Full-Stack Web Game Engineer

Job Description

Join us and work on casual games from the comfort of your own home!

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 which users can seamlessly access across desktop, tablet,
and mobile devices. Our fans and subscribers come to Pogo for our fresh content, daily challenges, great
events, new games, and a live service that provides a great user experience!

About the role
At Pogo, we're looking for a full-stack game engineer to help develop, enhance, and maintain our library
of single player and multiplayer HTML5 games and game servers.

Responsibilities
• Contribute to the maintenance and development of new and current games on the platform
• Implementing and maintaining internal game tools like level editor tools, etc.
• Collaborate with partners to translate requirements into technical design, provide estimates
and identify/communicate risks
• Write high-quality code and participate in design and code reviews to maintain development
standards
• Troubleshoot, reproduce, and propose/devise solutions to complex problems that arise in
the codebase, with peers, and interface with the QA team to help devise testing solutions
• Research and pioneer improvements to existing game and platform codebases

Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/related field, or equivalent training/professional
experience
• 4+ years of work experience in game development
• Proficient with important features of the game, gameplay, 3D spaces / physics, animation
systems, and shaders
• Experience working with game engines such as Unity / Phaser / Cocos Creator
• Proficient with design patterns, algorithms, data structures, design principles and coding
best practices
• Proficient in testing, troubleshooting, and optimizing game performance
• Proficient in JavaScript/ES6+, HTML5, Java or .Net

Nice to haves
• Experience with CSS3,, Node, React, Angular or similar frameworks is a plus

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