| Volley (YC W18) | San Francisco | Lead Javascript Engineer / Head of Engineering | ONSITE | Full Time | $120-$150K (+ equity) Apply: https://angel.co/volley/jobs Website: https://volleythat.com Volley develops voice-controlled games and entertainment for Amazon Alexa and Google Home. We are the #1 voice-first game company with 10+ titles and exponential month-over-month growth. We've raised from top institutional investors in the gaming industry and we are starting Y Combinator in early January. We are seeking a Lead Engineer or Head of Engineering to build out game engines and design the backend infrastructure for our games. You will help us conceptualize and build proprietary voice-controlled game engines, scale our infrastructure from hundreds of thousands to millions of users, and manage other engineers in a collaborative small-team environment. Founders are both technical from Harvard and Stanford. Our software stack includes: -- AWS Lambda (Node.js) -- AWS DynamoDB -- Alexa Skills Kit -- Google Cloud Functions -- Firebase Stuff you may have done before: -- Game development -- iOS / Android development -- Engineering role at a gaming company -- Engineering role at a consumer software company -- Engineering management experience -- AWS experience -- Serverless Lambda experience -- Alexa / Google Home / voice interface experience Check out our top rated games for Alexa: -- "Song Quiz" (http://songquiz.com) - A name-that-tune music trivia game in which you must correctly identify the title and artist of popular songs. -- "Yes Sire" (http://yessire.com) - A choose-your-own adventure story-driven game set in a medieval castle. |