At Backflip, our work is all play…..

Founded in 2009 Backflip Studios is a pioneer in mobile games.   Our absurdly fun free to play games have been downloaded more than 300 million times and are played by tens of millions of people each month.  Since DragonVale’s release in 2012, our players have hatched over 1 billion dragons and Backflip Studios remains the only game developer in the world to receive four App Store Editor’s Choice in a single calendar year.  In 2013 Backflip Studios was acquired by Hasbro and this partnership has successfully leveraged Backflip’s mobile expertise and audience and Hasbro’s deep library of intellectual property.

Why Backflip?  - At Backflip we operate in a collaborative work hard play hard environment where you’re surrounded by passionate, dedicated industry professionals fueled by free drinks and snacks. 

• Paid cell phone device and plan
• Company provided ipad
• Paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents
• 6% 401k company match, immediate vesting and an additional 3% annual contribution
• Generous gym membership that can also be used towards a seasonal ski pass
• Paid holiday between Christmas and New Year
• 3 weeks paid vacation plus paid volunteer leave
• Monthly hack day

About the role       You will have a high degree of autonomy in tackling problems within the space of massively scaleable systems.  You will take a TDD approach and apply the principles of SRE to build extremely robust, scaleable and reuseable microservices for client teams.  You'll quickly ramp up on team responsibilities, initiatives and contribute to architectural discussions and decision making.

What you’ll be doing       You'll join the server team comprised of talented and passionate software engineers focused on writing high availability golang microservices for client teams.  Collaborating with game team members and engineers, you'll use golang, Docker and GKE to meet project and studio goals as we develop new, and support existing, games.   This role supports studio wide initiatives and provides an opportunity to mentor less senior engineers.

About you       You have 7 years of prior software engineering experience, fluency in multiple programming languages and experience developing scaleable systems to millions of MAU.  You are proficient in core networking concepts, Infrastructure Services (AWS or GCP), Docker and NoSql and have familiarity with Kubernetes.  You thrive in a collaborative, team focused environment.  Self starting with great communication skills, you work hard to hit deadlines.  It’s a huge plus if you have golang experience and are a passionate mobile game player.