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UI Developer
J2Play has the world's most advanced community platform for games that enables web, pc, and mobile game developers to independently build their business on top of the social web. The platform enables game developers to self-publish on social networking sites, engage their users, virally distribute, analyze, and monetize their games.
Responsibilities:
- Working with the Creative Director and the team to refine our social wrapper interface
- Implementing all UI changes using web technologies
Required Skills:
- Experienced at implementing dynamic web interfaces
- Experience at using GWT (Google Web Toolkit), Java, HTML, CSS,
- Understand best UI practices
- Have an eye for Usability
- Hands-on approach to taking care of engineering challenges independently and as part of the team in a speedy manner
- Strong comfort working on an established platform and code base
- Highly motivated and self directed with entrepreneurial spirit
- Interested at working in a dynamic start-up company
- Experienced at working with Games (independently or professionally)
Good Skills to have:
- Intermediate to advanced Photoshop skills
- 3 years of Java experience
- Working with Linux
Software Developer (Java)
J2Play is hiring talented Java developers! Have you got what it takes to empower web, PC, and mobile game developers to reach hundreds of millions of users on the social web? Join J2Play and develop the world's most advanced community platform for games!
Responsibilities:
- Developing client-side and server-side code to improve and extend the J2Play social platform
- Writing high quality code to quickly move features from concept to production
- Assisting third party developers using the J2Play platform to reach the social web with their games
- Contributing to the work atmosphere and company culture of J2Play
Required Skills:
- Computer Science degree or equivalent software industry experience
- Highly proficient Java developer with 2 years of professional experience
- Solid understanding of web development and/or network programming
Good Skills to have:
- Experience with the Google Web Toolkit, Flash, or Windows programming
- Strong sense of usability
- SQL development experience
- Experience developing software for Facebook, OpenSocial, or any major social platform or site
Software Developer (C++)
J2Play has the world's most advanced community platform for games that enables web, pc, and mobile game developers to independently build their business on top of the social web. The platform enables game developers to self-publish on social networking sites, engage their users, virally distribute, analyze, and monetize their games.
Responsibilities:
- Taking ownership of our C++ community toolkit
- Working with the team to develop High Quality API's in C++
- Documenting the API's for external Developers to Use
- Developing simple and easy to use API's to increase uptake of their usage
- Integrating the API's with games to showcase the technology
- Taking developer feedback to improve the toolkit
- Creating an simplified Multiplayer API for PC games
Required Skills:
- 2-5 Years of professional C++ experience or equivalent in personal projects
- Experienced at using Java
- at least 1 year of Experience at Network programming
- Some Java Knowledge
- Hands-on approach to taking care of engineering challenges independently and as part of the team in a speedy manner
- Strong comfort working on an established platform and code base
- Highly motivated and self directed with an entrepreneurial spirit
- Interested at working in a dynamic start-up company
- Experienced at working with Games (independently or professionally)
Good Skills to have:
- Working with Winsock, boost libraries, Xul engine and Mozilla
- Creating multiplayer networked games
- Working with Linux
- Multi-threading
- Knowledge of Client-Sever model
- Technical writing skills
Flash Developer
J2Play has the world's most advanced community platform for games that enables web, pc, and mobile game developers to independently build their business on top of the social web. The platform enables game developers to self-publish on social networking sites, engage their users, virally distribute, analyze, and monetize their games.
Responsibilities:
- Taking ownership of our Flash community toolkit
- Working with the team to develop High Quality API's in Actionscript (2 and 3)
- Documenting the API's for external Developers to Use
- Developing simple and easy to use API's to increase uptake of their usage
- Integrating the API's with games to showcase the technology
- Taking developer feedback to improve the toolkit
- Creating an simplified Multiplayer API for Flash games
Required Skills:
- 3+ Years of professional Actionscript experience or equivalent in personal projects
- Have developed and FINISHED 1-3 Flash Games
- Knowledge of Network programming is a plus
- Hands-on approach to taking care of engineering challenges independently and as part of the team in a speedy manner
- Strong comfort working on an established platform and code base
- Highly motivated and self directed with an entrepreneurial spirit
- Interested at working in a dynamic start-up company
- Experienced at working with Games (independently or professionally)
Good Skills to have:
- Writing Multiplayer and or networked Flash Games
- Technical writing skills to document API's and write Tutorials
Software Engineer (Platform Developer and Build Manager)
J2Play has the world's most advanced community platform for games that enables web, pc, and mobile game developers to independently build their business on top of the social web. The platform enables game developers to self-publish on social networking sites, engage their users, virally distribute, analyze, and monetize their games.
Responsibilities:
- Working with our core platform team to enhance and architect platform features
- Manage deploy and maintain our builds
- Developing highly flexible and scalable core technologies
Required Skills:
- 4+ Years of professional software development experience or equivalent in personal projects
- Really high analytical skills
- Highly Skilled at Java, Jetty, javascript, Bash scripting
- Well veresed in ANT
- Linux Expert
- Experienced at using LAMP stack (linux, apache, mysql, PHP)
- Working with source control, subversion, SVN, CVS,
- Hands-on approach to taking care of engineering challenges independently and as part of the team in a speedy manner
- Strong comfort working on an established platform and code base
- Highly motivated and self directed with an entrepreneurial spirit
- Interested at working in a dynamic start-up company
Good Skills to have:
- Experienced at working with Games (independently or professionally)
- Working on community building tools
- HTML knowledge
- Experienced at Network programming
- Knowledge of tomcat
- MUST NOT KNOW perl, python, or Ruby on rails :)