Volley (YC W18) | San Francisco | Lead Javascript Engineer / Head of Engineering | ONSITE | Full Time | $120-$150K (+ equity)
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Volley develops voice-controlled games and entertainment for Amazon Alexa and Google Home.
We are the #1 voice-first game company with 10+ titles and exponential month-over-month growth. We've raised from top institutional investors in the gaming industry and we are starting Y Combinator in early January.
We are seeking a Lead Engineer or Head of Engineering to build out game engines and design the backend infrastructure for our games. You will help us conceptualize and build proprietary voice-controlled game engines, scale our infrastructure from hundreds of thousands to millions of users, and manage other engineers in a collaborative small-team environment. Founders are both technical from Harvard and Stanford.
Our software stack includes:
-- AWS Lambda (Node.js)
-- AWS DynamoDB
-- Alexa Skills Kit
-- Google Cloud Functions
-- Firebase
Stuff you may have done before:
-- Game development
-- iOS / Android development
-- Engineering role at a gaming company
-- Engineering role at a consumer software company
-- Engineering management experience
-- AWS experience
-- Serverless Lambda experience
-- Alexa / Google Home / voice interface experience
Check out our top rated games for Alexa:
-- "Song Quiz" (<a href=") - A name-that-tune music trivia game in which you must correctly identify the title and artist of popular songs.
-- "Yes Sire" (<a href=") - A choose-your-own adventure story-driven game set in a medieval castle.
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