Jobs

Senior Game Systems Designer

Responsible for the design and implementation of rule systems and user interfaces, balancing game play and creating in-game content. Note, this is not a visual UI or art designer position.

Requirements

• Proven game designer with 3+ years Senior/Lead systems design experience on a proven game
• Experience in the design and creation of level, achievement and award systems for games
• Experience creating virtual items and managing virtual economies
• Strong mathematical, modeling and engineering skills
• Communication skills and ability to write quality product specs

Server Game Developer

WGT is seeking a server-side application developer to join a dedicated team creating social sports games. This is a hands-on coding position in our San Francisco office.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new game features in a scalable and high-performing manner
• Collaborate with design, client and QA teams to guide features from conception to deployment
• Maintain, optimize and debug existing code base
• Integrate third-party APIs and/or platforms

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience producing server applications through the full product lifecycle with responsibility for major features
• Solid software design and implementation skills with an understanding of performance, reliability, scalability and security
• Proficiency with Java or other programming languages targeting the JVM
• Proficiency with SQL
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of REST web services and related methodologies
• Highly-motivated self-starter with a passion for making high quality software

Pluses

• Experience developing video games, in particular social web-based games
• Experience with Facebook platform and Graph API
• Experience with Scala or functional programming languages
• Experience with MySQL
• Experience with JPA or Hibernate ORM
• Experience with ActionScript
• Experience with JavaScript
• Experience with cloud-based development
• Experience deploying software in a Linux environment

Senior Mobile Engineer

Responsible for the design and implementation of next generation mobile sports titles. This position reports to the CTO.

Responsibilities

• Develop games for IOS and Android on the Unity3D mobile platform
• Design and implement new game features and systems for games in our existing catalog
• Collaborate on finding/fixing bugs, as well as app performance optimization
• Build code provided by external developers and troubleshoot issues
• Integrate third party APIs for metrics and additional functionality
• Work with a small independent team to develop and maintain titles from creation to live and beyond
• This is a hands-on coding position
• Sorry, no telecommuters

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of C++ or other OOP programming language
• 2+ years Experience on a mobile game team with responsibility for major features
• Engineering credit on at least one shipped commercial product
• 1+ years Experience developing with Unity3D and publishing to mobile platforms (iOS and/or Android)
• Proficient in Javascript and Objective C
• Excellent problem solving skills, especially as it relates to 3D spatial math
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in debugging and performance optimizations
• Knowledge of REST web services and related methodologies

Pluses

• Experience with Python
• Love of sports

Mobile Engineer

Responsible for the design and implementation of next generation mobile sports titles. This position reports to the CTO.

Responsibilities

• Develop games for IOS and Android on the Unity3D mobile platform
• Design and implement new game features and systems for games in our existing catalog
• Collaborate on finding/fixing bugs, as well as app performance optimization
• Build code provided by external developers and troubleshoot issues
• Integrate third-party APIs for metrics and additional functionality
• Work with a small independent team to develop and maintain titles from creation to live and beyond
• This is a hands-on coding position
• Sorry, no telecommuters

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of C++ or other OOP programming language
• 2+ years Experience on a production game team (mobile or social games experience preferred)
• Excellent problem solving skills, especially as it relates to 3D spatial math
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of REST web services and related methodologies

Pluses

• Experience building with Unity3D and publishing to mobile platforms (iOS and/or Android)
• Experience with Objective-C, Java and/or Python
• Love of sports

Search Analyst

Manage search marketing at this fast-growing online sports gaming and media company by running SEO and SEM programs to drive significant search traffic across WGT sites (wgt.com, wgtgolf.com, wgtbaseball.com).

• Web Analytics – Detailed understanding of online traffic analysis including engagement metrics (conversion/source/bounce) and acquisition metrics (CPM/CPC/CPA/LTV/ROI) and must be very comfortable with Google Analytics and Excel analysis including pivot tables
• Search Analytics – Detailed understanding of search keyword research, keyword generation, indexing results, search traffic analysis, landing page performance and organic vs paid search results
• SEO – Hands-on experience scaling large SEO programs with millions of monthly visits, including related SEO infrastructure, content and linking programs, especially proven results developing large content/partner sites, as well as mobile web and app store search experience
• SEM – Hands-on experience managing large SEM programs (AdWords/Bing/Yahoo) with millions of monthly visits, including campaign management, keyword and creative testing, and international targeting
• Games or Sports – Prefer some experience with online games or sports media