Front End Engineer

Description

We are seeking a Front End Engineer to join our high-powered engineering team. Qualified candidates will be accountable in helping develop a world-class tool chain to sit alongside our cutting edge games! This role will work closely with content creators to improve their iteration cycles in addition to writing tools to support the operations of our live titles. Candidates will be able to understand the most commonly used work patterns of our team and create tools that cater to their workflows. This is an opportunity to help define, create, and execute on tool chains and make a large impact.  We believe the greatest productivity multiplier lies within our tool chain!

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Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with developers, designers and customer service in designing and building our suite of web tools for internal and external users.
• Work with game engineers and QA to see projects through, from conception to completion
• Contribute creative ideas and insight for improving usability of our web tools
• Identify tool inefficiencies and drive productive solutions

Requirements:

• Client focused
• BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Experienced in JavaScript, including an understanding of Object Oriented Programming, AJAX, JSON, and object serialization
• Experience writing elegant, readable, maintainable HTML and CSS, as well as experience with HTML5 and CSS3
• Knowledgeable of Javascript frameworks (jQuery, Angular)
• Experience with front end frameworks such as Bootstrap, Foundation
• Productive with minimal supervision
• Self starter, able to identify gaps and provide solutions
• Ability to rapidly prototype a tool and iterate effectively
• A serious attitude about tools and their necessity
• Strong intuition for usability
• Ability to understand malformed requirements at times

Recommended:

• Well adverse in server side scripting languages such as php or python
• Familiarity with a web framework such as CakePHP, Symphony, Django
• Experienced in SQL
• Linux experience

Top Reasons to Join Us:

• Be part of the most innovative mobile gaming company with phenomenal growth opportunities
• Competitive compensation package, bonus initiative plans, 401K, full health benefits, ST/LT insurance and unlimited vacation
• Located in downtown Palo Alto near all the restaurants, bars, and cafes
• Food, snacks, drinks, and lunches/dinners with founders
• Monthly events (offsite mixers, game nights, ice cream socials, etc.), group lunches, holiday party, ping pong table, video games… and more!

About Us: 

Founded in 2008 and based in Palo Alto, California, Machine Zone, Inc. (formerly Addmired, Inc.) is a technology-focused mobile gaming company building the best global real-time hardcore MMOs.  Winner of the 2010 Crunchies Award (TechCrunch), we have had over 50 million downloads and over 15 successful top grossing titles, including previous hits such as iMob, Original Gangstaz, and Global War.  Our current top grossing title, Game Of War – Fire Age, is the #1 Grossing iOS Game in 20 countries and Top 5 Grossing in over 80 countries.  With exploding revenue growth and an unwavering focus on technological innovations, we are always looking for exceptional talents from around the world to help build a great gaming company.  We are a Y-Combinator company that operates profitably with two rounds of funding from Anthos Capital, Baseline Ventures and Menlo Ventures.  

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Refer a Friend:

We rely on your referrals for our success, and to show our appreciation, Machine Zone offers a Referral Bonus Program.  If you refer someone to us for a full-time position and we hire them, you will receive a $1000 referral bonus after 90 days of successful employment. Certain rules, restrictions, and eligibility requirements apply. To make a referral or to learn more about the Referral Bonus Program, please contact us at referralmachinezone.com.

Machine Zone does not accept unsolicited agency resumes.  Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our website, employees or Human Resources.  Machine Zone will not pay fees for unsolicited agency resumes and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes received will be considered property of Machine Zone and will be processed accordingly without fee.