\nGala\n\nGala is creating entertainment that empowers on the blockchain. Across our family of brands, including Games, Music, Film, and VOX, we're empowering creators and fans to build the future of entertainment.\n\nPowered by talent from around the globe, our fully remote organization believes in making bold moves to create products that have never been seen in the marketplace. Gala was founded by Eric Schiermeyer (gaming legend and co-founder of Zynga) and Michael McCarthy (the Creative Director behind viral gaming hits such as Farmville 2). Since then, Gala has grown to be a leader in Web3 entertainment.\n\nUnder the Gala brand, we have a growing roster of reputable partners across Gaming and Entertainment, including DreamWorks, AMC, and NBCU. Plus, legendary game developers Peter Molyneux and Will Wright and music greats like Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Kings of Leon, and BT.\n\nOur values are based on openness and ownership and the ability to deliver games, experiences, and opportunities to people worldwide. We are breaking down barriers to bring our communities joy, entertainment, and real-world value.\n\nAt Gala, we work remotely with flexibility; we have a great time with our colleagues and love getting things done. While working here, you'll imagine and create new and exciting things for the world to enjoy. Your talents and efforts will improve our audiences' lives in the real world.\n\nAnd this is just the beginningโฆ\nThe Role\n\n\nWe are currently looking for a Lead Engineer for our Poker and potentially more Casino games. The ideal candidate is an engineering leader with extensive experience and creating real time game infrastructures and maintaining them for high usage. This role involves a combination of creating and leading all fronts of engineering - frontend, backend and devops, while also being able to mentor and work with engineers outside of the team and the company. Game development knowledge, mobile game development, a creative hands-on attitude, and an entrepreneurial spirit will create success in this role. This is a heroic opportunity to change the blockchain gaming space while leading our game developers with your hands-on skills and energy.\n\nYou will be a part of a company of super-achievers who work together to bring forth the evolution of entertainment. The ideal candidate has prior game dev experience, excellent people skills, business acumen, and an exemplary work ethic. We want someone with experience and passion for web3, cryptocurrency, and NFTs. We would love someone with a deep passion for games, strong product management skills, and an impressive track record for working in a fast-paced, evolving, creative-minded environment.\nResponsibilities\n\n\n\n\n* Architect, design and implement performant backend services and frontend features for Poker and other casino games along with PMs and UI/UX designers. \n\n* Optimize and refactor existing features to improve usability, scalability and to lower cost.\n\n* Advocate for new technologies and engineering best practices across the team and collaborate with platform teams across the company.\n\n* Perform technical review of other engineersโ work and provide feedback/advice.\n\n* Create documentation and tech plans for new architecture/system designs.\n\n* Establish engineering processes and KPI metrics to ensure game/product quality.\n\n* Coach and manage other engineers.\n\n\n\nEssential Skills and Qualifications\n\n\n\n* Bachelorโs or Masterโs degree in Computer Science (preferred) or a circuit branch of engineering.\n\n* 8+ years of professional experience in software development. Preferably 3+ with games.\n\n* Experience working on mobile development game.\n\n* Deep knowledge of systems that provide highly responsive user experience across 10s of millions of users.\n\n* Deep understanding of algorithms, design patterns, debugging, and performance optimization.\n\n* Strong familiarity and experience using AWS and/or other cloud computing platforms (IaaS, PaaS, Saas)\n\n* Strong experience with container-driven orchestration platforms.\n\n* Experience with typescript and node js-based sync and RESTful service frameworks.\n\n* Experience with database systems (SQL and NoSQL).\n\n* This position will be working cohesively with developers based in India, requiring you to have work hours flexibility to effectively communicate and collaborate. \n\n* Familiarity with mobile and PC game integrations like analytics, marketing, socials, and deep-linking.\n\n* Understanding of blockchain concepts and basics of tokenomics and NFTs.\n\n* Knowledge of a coachable methodology for granular breakdown of engineering tasks along with a tried and true methodology for accurate estimates.\n\n* Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity.\n\n* Self-motivated, stellar work ethic, fun collaborator\n\nExcited by problem-solving\n\n\nFearless\n\n\n\nNice-to-Have Skills and Qualifications\n\n\n\n* Experience working successfully in a remote environment\n\n* Experience working in Unity. \n\n* Experience of scaling a team from 0 to 20+ engineers.\n\n* Experience working on live multiplayer games (social casino games is a plus).\n\n* Experience creating your own startup (ideally a gaming startup) \n\n* Strong work planning / sprint preparation, and time management skills.\n\n* Self-motivated, stellar work ethic, fun collaborator.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n#LI-RD1\n#LI-Remote\n\n \n\nGala is an equal-opportunity employer and adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination.\n\nWe are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.\n\nWe aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.\n\nEmployee Benefits\n\n\n* Competitive Salary\n\n* Flexible Working Hours\n\n* Unlimited PTO\n\n* Fully Remote and Location Independence\n\n* US Based Employees 100% covered for employees (Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance)\n\n* Paid Parental Leave\n\n* Employee Assistance Program and several more\n\n\n\nNEXT STEPS\n\n\nIf you have the experience, passion, and drive to join our team, then please submit a resume by clicking the apply button below!\n\n\n\nGala does not accept unsolicited referrals or resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. We will not consider unsolicited referrals and/or resumes from vendors including, and without limitation, search firms, staffing agencies, fee-based referral services, and recruiting agencies. Gala will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Web3, Music, Cloud, Typescript, Node, Mobile, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n
$57,500 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide
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\nThe opportunity\n\n\nWeโre looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to elevate Chord as the leader in customer data platforms. Youโll join a growing team that is building a platform to empower modern and omnichannel brands with smart technology, unique customer experiences, and insightful data.\n\n\nIn this role, you will be responsible for building Chordโs storefront data SDK, which captures customer behavior on merchantโs ecommerce stores and feeds it into our data warehouse. You will also have an opportunity to expand our data reporting and administration portal, where merchants view key performance metrics necessary to grow their revenue. \n\n\nThis is a perfect opportunity for engineers who thrive on big data problems; using data to generate insights that lead to actions. As an early-stage technology startup, you will have an opportunity to influence the culture and practices of the Engineering team. You will have an instrumental role in the design and implementation of our flagship products. If youโre curious, willing to learn, humble, and a good team player, youโll be at home here at Chord. \n\n\nAs a Full-Stack Engineer, you will be a key member of the Engineering team and will report to the Engineering Manager. You will work in a group with senior and principal engineers responsible for the end-to-end development of Chordโs software products. You will also regularly collaborate with members of our Product and Customer Success teams to contribute to product design and support customers.\n\n\nChord offers advanced technology for modern brands that want amazing customer experiences and unified data without a large engineering team. We like to think of our product as the tech engine for high-velocity e-commerce growth. Backed by top investors, Chord is a SaaS company led by industry veterans, and weโre seeking smart, focused, creative talent to help us realize our vision. \n\n\nOur company is proudly remote-first, distributed across North America. \n\n\n\nAs a Full-Stack Engineer, you will:\n* Design, build, and grow our proprietary storefront data capture SDK.\n* Design, build, and grow our analytics and data management platform.\n* Support projects to launch customers onto Chordโs platforms.\n* Analyze and resolve technical issues that arise during production operations.\n* Contribute to technical design discussions and proposals that improve our team's culture, processes, or architecture.\n* Collaborate within a cross-functional project and operations team to execute product plans and achieve company goals.\n* Learn and practice Chordโs engineering principles through pairing sessions with developers.\n* Support the growth of engineers around you.\n* Contribute to tutorials and documentation that our customers will love using.\n\n\n\nTo be successful in this role, youโll need: \n* A reputation for being inclusive, curious, entrepreneurial, and thoughtful.\n* Proficiency in Javascript and Typescript.\n* Experience working with Node and React/Redux-based frameworks.\n* Skill in authoring and maintaining GraphQL or RESTful-based APIs. \n* Expertise in writing tests with tools such as Jest, Cypress, and React Testing Library.\n* Experience publishing and maintaining JS libraries. \n* Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools like Github, Sentry, and CircleCI.\n\n\n\nBonus points for:\n* Proficiency in Ruby on Rails and common frameworks/integrations such as Solidus, RSpec, FactoryBot.\n* DevOps experience with Heroku, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, RDS).\n* Experience creating metrics and monitors in Datadog.\n* Experience with static website libraries such as Gatsby and NextJS.\n* Skill in building integrations using middleware platforms such as Segment.\n* Background working with payment processors such as Stripe and Braintree.\n* Familiarity with modern CMS systems like Contentful or Sanity. \n* Hands-on experience with complex ecommerce experience is a big plus. \n\n\n\nWorking at Chord, you can expect: \n* An investment in your physical and mental well-being; we offer 100% employee Medical Benefits coverage, with 69% dependant coverage. \n* Flexible PTO; we encourage you to take the time you need to be your best self at work. \n* An onboarding package and annual work from home stipend to ensure you have everything you need to be successful while working remote. \n* Generous Parental Leave with customizable transition back to work program.\n* To make an impact! Weโre an early-stage company, which means there is space to champion ideas, and create and lead initiatives at any level in the Organization. \n* The benefits of working from home, with opportunities to spend quality time with the team at Chord in-person events throughout the year.\n\n\n\n\n$145,000 - $170,500 a yearThis is the expected salary range for US-based employment. \nThis is a full-time, salaried position that includes Equity. We set standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies in our market. This salary range represents the full salary range for the position. The starting base pay offered may vary depending on factors including experience, expertise, market demands, and internal parity. \n\nAbout your application and the interview process\n\n\nChord is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If youโre unsure about your qualifications for this position, we still encourage you to apply. \n\n\nOur interview process for the role begins with an exploratory conversation with the Hiring Manager. After that, weโll invite you to a Zoom session with a range of stakeholders from across our organization. We aim to get to know you and allow you to learn more about our team and product while being respectful of your time. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, React, GraphQL, Testing, DevOps, JavaScript, Node, Ruby, API, Senior, Engineer and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York, New York
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