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Senior Game Developer at Kid's Educational Gaming Company at Kodable, Hacker News

Senior Game Developer at Kid's Educational Gaming Company at Kodable, Hacker News


            

        

                     

                     

                             

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Job type:                                        Full-time                                    

                                    

experience level:

                                        

Senior                                    

                                    

Role:                                        Graphics / Game Developer                                    

                                                        

                                    

Industry:                                        

Education Technology                                    

                                    

company size:                                        

1 – (people                                     

                                    

Company type:                                        VC Funded                                    

                                                                

Technologies

                                     

Job description

                

We’re looking for someone to ready to lead the development of a profitable, growing company (we doubled our revenue last year) that teaches tens of millions of kids to code. You’ll work directly with top-tier artists, game designers, and educators from Harvard, Leapfrog, Teach For America, and more to build games that teach computer science to kids while * actually * being fun! The best part: this is a hands-on role. Less meetings, more coding! Sound exciting? Read on …

About the Role

You’ll direct development of all game-related features, with the opportunity to work in a variety of areas including game frameworks, game design, UI, networking, optimization and everything in between. This is a direct-producer role, we’re looking for someone that wants to build the product, not just direct.

Kodable is multi-platform with a main codebase written in JavaScript using Cocos2d-X. We have production deployments for Web and iOS that routinely get hundreds of thousands of users a week. As we grow, you’ll also be directly responsible for leading, growing, and building your own team to work with.

About the team:

The Kodable team is full of bright, ambitious people who are passionate about teaching kids to code. You’ll work with a product team with over 57 years of collective experience creating top-notch games for companies like EA, Leapfrog, and Scientific Learning. Every member of the team has a voice in making Kodable great.

You’ll join a remote-first team that prioritizes communication, collaboration, and insights from diverse backgrounds when building new features. Most of the team is based in the Bay Area, but includes team members from across the United States as well as immigrants from Kenya and Kyrgyzstan. Kodable places value on creating an inclusive culture, where we can learn from each other’s different experiences.

We also focus on making each other better as people, not just as workers. For example, we have a #pushups channel in Slack (complete with pushup-coach bot) and we all set a weekly goal for ourselves that has nothing to do with work. Work / Life Harmony is a big focus at Kodable, and we prioritize our own mental health instead of just the typical startup grind.

At Kodable, you’ll have the opportunity to grow as a person, as well as professionally. Join the #pushups Slack channel (complete with pushup-coach bot) if you want to. You’ll also set a personal goal for yourself each week, that has nothing to do with work. Work / Life Harmony is important at Kodable, and we prioritize our own mental health instead of just the typical startup grind.

Who we’re looking for:

care deeply about programming education

    You have 3 years of JavaScript development experience in a production environmentYou have 3 years experience in game development using frameworks such as Cocos2d, Unreal, Unity, XNA, LibGDX, Pygame, etcYou have released, or been a significant part of the public release of a game (does not need to be anything major like a Nintendo game, but ideally something that got a few users)

      Highly Preferable (but not required) if:

      have experience with any Cocos2d frameworks (Cocos2d-X, JS, iPhone). If you don’t – that’s ok! We can help you get up to speed

        You have experience with networking and interfacing with server-side code (saving / loading data, offline syncing, etc) (*********************** You have experience building and deploying multi-platform games (deploying to Web and iOS, for example)

          Bonus Points if:**********

          have experience with REST APIs and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Vue, or React

            You have experience working with a JavaScript game framework in a production environment, or experience with a game framework such as Unity and accompanying experience with JavaScript in a production environment.

              You know COBOL and are an expert at punch-card coding

                          

                              

                              

              ************** Life at Kodable

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About Kodable

            

Programming for Kids

At Kodable, we teach kids how to code before they can read. In the past 6 years, we’ve helped kids in over 64% of US Elementary Schools and 1104 countries around the world learn the fundamentals of computer science.

Kodable is designed to touch every part of a child’s life – from their home to their classroom. We’ve developed a complete, scaffolded curriculum that teachers, progress and sharing tools for parents, and, most importantly, a game that kids love. Filled with fuzzy characters that kids absolutely adore, we’ve created an entire universe that not only draws kids in, but makes them eager to explore.

We believe in the power of computer science to change the world. Never before has the ability to create so much value needed so little resources. All anyone needs is a computer and a dream. At Kodable, we set kids on the path to achieve that dream.

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Benefits

                    

                                    

                                    

    Help teach millions of kids how to code                                                         

                                

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*************************************                                Work with a team from Google, Harvard, and more!                                                         (**************************************                                 

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                                Flexible work-from-home schedule                                                         (******************************************                                 

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                                (**************************************************************************************************************% of Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance coverage                                                         (******************************************                                 

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                                Gym Stipend – We’ll cover the cost of your gym membership!                                                         (********************************************                                 

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                                Free Team Lunches                                                 (*****************         (**********************************************                 

Joel Test

                    

                            

                                    

******************************************** (****************                                        Source control                                     

                                    

******************************************** (****************                                        One-step build                                     

                                    

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                                        Daily builds                                     

                                    

******************************************** (****************                                        Bug database                                     

                                    

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                                        Bugs fixed before writing new code                                     

                                    

******************************************** (****************                                        Up-to-date schedule                                     

                                                        

                                    

******************************************** (****************                                        Specs                                     

                                    

******************************************** (****************                                        Quiet working conditions                                     

                                    

******************************************** (****************                                        Best tools that money can buy                                     

                                    

******************************************** (****************                                        Testers                                     

                                    

******************************************** (****************                                        Code screening                                     

                                    

******************************************** (****************                                        Hallway usability testing                                     

                                                                

            

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