[Hiring] Senior Game Engine & Tools Engineer @ClassDojo

Role Description

ClassDojo is looking for people to join our virtual worlds platform team. Dojo Islands, our virtual playground, is being used by millions of kids in classrooms and at home. The world is procedurally generated and user customizable. Students use this in the classrooms to learn to work collaboratively to build on the island and teachers can use this to set up STEM activities for the kids to collaborate on. The virtual world is built using web technologies with the goal that it is performant and scalable on the low end devices used in schools or at home. This includes a wide range of Chromebooks, tablets (iOS and Android) and web browsers.

The Monsterverse team is responsible for building the Dojo Islands game, underlying game engine, internal game editor (Dojo Creator) and the scalable cloud infrastructure that powers Dojo Islands. As an engineer on the team, you will:

• Bring your expertise in one or more of the game subsystems like rendering, networking, avatars, and performance engineering.
• Deliver the highest quality game to our players.
• Build gameplay functionality with a modular, systems-first approach.
• Prototype fun gameplay and game design ideas and ship them to production with very high quality.
• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional team members in a continuous delivery environment.
• Follow agile kanban methodology and balance iteration with long-term building.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience working on game engine technologies including one or more areas across rendering, networking, physics, and runtime data model with deep expertise in at least one of the areas.
• Track record of delivering complex features in a CI/CD environment.
• Experienced in near real-time responsiveness in LiveOps platforms.
• Track record of delivering online multiplayer experiences at platform scale.
• Demonstrated technical leadership driving engineering practices and processes with clear outcomes.

Requirements

• Experience with WebGL.
• Playcanvas experience is a bonus!
• Experience with web development workflows including but not limited to:
  • Node.js, Javascript, Typescript
  • React
• Experience and familiarity of working with DevOps and Platform Infrastructure such as:
  • AWS Cloud Infrastructure (EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB)
  • Cloud infrastructure for deployment, scaling, and optimization (e.g. Terraform, Docker, Consul, Nomad)
  • MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
  • Azure PlayFab game services

Benefits

• Avid learner curious about new technologies especially in the confluence of AI and content creation.
• Open source code contributor.
• Founder or early engineer on startup teams.