Senior Erlang/OTP Developer (Games) at Spil Games (Full-time)

Our high-availability, fault-tolerant backend systems are serving data for millions of visitors per day and they are used by more than 50 game portals spread globally; more than 2 Petabyte of data is served to the world.

For our multiplayer gaming experience we’re currently developing an Erlang server for gameplays of Flash clients. This new implementation will allow us to scale up and increase end user experience.

The successful candidate would be involved in adjusting and expansion, but also research and innovation of our back-end multi-player game systems. A challenging job which requires a real high potential candidate who wants to be part of one of the most innovative and fast moving online gaming companies worldwide.

The duties of this role include:

• Scalability, scalability, scalability!
• Design a robust, highly scalable concurrent gaming server;
• Responsible for the start-up, design, implementation & delivery of innovative features to our multi-player game systems;
• Responsible for specifying measures to address issues such as scalability and security of large-scale gaming systems;
• Identifying bottlenecks in existing architecture/systems and using new technology to solve it;
• Come up with innovative solutions; and
• Interpreting high-level, architectural requirements into technically implementable specifications.

Your Profile:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar field
• Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in a low/intermediate-level language with highly concurrent, highly scalable systems.
• Experience with writing production-quality software in Erlang/OTP as well as eUnit for unit testing.
• Being to grasp the larger scale in which your application will operate and interact.
• Experienced in the implementation and design of maintainable performance-critical software.
• Good knowledge of SQL and no-SQL databases.
• Experience with Linux, Unix.
• Strong analytical thinker, intellectually curious.
• Preferably experienced in Low-level networking knowledge (i.e. programming TCP sockets, different communication protocols).
• You should have a valid European work permit to apply for this opportunity.

Why Join Spil Games?

Level up your career—be part of a rapidly growing leader in the online gaming industry, where playing games is all part of a day’s work. Spil Games also offers these great benefits:

• A competitive salary and bonus system
• Flexible hours (from 7 AM till 7 PM)
• A pension and collective health insurance plan
• Reimbursement for your daily commute
• Extras, such as a bike plan and canteen
• And, most importantly, training and development programs—because when you grow, we grow with you!

Adventure awaits those up for the challenge. Are you ready to play?

About Spil Games:

Spil Games is an online games publisher scouting the best content from top game developers to entertain the 170 million visitors who play on its sites each month. With over 11 billion gameplays, Spil is the world’s largest independent social-gaming platform. Chances are somebody in your family plays one of our games—every day.

Using cutting-edge technology, Spil selects content specifically tailored to the different interests of its three targeted online-gaming audiences: girls (www.girlsgogames.com), teens (www.agame.com), and family (www.gamesgames.com). Whether it’s on the web, on mobile phones, or on tablets, you'll find Spil Games wherever people are connecting and playing—it’s all part of our mission to unite the world in play.

About Technology:

We write software in the morning and see the world use it the same evening. We do portals, payment solutions, back-end logic, algorithms, performance engineering, scalability, databases, widgets and front-end.

The Agile manifesto is our mantra. We use object-oriented PHP, scalable and powerful Erlang, flexible and logical Python, slick JavaScript, modularized CSS and innovative HTML5. We construct our own tools, from an automated testing framework in Ruby, to a sophisticated deployment system in PHP. See our code in action at: https://github.com/spilgames/repositories.

Oh, one last thing. We do not do Excel. Really.

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