Skills and Abilities

• Ability to be creative on demand.
• Ability to receive constructive feedback from management, peers and other creative sources.
• Ability to give constructive feedback
• Ability to adhere to tight deadlines and follow guidelines, processes and schedules.
• Strong commitment to the culture of Club Penguin.
• Strong ability to communicate both written and verbal.
• Ability to be innovative.
• Strong team player.
• Collaborative.
• Self-motivated.
• Self-learner.
• Strong Knowledge of online MMO’s.

The candidate must be intimate with contemporary build systems for a varietyof environments. The candidate must also be familiar with branching andmerging techniques, associated challenges of source code management andcontrol across many physical locations. Working experience with Bamboo, Ant,Jenkins and Maven are strong pluses.

Experience

• 5+ years experience in build process, software engineering, or system admin.

• Experience with online games an asset.

Software

• Proficient with Microsoft Office and Build Management software, Anthill Pro.

• Strong knowledge of PHP, Ant, Flash, Java and other programming languages.

• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g. SVN and CVS).

• Experience with Anthill Pro, Bamboo, Jenkins and Maven.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability and patience to perform detailed work.

• Experience debugging and troubleshooting during builds and deployments, including ability todiagnose and rectify binary compilation errors.

• Experience with working to deadlines and the ability to work under pressure.

• Solid teamwork skills with a positive attitude and able to drive resolution of technical issues.

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

• Ability to lead development of build best practices in complex environments.

• Ability to work in cross-departmental teams and to interact effectively with other members ofthe organization.

• Excellent communication skills both written and spoken.

Please apply for this position by emailing your resume to jobs@vancouverjobs.ca with the position title noted in the subject field.

We are looking for an individual who is both very creative and can back up our vision with a strong, working technical background. He/she should be adaptive, multi-talented, independent, a self-starter, have strong interpersonal skills and strong research skills.

Our team:

• Small, focused and highly creative

• Work on cutting edge social media technology

• Flexible roles with expectations of collaboration into all aspect of design and development

• Continually tweaking tools and processes

What you will be doing:

• Porting web services and a web portal to the Windows Azure cloud computing platform

• Extending and maintaining functionality of web portal and web services

• Designing and implementing an analytics tracking system

A strong working knowledge in most or all of the following technologies are required:

• ASP.NET (DotNetNuke is beneficial)

• Web services using WCF, REST

• High-availability architecture with fail-over services and load-balancing

• Analytics tracking and visualization

• SQL Server

• Visual Studio

• Social networking technologies (Facebook and Twitter APIs)

A working knowledge all of the following platforms are required:

• Windows Azure platform (web applications and SQL)

• Windows XP/Vista/7 OS

A strong working knowledge with the following development languages and frameworks are required:

• C++

• C#/.NET

• JavaScript

• LINQ

Experience with the following is also beneficial:

• Adobe AIR SDK, Flex framework

• iOS / Android development

• Agile software development

   

   

  Please apply for this position by emailing your resume to jobs@vancouverjobs.ca with the position title noted in the subject field.

Our team:

• Small, focused and highly creative

• Flexible roles with expectations of collaboration into all aspect of design and development

• Continually tweaking tools and processes

What you will be doing:

• Integrating video/audio capture technology into a popular game development tool

Requirements:

• 10+ years experience and strong understanding of Windows development, specifically with:

  • DirectShow

  • GDI+, Direct3D and OpenGL APIs

  • Video and image processing: scaling, sampling filters, color-space conversion

  • Audio processsing: resampling

• Strong C++

• Familiarity with C#, ActionScript 3

• Familiarity with Adobe Flash / AIR development

• Strong optimization skills

• Multi-threaded / multi-core programming

• Knowledge of network protocols TCP & UDP

• Experience with network messaging, WCF, REST web services

• Minimum of Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent background

Nice to have experience with:

• CUDA and OpenCL
• Unity 3D
• FMOD audio
• Mac OS X software development
• iOS / Android development
• Agile software methodologies
• Passion for all things gaming

What We Offer:

• Flexible environment and with mix of in-office and telecommute

• Fast-paced challenging environment

• Work on cutting edge social media technology

   

   

  Please apply for this position by emailing your resume to jobs@vancouverjobs.ca with the position title noted in the subject field.

Our team:

• Small, focused and highly creative

• Flexible roles with expectations of collaboration into all aspect of design and development

• Continually tweaking tools and processes

What you will be doing:

• Integrating video/audio capture technology into a popular game development tool

Requirements:

• 10+ years experience and strong understanding of Windows development, specifically with:

  • DirectShow

  • GDI+, Direct3D and OpenGL APIs

  • Video and image processing: scaling, sampling filters, color-space conversion

  • Audio processsing: resampling

• Strong C++

• Familiarity with C#, ActionScript 3

• Familiarity with Adobe Flash / AIR development

• Strong optimization skills

• Multi-threaded / multi-core programming

• Knowledge of network protocols TCP & UDP

• Experience with network messaging, WCF, REST web services

• Minimum of Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent background

Nice to have experience with:

• CUDA and OpenCL
• Unity 3D
• FMOD audio
• Mac OS X software development
• iOS / Android development
• Agile software methodologies
• Passion for all things gaming

What We Offer:

• Flexible environment and with mix of in-office and telecommute

• Fast-paced challenging environment

• Work on cutting edge social media technology

   

   

  Please apply for this position by emailing your resume to jobs@vancouverjobs.ca with the position title noted in the subject field.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Responsible for the operational administration and support of Disney Online Studios Canada (DOSC) products in the global marketplace. This position participates in the development, implementation, and operation of the DOSC products in a high-performance, high-availability environment and provides operational support to our internal and external customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Site operations:

• Enforce policies and standards to maintain DOSC products.
• Manage execution of planned and unplanned change procedures.
• Risk assessment of planned site changes and post-mortem analysis of unplanned outages.
• Maintain a forward schedule of change calendar.
• Project expected traffic and analyze site capacity.
• Manage and resolve escalated operational issues.
• Responsible for maintaining a 99.9% availability
• Development of disaster recovery plans.
• Management and mentoring of System Administration team.

Reporting:

• Evaluate operations performance against internal and external SLA’s on a weekly basis, and reporting on a monthly basis.
• Ad-hoc reporting of site performance for site engineering and software development.

REQUIREMENTS

• Post-secondary education required.
• 3-5 years people management experience.
• 6+ years’ experience with internet-based products or services.
• 6+ years’ experience with distributed network administration.
• 6+ years’ experience with configuration management/change management and build technologies.
• 3+ year’s management experience.
• Experience working in a subscription product venture.
• Experience in incident, problem and change management practices
• 3+ years’ experience working with Unix / Linux systems
• Experience with large scale, high volume and highly available ecommerce products Experience working with at least one object oriented programming language
• Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• General knowledge of computer gaming, the internet, and computers.
• Fluent in English.

SPECIFIC SKILLS

• Proven ability to participate with other functional teams in project planning, design, and issue resolution, including writing operational specifications, test plans, and requirements management with attention to detail.
• Superior leadership, judgment, problem resolution, team building, negotiation, budgeting, and decision-making skills as well as the ability to work under continual deadline pressure.
• Superb written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Able to motivate and mentor a team of diverse people with different skill types and levels.
• Excellent project management skills, including planning, timeline, dependency and risk management
• Positive can-do partnership attitude while working with teams, cross-functional teams and business units

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

- Relocation will be provided.

- Remote work is NOT and option

Please apply for this position by emailing your resume to jobs@vancouverjobs.ca with the position title noted in the subject field.

EA is seeking a Software Engineer in Burnaby, BC to lead a small team of engineers to who manage EA’s online applicatoin infrastructure for gaming. This position collaborates with both internal middleware developers and game developers to setup, deploy, and maintain application services for some of the biggest games in the industry.

You perform well under pressure, coming up with solutions balancing the practicality of mitigating an issue and devising a long term solution. You are detail oriented and have a natural curiosity, never leaving a stone unturned to understand why something unexpected happened and how to prevent if from happening again. You not only to use tools to assist you in your craft, but automate those tools and develop your own tools as needed to master the art of infrastructure management.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional development experience in C/C++ or Java
• Experience working in an operational group managing a large cluster of servers
• A strong interest in application, hardware, and networking technologies
• Strong analytical, problem solving and live environment debugging skills
• Must be competent Linux user with some MySQL familiarity
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills working in a high scalability environment
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent

Bonus skills

• Experience in other languages such as Python, PHP, or Perl
• Experience using monitoring tools such as Nagios, Cacti, Graphite

Competencies

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment
• Constantly innovate how to improve product quality as well as group productivity
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts, principles and solutions
• Demonstrates dependability and commitment to projects/tasks
• Good business sense – ability to manage non-technical hurdles to getting things done
• Culture of continuous learning, ability and hunger to take on new challenges
• Able to interact well with internal customers (technical and non-technical)
• Can stay cool under pressure and make smart decisions even in high stress situations

Please apply for this position by emailing your resume to jobs@vancouverjobs.ca with the position title noted in the subject field.

Server Engineering Lead

EA is seeking a Software Engineering Lead in Burnaby, BC to define and develop server infrastructure related to online gaming. The systems developed by the Game Services group are leveraged by titles throughout EA studios worldwides. The lead server engineer manages a team of engineers and plays a key role in building the future online capabilities used by multiple EA titles. The Game Services group is responsible for highly scalable online features such as rating and statistics systems, achievements, friends (social graph), messaging and much more. 

You have a passion for highly-scalable server applications and solve problems with smart architecture and algorithm design, building systems that last. You have worked across a range of server technologies from low-level sockets, to replication architectures to high-level frameworks. You are thrilled to move your code into production and ship a compelling and innovative feature. You want to make significant contributions, solve hard problems, and work in a fun and healthy environment with excellent peers. You are first and foremost a top-notch engineer and will spend much of your time coding, but are also responsible for the talent management and mentoring of your team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional development experience in Java
• 4+ years of professional development experience in C/C++
• 1+ years of engineering management experience
• Broad understanding of scalable server technology and techniques
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills working in a multi-threaded environment 
• Ability to write technical design documents which other engineers can implement
• Strong creative problem solving abilities 
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent

Bonus Skills

• Ability to evaluate live server operation via tools such as tcpdump or strace
• Demonstrated technical leadership or mentoring experience

Competencies

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment
• Constantly innovate how to improve product quality as well as group productivity
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts, principles and solutions
• Demonstrates dependability and commitment to projects/tasks
• Good business sense – ability to manage non-technical hurdles to getting things done
• Culture of continuous learning, ability and hunger to take on new challenges

Please apply for this position by emailing your resume to jobs@vancouverjobs.ca with the position title noted in the subject field.

Position/Title: Linux System Administrator 
Department: System Operations 
Reporting to: System Operations Manager 
Location: Burnaby, BC 

This position is responsible for installation, configuration, maintenance and monitoring of all Linux systems and applications located in the datacenter. The systems administrator will support daily operations and help develop strategies to improve availability and utilization of Linux environments. 

Essential Functions: 

•Provisioning new servers, imaging, monitoring and other daily routines 
•Develop and implement administration standards and procedures. 
•Monitor releases and develop patch installation strategies. 
•Provide input to the policies and procedures related to support, monitoring, security and release. 
•Maintain and extend system monitoring frameworks. 
•Support 24x7x365 data center operations. 
•Support application installation and monitoring solutions. 
•Provide after hours on-call support. 
•Deploy applications to internal and customer facing environments. 
•Support internal development and production departments. 
•Perform other job related duties as required 

Knowledge, skills (Mandatory): 

•Minimum 5+ years system administration experience in a Linux/Unix , preferably Ubuntu or RedHat environment, supporting business critical systems. 
•Good interpersonal communication and written communication skills. 
•Ability to gather requirements, design and implement appropriate solutions 
•Deep understanding of all TCP, HTTP protocols and networking in general. 
•Bash required! Perl and/or other scripting language. 
•2+ years running/supporting Java applications. 
•Load balancers, Web servers, proxies, cache: Apache, nginx, varnish. 
•Monitoring systems: Zabbix preferable, Cacti, Nagios etc. 
•Databases: MySQL preferably. 

Nice to have skills: 

•Exposure to cloud computing (AWS) 
•Familiarity with Oracle RDBMS systems. 
•Exposure to python, ruby or Perl. 
•XMPP / Jabber protocols 
•JIRA / Incident management 
•Experience with virtualization technology. 
•Experience with SAN/NAS technology.

Please apply for this position by emailing your resume to jobs@vancouverjobs.ca with the position title noted in the subject field.

East Side Games, Inc. is on the hunt for a Flash Software Engineer to take on the front end of our Facebook game! You (yes, you!) prefer small sprints, quick iterations, and short deadlines. You love refining your code and participating in peer reviews because hey, school is cool! And lastly, you are the epitome of Flash awesomeness.

East Side Games is a social and mobile gaming company located in the fabulously cool Gastown area of Vancouver. We are open to producing games not only for Facebook and iOS, but also the open web, Google+, Amazon Kindle, HTML5 and any other technology that makes sense.  We are focused on rapid prototyping and taking design ideas to playable prototypes in days rather than months.  We love metrics & are passionate about our community creating a data and community driven environment.  Overall, our aim is to make quirky and original social and mobile games with a bit of edge and a lot of humour!!! Check us out atwww.eastsidegamestudio.com!

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop, assess, test, troubleshoot, document, upgrade existing & newly developed software.
• Develop & localize Flash games using ActionScript & related tools.
• Design & develop models & software to optimize architecture & to evaluate the performance & reliability.
• Create a highly optimized gaming experience to our user.
• Deliver a high traffic system that creates exponential hits.
• Optimize the performance of our games to support a wide range of hardware.
• Create & maintain utilities for use in development.
• Create & maintain technical documentation.
• Work closely with the development, design, & QA teams to meet completion deadlines for each project.
• Integrate change requests & playtesting feedback.
• Plan & design for existing & upcoming work.
• Oversee & guide junior programmers.

*** Duties and responsibilities outlined above are representative, but not all inclusive.

What you need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in multiple programming environments such as CS 3 / 4, Flex, ActionScript (AS3), CPU/Memory optimization, JavaScript/Flash bridging, &/or cross browser compatibility.
• Strong unit testing & object oriented design skills preferred.
• Strong time management & the ability to assist other team members in problem solving.
• Strong written & verbal communication (i.e. has worked with cross functional teams).
• Professional experience in the social gaming industry is an uber big cry of awesomeness!
• Completely big bonus if you have:
  • Python, PHP, DB & MySQL knowledge.
  • UI design experience.
  • Facebook API knowledge.
  • XML.
  • Working with REST/AMFPHP.

What’s in it for you:

• Competitive Salary.
• Working with other talented & driven peeps!
• A concentrated workday.
• An empowering, collaborative, casual, & flexible environment.
• Working on different & out of the box game concepts.
• Working at one of Vancouver’s most successful & profitable social gaming studios.