Software Engineer

Job Description

Full Stack Platform Engineer - Hyderabad

Job Title: Full Stack Platform Engineer

Target Grade: 20

Status: RFT

Hiring Manager: Venkat Chekoddi

Studio/Team: Pogo

Location: Hyderabad

Pogo has been the leader in online casual games since 1998. Featuring a growing library of 60+ titles spanning popular genres like Solitaire, Mahjong, Match 3, and more, Pogo exists to be the best destination for online casual games. We strive to produce high-quality HTML5-powered games with sophisticated metagames and social mechanics, all while working seamlessly across desktop, tablet and mobile. Our fans and subscribers come to Pogo for fresh content, daily challenges, great events, new games, and a live service that delivers!

We are looking for a full stack engineer on Pogo engineering to help develop and maintain features and tools for Pogo platform in Hyderabad.

Role

In this key role, you will report directly to the Associate Technical Director and have a high level of interaction with Pogo engineering team members, development directors and EA central teams. Pogo Engineering manages the Pogo platform that consists of Progressive WebApp and Java Backend deployed on AWS that supports more than 60 HTML5 games. As part of the engineering team, you will help design and implement new features for our end-users, internal tools, automating our processes and troubleshooting large-scale, high-throughput systems

Key Responsibilities (What you will do)
• Develop stable, scalable and efficient code using common software engineering design patterns and paradigms on both front end and back end.
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements for the live platform
• Write high-quality code and participate in design and code reviews to maintain development standards
• Work with partners to translate requirements into technical design and provide estimates.
• Evaluate and make recommendations on technologies and tools that will improve the usability, performance and reliability of our platform

Qualifications (What you know how to do)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience
• 4+ years of experience as a Software Developer
• 2+ years hands-on experience as Full Stack Developer
• Experienced technical leader that is well organized and has ability to lead technical teams
• Proficient in Microservices Architecture / Web Infrastructure / REST / Protobuf / TLS
• Proficient in Java, J2EE/Spring/Spring Boot/GRPC on the backend and
• React/Angular/Progressive WebApp(PWA) on the frontend
• Experience with load testing, troubleshooting, and optimizing performance of web services
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies

Nice To Have
• Experience in game industry is a plus

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3ekpn-18-191-55-91-42 in your application.