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Software Engineer – Kabam.com Full Stack

Kabam | San Francisco CA 94107 USA | Full Time | Posted: 10/24/2012

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Kabam is the #1 company offering free-to-play core games on mobile, online and on social networks. Kabam’s gross revenues will grow more than 50 percent in 2012 from more than $100 million in 2011. Kabam leads in diversity of platforms for its games, with revenue generated across mobile (both Android and iOS), online and on social networks.


Based in San Francisco with offices in Austin, Beijing and Luxembourg, Kabam merges art and science to deliver entertainment as a service. Kabam delivers deep, crafted experiences for gamers who love competition, strategy, role-playing-games and social gameplay. Kabam is platform agnostic – delivering always-on, always-evolving experiences for gamers no matter where they choose to play.


Kabam believes games should be irresistibly fun to play, so the company measures its success on how often people return to Kabam games and how long they play. Kabam’s games have been praised by the media and industry and, more importantly, Kabam players for their depth of play and social interaction.

Are you a creative self-starter who is passionate about games? We want to meet you!

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Description:

Kabam is becoming a serious force in game publishing and we’re looking for engineers to significantly contribute to that effort.

The Kabam.com site and publishing playform is one of the main factors for Kabam’s success and we need amazing engineers who can work with a dynamic team of artists, product, marketing, analyists and, of course, other engineers.Kabam.com is a very visible property, both externally and internally, and will only become more important as we expand our publishing business. It’s not just games at Kabam, our site and publishing are crucial to our long term success.

As an engineering team we run lean and fast. Our engineers are expected to take part in our culture that expects responsibility and rewards creativity and initiative. You’ll be able to take ownership and contribute to product spec and design in meaningful ways, not just in the implementation. We work as a team based on intelligence, respect and collaboration. No cowboys.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

* Smart people with experience building modern client facing web properties
* 3+ years experience with HTML, CSS, JS. You need to know how to write great CSS, how to put together a page correctly and write solid, clean JS.
* 3+ years experience with any modern programming language (Ruby, Django, Java, PHP, Scala, etc.). Ruby would be best but if not we’ll train you.
* Experience with a modern web or MVC framework. Rails preferred but other certainly considered.
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a cross-functional team.
* Experience with high-traffic, production systems.
* BA/BS preferred.

Check out what is like at Kabam on our Facebook page - Life@Kabam : https://www.facebook.com/LifeatKabam

Keep updated with us and Follow us on Linkedin! : http://www.linkedin.com/company/kabam_206001/careers

Note to Candidates:
Kabam does not accept paper applications at this time and requests that all candidates submit their information online by either applying directly to an open requisition or submitting a general profile.

Note to Placement and other 3rd party Agencies:
Kabam does not accept unsolicited agency resumes sent to our website or to any Kabam employee, and will not incur fees to any third party agency as a result. If there is a need for third party agency assistance, then a representative from the Recruiting team will contact you.

Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
**Successful applicants will be asked to show proof that they can legally work in the U.S**

This job listing originated on Gamasutra.com, the game industry's leader.

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Location San Francisco, CA, 94107, United States
Job Level Mid-Level
Categories Programmer / Engineer
Pref Degree Bachelor's Degree
Work Site On site
Platforms Online Multiplayer,Browser Based Games,Mobile phone

Location Maptop

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Contact Name Kayla Kahl
How to apply Applications are no longer accepted for this job posting.
Primary Phone 650-450-9660
Job Code Softw