Hiring: Platform Engineer
Platform Engineer
Do you want to inspire millions of kids around the world? Do you want to isolate the golden data that will advance our knowledge about how people learn? Leverage your experience building enterprise-level software to create the perfect platform for learning in the age of mobile. As a founding member of the development team, your decisions, energy, and ability to master new technologies will greatly impact the future of Motion Math. If you want to work extremely hard, make learning more effective and more joyous, and are ready to have the best year of your professional career, keep reading.
Requirements
| • | Outstanding Platform Engineer/Architect. | |
| • | Experience with cloud- and server-based services and deep understanding of trade-offs between them. | |
| • | Experience implementing scalable solutions that collect thousands of data points from multiple external sources each day. | |
| • | Love of software development, architecture design, and the simple, elegant code that comes from a well-planned unit test. | |
| • | Curiosity and internal motivation to constantly pick up new technologies and programming techniques. | |
| • | Ability to quickly prototype and later refactor to make the codebase very solid and modular. | |
| • | Experience with and commitment to modern development techniques (TDD, scrum, pair programming, performance testing and tuning, etc). | |
| • | Demonstrable initiative, leadership, and communication skills. | |
Bonus points:
• Experience with education, data mining, data analysis, statistics, gaming and engagment metrics.
• iOS development experience – you will also be helping our app development team.
• Experience creating automated regression testing systems.
About us
Motion Math creates intuitive, physical gameplay for math’s most difficult fundamentals. In new mobile and game technologies we see a huge, international opportunity to transform how children learn. Our first product, a fractions number line game – conceived at Stanford’s School of Education – launched on the App Store to critical acclaim. We’ve just raised seed funding from a world-class group of investors and are now rapidly completing our first game suite and data platform.
We will soon be moving to an office in SOMA, San Francisco. Competitive pay, great equity, health insurance, and the opportunity of a lifetime. Qualified candidates should contact us at careers@motionmathgames.com
