Primary Responsibilities
You will join our Software Engineering team, implementing and maintaining a high performance and reliable server infrastructure that will be able to serve several successful games at once. In the course you will work with cutting edge technology. All our hardware is cloud based, our game API is REST based and we are one of the first to adapt to changes in the Facebook API. Our development philosophy is end-to-end driven. You will specify, design, architect, implement and test new functionality for wooga games.
Required skills and experience
- Recent graduate of Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience implementing APIs, preferably REST
- Knowledge of Ruby and Erlang a plus
- Knowledge of mySQL and Redis a plus
- Knowledge of the Facebook API a plus
- Understanding of scalability, systems engineering and SOA
- Good product and design sense
Your Profile
You are a recent graduate of computer science or a related technical field with a good engineering background. You would now like to join a forward thinking company to work on games that will be played by millions of social network users. You have a good product sense, a keen interest in the web 2.0 ecosystem as well as personal initiative. Ideally you have released products (i.e. open source, university projects, apps etc.). Alongside our experienced Engineering team you will work creatively, always looking for the best solution to solve a challenging problem.
Your Benefits
- Being able to bring in own ideas in projects
- Realize projects which will be played by millions of players
- Work at a fast growing company that operates in a very dynamic environment
- Almost no hierarchies and quick decision making processes
- Fast-paced and international environment
- Located in Berlin – Europe’s most exciting city with low cost of living and high quality of life
Working at Wooga
Wooga is the leading European social games developer, based in Berlin. With over 8 million daily active players Wooga has – in a little over three years – become the third largest social game developer on the globe! With colleagues from more than 25 nations we are truly international. All communication is done in English as our games are built for the world to enjoy!