GameAttain is a new, early stage company focused on creating a better experience for all types of gamers. We want to help you find your next game.

We are looking for a experienced, motivated, and hands-on geeks, nerds, developers, engineers, scientists to help us with our content delivery engine. It is paramount that you are passionate about games, have the technical know-how and the curiosity to solve problems.

If you think you are what we need and are interested in joining a young and dynamic start-up in the gaming world and most importantly want to be challenged, then we want to meet you. Please note we are a bootstrapped company so compensation will vary based on qualifications. Send us your resume, cover letter, to info@gameattain.com and please specify in the subject line the job ref ID. Game on.

 

Open Roles

Need an alpha-geek for machine learning, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, data wrangling, scalable cloud computation, recommendation engine development. (Job Ref: G-1)

  • Experience in Java development to make use of many of the listed libraries
  • Experience with functional languages for scalable computation Clojure / Scala / Erlang (Clojure preferred)
  • Experience with advanced search techniques using libraries like Lucene
  • Experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques and predicitive analysis with libraries like Mahout
  • Experience with natural language processing / sentiment analysis using libraries like LingPipe
  • Experience with the semantic modeling / data normalization of unstructured text data using some flavor of RDF and or ontology language
  • Experience with building a scalable cloud computing stack with providers like AWS / Cloudera and technologies like Hadoop, Big Data, Cascading, HDFS, and HBase
  • Experience collecting, processing, and exchanging high volumes of heterogeneous web data using formats like RSS, ATOM, XMPP (e.g. ejabberd, Superfeedr, pubsubhubbub)
  • Experience with recommendation techniques and algorithms (see recent Netflix contest entries) like collaborative filtering, factorization, concept drift, and temporal analysis

Need a Flex UI developer for Facebook and standalone Web application development with an eye for what gamers like. (Job ID: Flex-1)

  • Experience with Adobe Flex 3 / Flex 4 development including advanced component, transition, and animation development
  • Experience with Flex Builder 3 / Flash Builder (Flex 4)
  • Experience with advanced MVC / event handling frameworks like Mate / PureMVC / Cairngorm / Swiz (Mate is preferred)
  • Experience with Flex skinning and styling experience by integrating design assets from sources like Adobe CS 4.
  • Experience with REST or AMF service interface communication
  • Experience with test driven development using FlexUnit, FunFX, and Cucumber
  • Familiarity with Adobe Flash Catalyst for future design / development workflows is preferred

Need a Ruby on Rails Web application developer and scale guru to build interfaces for Flex, iPhone, and data processing applications. (Job ID: ROR-1)

  • Experience building high-scale consumer web applications with Ruby on Rails using various techniques, tools, and servers like DB call optimization, memcached, message queuing, Nginx proxy + Thin clusters
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails 2.x+ (most recent version preferred)
  • Experience with test driven / behavior driven development using RSpec, Cucumber
  • Experience with system / server management and automation using tools like Chef or Puppet
  • No presentation layer development is needed, but need experience building service interfaces for Flex, iPhone, and other UIs, as well as interfacing with back end data processing engine, using REST or AMF for the service interface
  • Experience working with database engines at scale (MySQL, PostgreSQL, HBase)
  • Experience interfacing with social web APIs and authorization models like Facebook Connect / API, Twitter APIs, OAuth, OpenID, and additional Open Stack technologies
  • Experience interfacing with the Amazon (and other) affiliate program is a plus
  • Experience working with Xbox Live / Playstation Network connection and authorization a plus