Z2Live is looking for a rock star server side architect to own the development and architecture of our next generation mobile social games. You will work as a leader within a team of talented engineers, providing direction and guidance toward achieving massively scalable social games. You’ll be challenged with bringing online services for millions of players across a variety of genre and gameplay types with unprecedented levels of interactivity and multiplayer gameplay.

Responsibilites:

• The scalability, performance and robustness of the online game service.
• Anticipate challenges with scaling and avoid performance bottlenecks.
• Offer solutions to scalability challenges that are practical and elegant.
• Mentor the technical staff around you.
• Inspire team work.
• Improving team efficiency.
• Leverage agile best practices for quality, on-time software delivery.
• Have a blast at the hottest social game company in Seattle.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years of experience building scalable web services.
• Experience with server frameworks, distributed systems, fault tolerance, and scalability.
• Understanding of implementing large server applications including networking, memory, storage, and concurrency.
• Java, MySQL, no-SQL databases, Hibernate
• Desire to be in at the ground floor of a profitable an dwell funded start-up.