Join a small, productive team to lead the development of correct, maintainable, high-performance, modern web services to support Highrises ever growing feature set.

What will you be doing?

• Building a completely new web services stack that powers the Highrise client from the ground up
• Developing core libraries and infrastructure supporting high quality, low latency communication between users
• Working closely with the client team to define requirements and make crucial architectural decisionsWhat do you know?

What do you know?

• Significant experience in modern web server technologies (e.g. Akka, Kubernetes, MongoDB)
• Significant knowledge in dev-ops managing production cloud services (e.g. AWS, GCP)
• Deep understanding of concurrency and issues associated with it
• Deep understanding of massively scalable web services

Who are you?

• You have significantly contributed to a production scalable and concurrent web service
• You write idiomatic and extensible code
• You have an owners mentality: you actively step beyond defined roles to improve the product, team, and company
• Youre a fast learner who is not intimidated to learn new technologies and tools
• Youre not afraid to work after-hours when production fires arise
• You know how to communicate well by being both assertive and open to feedback
• You hold your own in a debate over your favorite technology, but youre also open to changing your opinion
• Youre able to work independently in a very small and fast-moving team
• You strive to improve the workflow of your team and company by improving process, helping others, and sharing knowledge

Bonus/Nice to Have

• Active Github Account with Open Source / Stack Overflow Contributions
• Active in your developer community
• Passion in and knowledge of Game Development
• Academic Background in Engineering

Who we are? Highrise is a modern re-imagining of a connected, mobile virtual world with over 2 million users in limited release.