Pocket Pinata Interactive Hiring for Software Engineer 1 (SDE1) at Remote Full Time

You are a passionate gamer who enjoys tinkering with Unity and mobile game programming. You practice Clean Code, you are a big fan of software design patterns, and you are relaxed by reading tech journals and sketching UML diagrams. You are results-driven and detail-oriented and always seek self-improvement.

You also have an interest in network/server microservices development, tinker around 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 a Software Engineer 1 (SDE 1) in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.

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You will: *

• Collaborate with artists, producers, designers and other engineers with nominal technical supervision in an agile development environment
• Assess visual, technical and design specifications and provide timely constructive feedback and reasonably accurate work estimates with nominal technical supervision
• Implement server and client features and systems to spec and on time according to the studio’s code quality and systems security standards with nominal technical supervision
• Proactively gets up-to-speed on assigned game projects with nominal technical supervision
• Troubleshoot and fix easily reproduced 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/or code comments with nominal technical supervision
• Update and expand your technical skills to keep pace with industry developments

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You are a great fit for our team if you have…*

• 2+ years of overall professional software development experience
• 2+ years of Unity 3D experience
• 2+ years of C# programming experience
• Experience developing games for Android/IOS
• Experience with Unity 3D’s build, Input, GUI and 2D systems
• Experience with Git or other revision control system
• Knowledgeable with multithreaded programming and design in .NET
• Knowledgeable with Microservices and REST Web services
• Knowledgeable with database technologies, in particular, relational databases like MySQL
• Knowledgeable in developing Client-Server applications and APIs
• Strong technical problem-solving and communication skills
• Strong cross-discipline collaboration and communication skills
• Knowledgeable in applying Clean Code Principles
• A detail-oriented mindset with a strong ability to multitask
• Proactive, forward-thinking and collaborative with others

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Having the following skills is a plus…*

• Experience shipping games on mobile (Android, IOS)
• Experience with regulated software (Bank compliance)
• Have worked with game engines like Unity
• 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