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System Operations & Software Engineer
at HitPoint Inc (Anywhere)
HitPoint is an award-winning game development company located in beautiful Western Massachusetts. Specializing in a wide range of cutting-edge development genres and platforms including social, mobile, and downloadable games, HitPoint has ongoing partnerships with many major publishers including Microsoft, BigFish Games, Glu Mobile and WildTangent . We have developed major brand game campaigns for mass market brands including Coke, McDonald’s, Axe Body Spray, and many others.
Our work culture emphasizes open communication and creativity from all members of our team — if you’ve got a great idea, we want to hear about it. We have an on-site team of 38 people, all of us gamers, all of us excited to come into work every day. If you’ve got the drive and talent to excel in your games-related career, get in touch. We can help bring you to the next level.
Respond via email (hit@hitpointstudios.com) with a resume and/or portfolio, as well as links to your work. Take some time to tell us a bit about yourself. We’d love to see some examples of relevant work you’ve done for products, games, software, and the like, as well as some examples of code you’ve written.
HitPoint Studios is an equal opportunity employer. We offer full-time employees competitive compensation, 100% employer-funded full health and dental coverage, employee stock options, and 401(k) plans with employer matching.
Description:
This position will act as a key liason between HitPoint's game development teams and HitPoint's backend game service technology platform. In this position your key goal will be to provide both software development support and system administration support to game projects as they transition from their development stages to their live stages.
Our titles require the support of highly available, redundant server architectures that can maintain high performance and availability during peak load periods.
Responsibilities:
- Provision and support development, staging and production application environments. Uing Linux servers, MySql and Tomcat based services.
- Develop title-specific, Server-Side Features in collaboration with the development team within Tomcat, using Hibernate, Spring and other java technologies based on the spec & production schedule for products in development.
- Launching, Maintaining and administering Backend services for live products including webservices, caching and databases.
- Overseeing live services and managing needs for scaling, reporting & stability to insure premium quality of service.
- Evaluate software, hardware , services, vendors as needed.
- Contribute to the overall server software and systems strategy.
- Respond to and troubleshoot system outages or server side bugs.
- Implement public, private and hybrid architectures.
Experience
- 3 + years experience developing software & maintaining services for enterprise online services .
- Experience working with web APIs and Rest services such as: Facebook , GraphAPI, Twitter, etc...
- Experience with supporting Continuous Delivery development pipelines
- Automation of serer builds and/or envirionments
- Java app server framework configuration and tool experience (Tomcat, Maven, Nexus, Team City, etc...)
- Rackspace Administration for spinning up new webserververs.
- Akamai Cloud CDN Service Administration
Core (Required) Competencies
- Java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL
- Tomcat, Apache Webserver,
- Maven, MySQL, Linux (ubuntu)
Other Technologies
- JavaScript, Html, C#, Ruby, PHP
- Ant, Eclipse, SVN
- Terracotta
- Windows Server 2008 , Mac OsX
- IIS
This job is for a full-time exempt position at HitPoint Inc. Full-time employees enjoy many benefits including, but not limited to:
- full health and dental insurance
- 401k with matching
- stock options
- access to life and disability insurance
- Paid time off
- Flex holidays
Our work culture emphasizes open communication and creativity from all members of our team — if you’ve got a great idea, we want to hear about it. We have an on-site team of 38 people, all of us gamers, all of us excited to come into work every day. If you’ve got the drive and talent to excel in your games-related career, get in touch. We can help bring you to the next level.
Respond via email (hit@hitpointstudios.com) with a resume and/or portfolio, as well as links to your work. Take some time to tell us a bit about yourself. We’d love to see some examples of relevant work you’ve done for products, games, software, and the like, as well as some examples of code you’ve written.
HitPoint Studios is an equal opportunity employer. We offer full-time employees competitive compensation, 100% employer-funded full health and dental coverage, employee stock options, and 401(k) plans with employer matching.
Description:
This position will act as a key liason between HitPoint's game development teams and HitPoint's backend game service technology platform. In this position your key goal will be to provide both software development support and system administration support to game projects as they transition from their development stages to their live stages.
Our titles require the support of highly available, redundant server architectures that can maintain high performance and availability during peak load periods.
Responsibilities:
- Provision and support development, staging and production application environments. Uing Linux servers, MySql and Tomcat based services.
- Develop title-specific, Server-Side Features in collaboration with the development team within Tomcat, using Hibernate, Spring and other java technologies based on the spec & production schedule for products in development.
- Launching, Maintaining and administering Backend services for live products including webservices, caching and databases.
- Overseeing live services and managing needs for scaling, reporting & stability to insure premium quality of service.
- Evaluate software, hardware , services, vendors as needed.
- Contribute to the overall server software and systems strategy.
- Respond to and troubleshoot system outages or server side bugs.
- Implement public, private and hybrid architectures.
Experience
- 3 + years experience developing software & maintaining services for enterprise online services .
- Experience working with web APIs and Rest services such as: Facebook , GraphAPI, Twitter, etc...
- Experience with supporting Continuous Delivery development pipelines
- Automation of serer builds and/or envirionments
- Java app server framework configuration and tool experience (Tomcat, Maven, Nexus, Team City, etc...)
- Rackspace Administration for spinning up new webserververs.
- Akamai Cloud CDN Service Administration
Core (Required) Competencies
- Java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL
- Tomcat, Apache Webserver,
- Maven, MySQL, Linux (ubuntu)
Other Technologies
- JavaScript, Html, C#, Ruby, PHP
- Ant, Eclipse, SVN
- Terracotta
- Windows Server 2008 , Mac OsX
- IIS
This job is for a full-time exempt position at HitPoint Inc. Full-time employees enjoy many benefits including, but not limited to:
- full health and dental insurance
- 401k with matching
- stock options
- access to life and disability insurance
- Paid time off
- Flex holidays
Published at 24-05-2012
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