We're looking for a full time Web Application Developer to assist the shaping and creation of GameSalad’s presence on the web and mobile platforms, as well as work on the publishing and analytics systems. If you have at least moderate experience in developing scalable transactional systems and can think outside the box then let's talk. Even better if you like thinking inside very large boxes! You must be a self-starter that keeps up-to-date with the latest web technologies (HTML5, SproutCore, NoSQL).

Responsibilities:

• Develop with in Ruby on Rails from business rules and specifications
• Develop HTML, CSS, and Javascript from design specifications
• Keep up-to-date on the latest web technologies
• Help ensure gamesalad.com maintains a consistent look and feel across all current modern browsers
• Assist in the consistency of information architecture and user experience design for gamesalad.com

Requirements:

• Smart and motivated
• Experience developing web services APIs
• Experience developing end-user web-based interfaces
• Experience with Ruby/Ruby on Rails
• Knowledge of and experience in Javascript, CSS, HTML, and AJAX
• Understanding of Object Oriented programming principles
• Passion for great user experience
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Good communication (oral and written), interpersonal, organizational, and presentation skills

Preferred:

• Passion for game-creation
• Experience with Linux command line and shell scripting
• Experience with multiple styles of programming languages
• Experience with HTML5 technologies
• Experience with NodeJS
• Experience with Groovy/Grails
• Experience with mobile web development
• PHP experience
• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

GameSalad, Inc. is looking for a Systems Administrator (SA).  This is a senior position working directly with the CTO to manage and advance GameSalad’s best practices around the positioning, monitoring, maintenance and security of our infrastructure. The SA is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, monitoring and maintenance of systems, hardware and software and related infrastructure, which is primarily cloud-based.  If you're looking for an opportunity to help lead the direction of our infrastructure contact us immediately.

Responsibilities:

• Spin up/spin down and provision servers as required
• Monitor/maintain/expand existing infrastructure
• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures
• Work with web and platform teams to assist with architecture on projects
• Assess, develop and implement disaster recovery plan
• Manage appropriate vendor relationships
• Assess current state and work with senior staff to improve existing architecture. Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.

Requirements:

• Smart and motivated
• Senior level SA with a healthy dose of “been there, done that”
• Experience with cloud-based deployments
• Experience with Linux and Windows OS
• Experience with Puppet or similar server configuration tools
• Experience maintaining Ruby on Rails, Postgres, MySQL, Node JS and other standard web technologies
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Good communication (oral and written), interpersonal, organizational, and presentation skills

Preferred:

• Experience with NoSQL, Hadoop and other Big Data analytic packages (big plus)
• Experience with programming languages
• Experience maintaining Groovy/Grails and PHP
• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

GameSalad, Inc. is looking for a Big Data Architect to help us build the next generation of Big Data analytical platform integrating multiple data sources, large and small scale. The Big Data Architect is responsible for the full life cycle of data; designing and building a scalable data infrastructure integrating customer, game and tool data from a variety of sources into an accessible data warehouse, automating the data flow whenever possible, working on methodologies to materialize that data to the appropriate users and working with the various internal teams and partners going forward to integrate their data needs into warehouse. This is a senior position and we're looking for a self-motivated candidate who will work directly with the CTO to help the company develop best practices around its treatment and implementation of analytics and the analytics infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Understand, further define and architect the analytics platform
• Maintain, automate and expand the data architecture and integration points
• Iteratively refine the platform to continually update the speed and accuracy of the incoming analytics
• Wrangle data to provide new materialization of data as required by the business for various initiatives
• Keep up-to-date on the latest analytics technologies and integrate those into the analytics roadmap

Requirements: 

• Senior level data architect with a dose of “been there, done that”; experience architecting large scale analytics platforms
• Hands-on experience with the Hadoop stack: MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, etc.
• Hands-on experience with ETL tools
• Hands-on relational database experience: Postgres, MySQL, etc.
• Knowledge of NoSQL platforms
• Knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Good communication (oral and written), interpersonal, organizational, and presentation skills

Preferred:

• Hands-on experience making production ready Hadoop applications (e.g. administration, configuration management, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning)
• Experience with BI tools and reporting software
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages
• Experience maintaining Ruby/Ruby on Rails and web architecture
• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience