio includes highly engaging fantasy MMORPGs, action shooters, anime-style social games, and multiplayer mobile titles.
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 web application development for a high traffic site to serve our community of massively multi-players online gaming (MMOG). As an application developer for millions of gamers, the daily tasks will be constantly challenging. The ideal candidate will be flexible, enthusiastic, innovative, initiative and can transform our site into an online hang out destination.
Job Description Responsibilities
- Design, Develop, and Maintain the online gaming community site with innovative Web 2.0 features
- Participate in entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering through documentation and support
- Provide technical expertise in the areas of web architecture, object-oriented software design, and implementation
- Experience with large scale and high performance web application in PHP, Java, or C++ using Apache/LightTPD Server
- Strong in web based applications and networking in Linux/Unix environments (prefer LAMP experience)
- Excellent SQL and database experience, particularly with MySQL
- Strong in HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Web UI libraries such as Mootools, JQuery, etc.
- Strong design and development process
- Experience with Adobe Flash a plus
- Experience with service oriented architecture (SOA)
- Very strong verbal communication and technical writing skills
- Self starter, quick learner, and team player
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent