Real-Time Game Server Programmer, SF Bay Area

About us: a still-stealth start-up with a groundbreaking mobile/gaming platform that will reshape social games/apps. Get in on the ground floor with world-class founders and established technology. If you know us, you what we’ve built since the earliest days of online play.

Your role:

• Writing server-side Java code for an original massively multiplayer mobile online game
• Writing/maintaining testing frameworks (mostly in JavaScript for Node.js) for rapid development and massive scale performance evaluation
• This is a contract position, with potential to join our full-time team

Job Requirements:

• Immediate Availability. Our recent successes (partners and funding) means we need more help immediately!
• San Francisco Bay Area. With live meetings at least weekly, increasing over time.
• Minimum 3 years as a professional Java programmer working on client-server applications in a small, decentralized team.
• Strong Linux/Unix skills: shell scripting, command line tools, server administration, etc.
• Big plus: server-side JavaScript/ECMAScript skills, especially with Node.js
• Big plus: experience with Amazon EC2, and optimizing server features for automatic deployment
• Big plus: previous work with implementing social games, such as taxonomies, economies, abuse mitigation, and social issues
• Big plus: experience with iPhone or Android app development

Please send resume and contact info to jobs@fudcorp.com.