What are the responsibilities and job description for the Service Developer position at SpinPlay Games?
Department: Development
Location: Nevada or Texas -- REMOTE
The Service Developer is responsible for creating and converting slot game math models into game services, creating API documentation for client and QA teams, and providing service related technical support to other teams. These game services are used by client developers who integrate these services into their game clients. Service Developer will act in both a project owner and project support role, working across multiple projects within a single year.
Key Responsibilities
- Designs, codes and debugs game services using math models and spec docs.
- Works at all stages of the game service development lifecycle from requirements capture by liaising with Mathematicians, through service design & implementation, support to client developers and QA service testing and to compliance and production teams.
- Increases efficiency through automation, workflow streamlining, and system optimization.
- Keeps current with new technologies and makes recommendations to the team.
- Collaborates with members of the QA and delivery teams to ensure game services and related components are tested, installed and maintained to a high standard.
- Promotes high code standards within the team.
- Maintains and enhances existing product code.
- Actively participates in the agile scrum process.
- Sets up, configures and maintains development, testing and staging environments.
- Detects and resolves performance issues.
- Maintains version control using Git based services.
- Creates JIRA tasks and manages their workload independently.
- Takes complete ownership of their game development responsibilities to ensure on-time deliveries.
- Needs to be self organized with minimal management.
- Other duties as assigned.
- 5 years experience creating slot games.
- Experience in implementing game math models on the server side.
- Worked with client developers and QA to provide support on game services.
- Create API documentation for client developers and QA team.
- Ability to multi-task and be agile, when required.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Experience with version control systems, such as Git (BitBucket, GitHub etc)
- Demonstrated expertise in all aspects of C#, dotnet, Visual Studio and related technologies
- Solid knowledge of OOPs, MVC and other design principles.
- Knowledge of DevOps – Azure DevOps preferably.
- Knowledge of PowerShell, Shell Scripts or NodeJS for writing helper tools.
- Passionate about building highly optimized high-performance game services and systems
- Participate in code reviews and ensure code quality and maintainability.