What does Aurora Feint do?
We are part game developer and part platform developer. With proven experience making Aurora Feint, the award winning series of social RPG iPhone puzzle games, we are now focused on developing the best social gaming platform for the iPhone: OpenFeint. Are you passionate about the gaming industry? Do you love iPhone games? Do you have experience with XBLA or PSN or social networks? Are you a passionate professional looking for an exciting start-up environment? We want to hear from you...
What is our culture like?
Laid back, fast paced, and fun! Are you:
- Flexible?: Our needs change on a daily even hourly basis. Ability to manage multiple projects and deal with ambiguity a must. Grace under pressure is a requirement here.
- A Doer and a Thinker?: Ability to roll up your sleeves and contribute to decision making is important. Having just one of these skills is not enough, so come self-motivated and maybe a little stubborn :)
- A Perfectionist?: You want to get it right and you work tirelessly to get there, multiple iterations don't put you off because you want to be proud of your work when it goes out the door.
If you answered yes to these questions we definitely want to hear from you! If you don't see a perfect match below, just email us.
Job Listings
Platform Server Engineer - Sr. Rails Programmer
Last Updated: January 27, 2010
Job Description:
You will work with an A+ team of talent in a fast paced environment where your daily work has significant impact. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for Server Side development of the OpenFeint platform. You will work closely to with the Engineering team to manage platform updates, documentation, and customer support. You will become an expert on all things OpenFeint.
Core Required Skills:
- Expert with database concepts (schema normalization, optimization, and scaling)
- Expert Ruby on Rails with several delivered projects (show examples)
- A team player with experience working in a group of skilled RoR programmers
Other Desired Skills:
- Thorough understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- Familiarity with Scrum or Xp
- Active Open Source development experience
- Self-directing, motivated, and passionate
- Experience scaling a RoR project to handle massive traffic
Sales and Support Engineer
Last Updated: January 27, 2010
Job Description:
As an Aurora Feint Sales and Support Engineer, you will be responsible for working with our player and developer network to better understand and troubleshoot the OpenFeint platform. In addition to a role as a platform evangelist to the developer community, you will operate cross-functionally with sales and engineering to contribute to the evolution of the OpenFeint platform by translating developer and player requests into appropriate product features.
- Provide technical sales support for all OpenFeint developers and players, prioritizing and escalating issues to engineering as necessary.
- Create documentation to provide education and inspiration for the OpenFeint developer community.
- Collaborate with strategic partners to deliver best-in-class OpenFeint integrations.
- Work with engineering and business development teams on product roadmaps to address developer and player support and integration issues.
Core Required Skills:
- BA/BS degree preferred
- Solid C++ programming skills
- Objective-C or Cocoa programming skills
- Understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- At least 2 years experience working in a client-facing capacity.
- Excellent verbal/written communications skills
Other Desired Skills:
- Game design experience
- Published technical writer
- Personal or professional experience building iPhone applications
Rails Programmer - Tools and web development
Last Updated: February 3, 2010
You will work with an A+ team of talent in a fast paced environment where your daily work has significant impact. Reporting to the VP of Operations, you will be responsible for building internal and external RoR tools as well as maintaining and improving our developer dashboard. You will work closely with the Engineering team, the support team and the marketing team to provide tools for improving their efficiency. You will optimize our developer dashboard to make it as frictionless and amazing looking as possible. You will help make the entire company run smoother and faster.
Core Required Skills:
- Expert with database concepts (schema normalization, optimization, and scaling)
- Expert Ruby on Rails with several delivered projects (show examples)
- Experience with front end technologies such as CSS, AJAX etc.
- Excellent communication skills
Other Desired Skills:
- Thorough understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- Familiarity with Scrum or Xp
- Active Open Source development experience
- Self-directing, motivated, and passionate
- Experience scaling a RoR project to handle massive traffic
Sr. Rails Programmer - Performance and scale guru
Last Updated: February 3, 2010
You will work with an A+ team of talent in a fast paced environment where your daily work has significant impact. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for scaling and optimization of the OpenFeint servers. You will work closely with the Engineering team to make sure all checked in code runs fast. You will front our communication with our server providers to make sure we have the best possible setup.
Core Required Skills:
- Expert with database concepts (schema normalization, optimization, and scaling)
- Expert Ruby on Rails with several delivered projects (show examples) and at least 3 years of RoR experience
- A team player with experience working in a group of skilled RoR programmers
- Experience scaling a RoR project to handle massive traffic
- Understanding of server hardware and configuration
Other Desired Skills:
- Thorough understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- Familiarity with Scrum or Xp
- Active Open Source development experience
- Self-directing, motivated, and passionate
Sr. Rails Programmer - Server back-end developer
Last Updated: February 3, 2010
You will work with an A+ team of talent in a fast paced environment where your daily work has significant impact. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for server side development of OpenFeint features. You will work closely with the Engineering team to build features used by the iPhone client through our REST API. Client developers can depend on you to both deliver a feature on time and to constantly communicate your progress and how the feature will work.
Core Required Skills:
- Expert with database concepts (schema normalization, optimization, and scaling)
- Expert Ruby on Rails with several delivered projects (show examples) and at least 2 years of RoR experience
- A team player with experience working in a group of skilled RoR programmers
- Expert communicator
Other Desired Skills:
- Thorough understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- Familiarity with Scrum or Xp
- Active Open Source development experience
- Self-directing, motivated, and passionate
- Experience scaling a RoR project
Rails Programmer - Server front-end developer
Last Updated: February 3, 2010
You will work with an A+ team of talent in a fast paced environment where your daily work has significant impact. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for server side front end development of OpenFeint features. You will work closely with the Engineering team to build web pages viewed by millions of players. You are pedantic and proud of your work. Details are important to you and you put in an effort to make sure that screen comes together just right.
Core Required Skills:
- Expert with database concepts (schema normalization, optimization, and scaling)
- Expert Ruby on Rails with several delivered projects (show examples) and at least 2 years of RoR experience
- Expert front end developer fluent in HTML, CSS, AJAX etc.
- A team player with experience working in a group of skilled RoR programmers
Other Desired Skills:
- Thorough understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- Familiarity with Scrum or Xp
- Active Open Source development experience
- Self-directing, motivated, and passionate
Client Programmer - iPhone Development
Last Updated: February 3, 2010
You will work with an A+ team of talent in a fast paced environment where your daily work has significant impact. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for developing features for the OpenFeint gaming platform for the iPhone. You will work closely with the Engineering team to build features that interface with our server through our REST API. Server developers can depend on you to both deliver a feature on time and to effectively communicate requirements. Lots of what you build will be user facing and you have a good understanding both the iPhone and how people interface with it. You play games on the iPhone and already know what OpenFeint is all about.
Core Required Skills:
- Expert Objective-C with at least one iPhone application in the app store (show examples)
- Deep understanding of iPhone UI and cocoa
- Excellent communication skills
Other Desired Skills:
- Strong C++
- Experience with javascript and/or Ruby on Rails
- Thorough understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- Familiarity with Scrum or Xp
- Self-directing, motivated, and passionate
- Passionate gamer!
Promotions Manager
Last Updated: February 5, 2010
As the Promotions Manager, your primary mission will be to develop and manage the day-to-day execution of marketing campaigns to increase player engagement, drive player growth, and improve adoption of the OpenFeint platform among game developers. In addition, you will be responsible for maintaining the marketing calendar, including researching and recommending new advertising channels and evaluating and recommending conferences.
The role is a mix of project management, direct marketing, and advertising and is best suited for someone with strong organizational and tactical skills and a background in campaign development. This role will work directly with the Sr. Marketing Manager to develop and execute promotions campaigns and will report to the VP of Marketing and Developer Relations.
Qualifications:
- 2-4 years demonstrated work experience in marketing (public relations, event management, marketing research, and competitive analysis)
- 1-3 years work experience in promotions (project management, creative development, campaign design and execution)
- Organized and comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Direct experience creating consumer-facing promotion campaigns
- Proven ability to communicate with a consumers
Big plus:
- Direct experience with the gaming space
- Understanding of players, specifically around behaviors and media preferences
- Knowledge of the viral marketing in social networks
Project Manager/Producer
Last Updated: February 23, 2010
As a Project Manager/Producer at Aurora Feint you will be managing multiple projects and teams in parallel. You will be responsible for scheduling, task tracking and resolving dependencies to ensure features are shipped on time using agile development methodologies. Good organizational and communication skills are essential. You must be able to stay on top of both internal production teams and external outsourcing companies. This role reports directly to the VP of Engineering.
Qualifications:
- 2+ years as a Producer or Project Manager within the gaming industry
- Experience working in agile development methodologies such as SCRUM
- Organized and comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Proven track record of delivering products on time
- A genuine passion for games
Big plus:
- Direct experience in the mobile/iPhone space
- Experience in the social gaming industry
Game Programmer - iPhone Development
Last Updated: February 23, 2010
You will be part of a small team of rock stars developing engaging games for the iPhone. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will develop games using rapid iteration cycles. Lots of what you build will be user facing and you have a good understanding of both the iPhone and how people interface with it. You play games on the iPhone and already know what OpenFeint is all about.
Core Required Skills:
- Expert C++
- 2+ years of professional game development
- Excellent communication skills
- Passionate gamer!
Other Desired:
- Hands on experience with Objective-C and iPhone development
- Thorough understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- Familiarity with Scrum or Xp
- Self-directing, motivated, and passionate
Design Intern
Last Updated: February 23, 2010
You will work with an A+ team of talent in a fast paced environment where your daily work has significant impact. Reporting to the VP of Marketing, you will support the design team on all projects including websites, campaigns, and tools. You will work closely to with the Marketing and Web Development team to execute on our expanding web presence and marketing campaign needs. Design students looking for games and/or entertainment industry experience are perfect candidates.
Desired Traits:
- Flexible: Our needs change on a daily even hourly basis. Ability to manage multiple projects and deal with ambiguity a must. Grace under pressure is a requirement here.
- A Doer and a Thinker: Ability to roll up your sleeves and contribute to decision making is important. Having just one of these skills is not enough, so come self-motivated and maybe a little stubborn :)
- A Perfectionist: You want to get it right and you work tirelessly to get there, multiple iterations don't put you off because you want to be proud of your work when it goes out the door.
- Willing to learn: We don't expect you to know everything and will be happy to show you the ropes.
Job Responsibilities:
- Participate in the production, layout, design and content management of Aurora Feint's web presence.
- Campaign design and support including banners, landing pages, and micro-sites
- Design and polish web interfaces for internal/external administration tools
- Get what needs to get done - we love multiple hat wearers here.
Required Graphic/Web Design Skills:
- Must demonstrate a broad range of skills including core graphic design competencies (illustration, composition, layout, typography, color and light).
- 0-3 years demonstrated experience using Adobe CS products to create layouts and produce art assets for web sites
- 0-3 years experience designing online marketing materials
Big plus:
- Experience with modern web protocols/markup languages – XHTML, CSS, Javascript.
- Experience with the games industry in production, XBLA/PSN, casual/content sites, developer relations sites.
- iPhone and Game lovers encouraged to apply!
Developer Relations Manager
Last Updated: February 26, 2010
The Developer Relations Manager is responsible for evangelizing the OpenFeint platform with independent game developers on the iPhone, as well as moving those studios from awareness of the platform to integration. The position also involves product marketing support, and general developer relations and marketing tasks. This role reports directly to the VP of Marketing and Developer Relations and works closely with the Director of Developer Relations.
- 50% Sales: Identifying, contacting, and closing accounts
- 25% Account Management: Growing and managing existing accounts
- 20% Direct Marketing/Sales: Ongoing account support for VP Developer Relations and VP Operations
- 5% Miscellaneous Developer Relations and Marketing work
Core Required Skills:
- BA/BS with business or marketing emphasis preferred.
- 2-3 years experience with at least 1 year experience in sales
- 2 years experience in the entertainment vertical, preferably gaming
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills
- Good organizational skills