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HitPoint is an award-winning game development company located in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Specializing in a wide range of cutting-edge game development genres and platforms including social, mobile and download, HitPoint has ongoing development partnerships with many major publishers such as Microsoft, BigFish Games, Glu Mobile and WildTangent. We have developed major brand game campaigns for mass market brands including Coke, McDonalds, Axe Body Spray, and many others.

HitPoint is actively developing its first original secret title and is in search of a talented UI engineer to join our development team and help bring our vision to market.

We are looking for an engineer to specialize in development of an ActionScript 3.0-based user interface. We are particularly interested in candidates that are able to work on-site, in our offices in Hatfield, MA either part-time or full-time.

This is a contract position that may be upgraded to a full-time position after a 60-day trial period.

Education: At minimum, a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering is requested.

Experience: – User interface development in Flash. – Team-based software development experience. – Experience successfully developing and shipping a product – Game development/prototype experience.

Essential Skills: – High proficiency in Flash/FlashBuilder/Actionscript 3.0 development. – Web-Development skills including Javascript, HTML/HTML5

Nice to Have Skills: – Unity development experience or comparable 3d engine development experience. – C++, C#, Java or similar modern, object oriented programming languages. – Proficiency with working with MySQL or other databases. – Familiarity working with Java-based web-services and tools: Tomcat, Hibernate,Spring, Maven, etc…

Attitude – We’re looking for hard workers who are competent, creative and know how to have fun.

Please Provide: – an up-to-date resume – A portfolio of projects you have worked on/shipped (preferably games & UI) – Code Samples – Relevant References

Contact Shannon Mardis at smardis at hitpointstudios dot com, or call the studio at (413) 349-4110.