**Job Description**: Idle Games is looking for Software Developers (Python/Django) to join our small and brilliant team in building a real-time social casual MMO games platform. We are making original beautiful soon-to-be-released Blockbuster titles that delight, engage, entertain and will monetize very well. Our platform is years ahead of it's time; featuring a persistent, synchronous massive multi-player environment with hand- drawn fully animated characters.
Have a look at a video of our game demo'd by the CTO of Adobe during his keynote at the Adobe Max conference: www.idle-games.com. **Python/Django Software Engineer** Responsibilities: * Manage database for multi-player social games that can support millions of users * Work closely with development team to integrate game simulation server with persistence layer * Help implement build/release process for application * Guarantee high performance of database server for a massively multiplayer casual game **Requirements** Qualifications: * Demonstrable fluency in and experience coding all of the primary components of the Django Framework--i.e., (I) the ORM; (ii) the request processor; (iii) the URL dispatcher; and (iv) the Tempting system * Similar fluency and experience with other key framework components, in particular, (i) the middleware class structure; (ii) caching (particularly, memcache); and (iii) form serialization * Deep understanding of the challenges to a Django production app caused by rapid and massive scale-out (to > 1 million concurrent); experience-validated knowledge sufficient to implement solutions to monitor and interdict problems caused by scale * 5+ years professional experience in software development * Advanced MySQL usage (3+ years) * Excellent Python skills with 2+ years of experience * Django or similar ORM framework * Experience distributing traffic across multiple data centers and tiers of systems * Proficient in Linux (Ubuntu) including shell scripting * Experience administering and deploying content management systems (e.g. Django CMS or Drupal) * B.S. degree in Computer Science, related or equivalent experience Nice to Have: * C/C++ skills highly desirable * Experience integrating Flash or Flex applications with database backends * Web Traffic and High Volume System performance analysis and monitoring * Facebook API * Experience building backends for multiplayer games * Experience building applications on AWS * Data Mining * Localization experience * Avid gamer **About the company** Idle Games is the paradigm shift that everyone has been looking in social games! We are executing on the best formula for success starting with our incredible leader/founder, Rick Thompson. Rick is one of the most successful serial entrepreneurs/investors in Silicon Valley, having sold three companies for over $3 billion! (Latest is the sale of Playdom to Disney for $750 million). Our CEO & Executive Creative Director, Jeff Hyman, spent the last decade running his own highly successful Interactive Advertising Agency. He produced TV shows, commercials, and 35 Flash games, and won 2 CLIOS, 2 Cannes Lions, a One Show Award & 8 National Addy awards! We understand the needs of our employees, so all the infrastructure is in place that will allow you to focus on doing what you do best. You'll make a huge impact while working with brilliant people solving interesting and challenging problems. Your ideas, creativity and input will be encouraged, valued, and directly implemented into our games and corporate culture. There's lots of fun here, with life work balance, free dinners and a Tiki bar! Come join us and let's make history together! **Contact Info:** * **Contact**: Alicia Lin * **E-mail contact**: ali...@idle-games.com * **Other Contact Info**: 415-717-1274 * **Web**: http://idle-games.com/careers_engineering.htm#pse -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
