Who: Double Down Interactive
Position: JavaScript Developer
Where: Seattle
What: DoubleDown Interactive is a social and mobile game company located in Seattle, WA. Known for our fun and collaborative culture, we’re a group of talented software engineers, game designers, artists, producers, marketers, analytical experts, and more. We move quickly and innovate constantly to deliver exciting online game experiences to players around the world. Our DoubleDown Casino product offers free-to-play, authentic casino-style entertainment to more than six million players monthly. Casino enthusiasts and social gamers alike love our games. As a subsidiary of International Game Technology (NYSE: IGT), we benefit from the expertise and resources of the world’s leading gaming technology company. We’re DoubleDown Interactive and we need more stellar people like you to join our team!
Our team is growing and we are seeking a seasoned Javascript Developer to join our team to build triple-A quality casino games and social features. We’re building a scalable platform, for our non-gambling, virtual currency casino, as well as building multi- and single player games in house. If you are passionate about joining an awesome team to build our large-scale game application, we want to talk with you!
Responsibilities:
– Develop game and feature content using HTML5/JavaScript and other technologies.
– Understand our current strategy, our challenges and our successes.
– Define a vision that makes us better at delivering the right solutions in a timely fashion with high quality and a great user experience.
– Work towards optimization and best practices, increase performance of our application.
– Make the team better — Bring your skills and experience to our team and help us take our game to the next level!
Requirements:
– Strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming, and Design Patterns for Games and Web Applications
– Experience with and passion for JavaScript, including a solid understanding of prototypal inheritance, pseudo classical patterns, and modular JS patterns.
– Proficiency in at least one OOP language like Java, C++, C#, AS3
– 8+ years of development experience
– Computer Science Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
– Familiarity with current generation Javascript frameworks like Google Closure, LimeJS, AngularJS, Backbone, PixieJS, Starling etc.
– Solid Experience with Distributed Version Control (Mercurial) a plus
– Solid Experience in Test, logging, documentation a plus
How: Apply Here
