by Ronald Barron | Nov 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Sony Interactive Entertainment
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
We’re looking for a gameplay programmer who excels at designing and implementing character behavior, controls, and camera for 3rd-person AAA action games. This person will partner with the Game Director to craft an extraordinary player experience for projects like Marvel’s Wolverine — the quintessential Logan! If this is the role you have been looking for, please read on!
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Designs and implements core combat and traversal systems for 3rd-person, character-based games
- Drives the development of innovative player mechanics.
- Works closely with content creators on feature implementation, providing technical, creative, and scheduling feedback; expand and adapt designs to meet project goals
- Builds and improves proprietary tools to expose gameplay features and systems to content creators.
- Solicits feedback from content creators on how to streamline workflow and improve efficiency.
- Provides time estimates to leads and management; keeps co-workers up-to-date on progress of programming work as well as non-programming prerequisites for feature implementation
- Other duties may be assigned
Education and/or Experience:
- Two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, (desired) and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
- Strong 3D math skills, including but not limited to practical knowledge of vectors and vector operations, matrices and matrix transformations, and the various different representations of rotations (Euler, angle-axis, quaternion).
- The basics of intersection testing and collision are a plus.
- Proficient with an application programming language (C and C++)
- Ability to adhere to the prevalent coding style and practices, including source control standards.
- Understanding of procedural and object-oriented programming paradigms.
- Familiarity with commercial content creation packages.
- Familiarity with component-based programming paradigms.
- Desired: Proficiency in a scripting language (Python, Perl, Javascript, etc).
Other Skills:
- Dedication towards individual and team growth.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work in and contribute to a collaborative environment.
- Ability to drive the creation of fun and innovative gameplay.
- Must be flexible with schedule changes and shifting timetables.
- Needs to be able to work independently and efficiently when required. Ability to multitask several time-intensive tasks at once.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: HOMER Learning
HOMER has a newly created opportunity for a Remote Contract HTML5 game developer to join our growing team! This role will be a 4-5 month contract, with possible extension.
HOMER, a BEGiN brand, is the proven early learning program that provides the best educational start possible. We offer personalized, fun, and proven learning products for kids ages 2-8 to help build confidence, mastery, and a love of learning. We are deeply committed to our members and to their children, and we are building a creative and strategic team to develop a portfolio of early learning products that support learning everywhere.
Reporting to an Engineering Manager, the HTML5 Game Developer will primarily contribute to the software design and development of our cross-platform interactive game system and related tools and services. As a member of the Content Engineering team, you will often serve as a technical liaison with content creators (designers, animators, and learning specialists) and other engineering teams.
During this contract at HOMER, you will:
- Develop engaging, interactive experiences for our young audience to learn literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills.
- Work with game framework Phaser.io, and 2D bone-based animation (i.e. Spine) to extend the capabilities of our game platform.
- Make direct technical contributions (writing, debugging, and reviewing code).
- Provide insights and feedback as a game developer specialist to our organization using agile project management methodologies.
- Contribute to technical design and architecture of interactive software, and participate in larger system design efforts.
Must Haves:
- Demonstrable expertise building interactive web-based experiences using WebGL/canvas/JavaScript.
- Experience with Phaser.io. And Spine
- Experience working with Git version control system.
- Familiarity with Mobile WebView technology, its capabilities and limitations.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- At least 3 years of game development experience (or undergraduate degree in Computer Science and 1 year of relevant experience).
We like people who:
- Collaborate effectively with stakeholders and other team members (product managers, UI/UX designers, engineers, animators, illustrators, etc.) to define requirements and then execute on them.
- Have the ability to balance speed to market and elegance in technical design.
- Are passionate about and thrive in a culture of learning and teaching. You love challenging yourself to constantly improve, and sharing your knowledge to empower others.
- Care about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand the root causes so that you can build a complete and long-term solution for the whole ecosystem.
What you’ll get:
- HOMER offers competitive rates
- Smart, passionate, and engaged co-workers.
- The chance to have a big impact, quickly.
- Help bring a love of reading and learning to children globally!
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: mParticle
mParticle is expanding and looking for experienced people managers to join the team! The mParticle data pipeline is a critical extension of infrastructure for some of the biggest brands and their engineering teams, processing and delivering 10+ billion daily requests at low latency.
Are you a leader who takes pride in the growth of their team? Do you enjoy the puzzle of people management just as much as the puzzle of software development? As an engineering manager, you will be responsible for helping our engineers grow and thrive in a fast-paced and cutting edge environment. You’ll help set best practices across your team to drive quality and velocity
Here at mParticle, everyone is equal. We believe strongly in our values and are looking for someone who demonstrates empathy and sincerity to all roles and teammates. Our ideal candidate has a strong balance of technical and people skill and is a proven mentor and technical leader.
If the above sounds interesting, here are some details to help you determine whether this is the right role for you!
Responsibilities
- Drive employee career growth through leadership and mentorship
- Hold regular 1:1’s to deeply understand each engineers’ unique passions and areas for improvement
- Hire incredible engineers to meet the needs of a growing organization
- Improve team happiness and productivity through strong culture and detail-oriented process
- Get involved in solving bugs and shipping small features
Desired Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in one or more general purpose programming languages
- 7+ years of professional hands-on experience developing software
- 3+ years of experience managing software engineers
- Ability to achieve consensus amongst stakeholders
- A proven track record of growing and supporting engineers
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with mobile engineering and open source contribution is a plus
- Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Recount Media
The Role
We are looking for an experienced fullstack engineer to work on our video publishing tools. The Recount team maintains a publishing pipeline built on nodejs, python, google cloud, and reason-react. You’ll build new features for our editorial team, design architecture for new products, and help us maintain a high degree of reliability.
Core Responsibilities
- Build APIs to support our various products
- Work with programmatic video editing and processing
- Work with a variety of technologies to build new features and products
Who You Are
- Experienced in writing and architecting web applications
- You aren’t afraid to learn new things or dip your toe into new areas
- You are outspoken about your opinions on software development
The Recount offers a competitive salary with impressive benefits and great perks portfolio.
Compensation for this role is $165k-$185k + equity
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Veeam Software
Location: MI, IN, KY, TN, GA, FL, OH, NC, SC, WV, VA, PA, DC, CT, NJ, NY, RI, NH, ME, MD, DE, VT
Candidate must reside in EST time zone
- The Content Operations Senior Associate will be an integral part of the Web Operations and Digital Experience Team, owning content writing/editing, maintenance, organization, optimization, and reporting.
- You will work in a cross-functional manner, collaborating with multiple teams including Product Marketing and Demand Gen to optimize web content to increase engagement, conversion rates and overall performance.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally to review and optimize digital content (web copy and assets) based on Veeam Voice, Tone, Style and Brand guidelines
- Define and implement new mechanisms for measuring impact and performance of content, optimize for improvement, and surface insights for content development and prioritization
- Recommend best practices and proactively recognize opportunities to reuse, repackage and optimize content to maximize return on the company’s content investment
- Support conversational marketing (Chat) program to help design, test and implement targeted customer flows throughout the website
- Monitor and analyze the performance of content pieces against KPIs and offer suggestions for improvement
- Maintain governance over web copy and digital assets including ongoing promotions, product collateral and PDFs, web copy, videos, etc. (not an exhaustive list)
- Lead efforts to periodically refresh content to ensure it is accurate and continues to align with our content strategy
- Utilize Jira tool to track and manage cross-functional tasks and projects
Qualifications
- 3+ years of B2B industry experience (IT industry experience, preferred)
- Ability to drive projects from start-to-finish involving multiple stakeholders
- Understanding of digital content lifecycle
- Understanding of customer journey stages
- Experience with data analytics and reporting platforms, i.e.: Google Analytics, SalesForce
- Experience writing, editing and optimizing content/journey for an IT audience
- Experience creating and tracking tickets and projects in request tracking tool (Jira experience a plus)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (strong emphasis on Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint)
- Ability to draw clear insights from complex data sets and create visual presentations to provide actionable takeaways and recommendations for improvements to stakeholders
- Independent self-starter with proven time management and prioritization skills in a dynamic environment
- Curious, creative, and innovative with a desire to continually improve
- Strong team player with ability to successfully collaborate with geographically distributed teams
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, under deadlines
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