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!
