Senior Software Engineer/Architect (Web)

PlayFirst, the leader in interactive entertainment, publishes emotionally engaging experiences to always delight consumers. PlayFirst's mission is to deliver delightful play for everybody, everyday. By creating compelling story worlds that capture the imagination, PlayFirst teams make quality gaming experiences across popular platforms worldwide including PC, Mac, iPhone, Facebook, and consoles. The company's game portfolio includes world-renowned titles, such as Diner Dash®, Wedding Dash®, Cooking Dash®, Chocolatier®, and Dream Chronicles®. PlayFirst games are available in major retailers and on more than 500 sites in 20 languages.

For more information, visit www.playfirst.com.

Job Description:

If you want to be a leader and make a difference – this is the job for you! You're joining a small but efficient website team. PlayFirst’s website is a cornerstone of our business and you are an integral part of making it successful. You not only execute on core business strategies daily, but also make important decisions every day. You bring a perfect balance between worrying about all the exception cases and getting things done as quickly. You're joining our team because you like the idea of working on the back-end side of things while teaming up with a first-class front-end UI engineer. You enjoy working in an Agile environment where everyone's opinion is considered and we are all working together to make PlayFirst successful.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with a cross-functional team of engineers, producers, graphic designers, and QA to design and innovate cutting-edge features for playfirst.com.
• Design and implement features from concept to completion balancing business needs between quality, scalability, maintainability, performance on one hand versus efficient and speedy implementation on the other.
• Be responsible for the full life-cycle of projects, including requirements design, technical design, task estimation, implementation, automated testing, debugging, and deployment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science.
• 4 or more years experience developing Java based websites.
• Successful previous experience delivering consumer facing scalable web applications.
• Experience designing and building database intensive applications.
• Familiarity with industry standard open source Java technologies such as Ant, JUnit, Lucene, Velocity, etc.
• Passion for community-driven Web 2.0 user experiences.
• Comfortable with software development on Linux/BSD.
• Experience developing applications in a startup environment emphasizing collaborative design and individual responsibility.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Must have current US work authorization.

Preferred:

• Experience with PHP.
• Experience with Struts.
• Experience with Hibernate.
• Experience with Postgresql.
• Strong understanding of front-end web tech: CSS, HTML, and javascript.
• Experience with scripting languages (at least one of perl, python, ruby, php, or lua) and an understanding of their application to web development.
• Experience developing and deploying networked multiplayer games.

Benefits

Core benefits include: health, dental, vision, life/disability, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) and stock options. PlayFirst is located downtown in SOMA right by the financial district (2 blocks from BART) and offers great fringe benefits, including generous paid time off, 10 company holidays, chair massage, snacks, refreshments, and company-wide "playdates" to test each of our games during the development process.

To apply for this position, please email your resume in a standard Word or PDF document to jobs@playfirst.com and please include the exact job title in the subject line as above.