Looking for Ninjas

on May 25, 2010

BitRhymes prides itself in its flat organization structure and comprising brilliant and enthusiastic minds. You will be working on innovative, fun ideas that are used by millions of users world wide using some of the most cutting edge technologies in the social gaming space. The work you do will have a global reach, imagine changing a line of code that makes an immediate impact to a million people world-wide. Unlike normal outsourcing companies, you don’t throw away petty websites after developing them, you develop applications that are live and breathing.

 

Our benefits include:

  • BEST pay package for the right candidate
  • Working with cutting edge technology
  • Being part of a small team. No corporate bullshit.
  • Flexible work hours and Fun workplace.
  • We will even pay for your home internet connectivity

Open Positions

The following positions are open for our Bangalore office:

 

Sr. Actionscript/Flash Developer

We are looking for a Senior Action script/Flash Developer who will work with graphic designers and backend team to design, develop and deploy multi-user online flash games. This candidate will work on adding new features to our existing games as well as creating and developing new games. We are looking for a Senior Action script/Flash Developer who will work with graphic designers and backend team to design, develop and deploy multi-user online flash games. This candidate will work on adding new features to our existing games as well as creating and developing new games.

Responsibility & Key Result Areas:

  • Build and support online Flash RPG's used by millions of users worldwide.

Experience:  4-10 years of solid software development experience.

Skill Set:

  • Expertise in Flash Development: Action script 3.0, CPU/Memory optimization.
  • RPG or comprehensive browser based flash game development experience ideal
  • Isometric game development experience big plus. Arcade games development experience OK but should be extensive experience
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Education and other know-how: B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Note:

  • This candidate should have the ability to thrive in small, friendly and highly dynamic team in a fast-paced environment. Salary will beat best in industry.
  • Please send us a link that exhibits your work.

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Sr. Application Engineer (AJAX)

The best candidates will have solid experience developing web 2.0 applications utilizing LAMP technologies. You will be joining a team who's committed to working on high quality code in PHP/AJAX/LAMP.

Responsibility & Key Result Areas:

  • Build and support social web applications used by millions of users worldwide.

Experience: 4-8 yrs experience.

Skill Set:

  • Excellent in AJAX and Javascript
  • Very Good in PHP (web app development experience preferred)
  •  Working knowledge of Apache and MySQL
  •  Good analytical and algorithmic skills.
  •  Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks like Prototype.js, jQuery, GWT etc is   plus.

Education and other know-how: B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Note:

  • The Candidates need to rate themselves on AJAX, PHP and MySQL

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QA Engineer / Game Tester

  • As our first producer you will help define how we manage the game production lifecycle. You will be core to our culture and the ongoing productivity of the development team
  • Work with company leadership to establish and maintain the vision, scope, schedule, budget and resource plan for game titles

Responsibility & Key Result Areas:

  • Testing games on different platforms.
  • Finding bugs in games.
  • Reporting the bugs found.

Skill Set:

  • Knowledge and experience of testing games.
  • Passionate gamer and should have played Facebook games.
  • Good analyzing and logical skills.
  • Experience of using bug tracking software like BugZilla/FogBugz to report and track bugs.
  • Good communication skills and a team player spirit.
  • Meticulous and attentive to detail. Ability to accurately follow instructions.

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Game Arts Lead / Director

The Art Director is responsible for the visual style and quality of all assets created by the team. This includes in-game and front-end menu assets, web sites and branding.

Responsibility & Key Result Areas:

  • Responsible for the initial high concepts behind visual style, the Art Director communicates their vision by creating key drawings, concept images, mood boards, color swatches, documentation and example assets.
  • You would work closely with Game Producers, Designers and Engineers.

Experience: 5+ years of excellent flash/illustrations design experience.

Skill Set:

  • Experience managing a team of designers
  • Must have been responsible for releasing big production games with thousands of assets
  • Should be skilful in Adobe Photoshop and CS3
  • Familiarity with Action script programming a plus.

Note: Must have either links of games or portfolio to show.

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Creative Designer

We are seeking someone with a creative streak, who understands Flash casual games; make fun and engaging games for the international audience.

Skill Set:

  • Excellent flash/illustrations designer
  • Must have led team of designers
  • Should be skilful in Adobe Photoshop and CS3
  • Familiarity with Action script programming and engineering requirements

Note:

  • Must have a games portfolio to showcase.

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Systems/Release Engineer

BitRhymes is seeking a talented Senior Release Engineer who is an automation rock star. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, is not afraid to take ownership of releases, in depth knowledge of release automation and Linux systems. The position is full-time and is based in our office in Bangalore.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, document and maintain the framework to automate the release, deploy and support activities.
  • Continually review and assess system and application reliability, performance, and security and recommend improvements.
  • Work on tools to help implement monitoring systems such as Nagios, and develop plugins to improve system reliability and admin response time.
  • Develop dashboard for internal users to display status of builds, automated tests, and system monitors.
  • Document tools and processes on corporate wiki, develop training guides.
  • Work closely with development teams, project management, security, and netops to ensure fast highly reliable quality releases.

Experience:

  • 3-7 years exp in a release or build engineering related field.

Skill Set:

  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems or related field (or equivalent experience) required.
  • Hands-on experience in creating automated build and deploy systems for web applications/games based on PHP, Flash technologies a plus.
  • Expert scripting ability in at least one scripting language (Python, PERL, bash, etc.).
  • Expert knowledge of version control system management and branching methodologies (SVN)
  • Good knowledge of Linux RedHat administration .Systems administration-level knowledge of HTTP/Apache, DNS, SSH, SNMP, Perl and/or Shell.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication.
  • Experience with package installation, patch management updates, network & server management issues
  • Experience in fast-pace chaotic, ambiguous consumer web environment is a big plus.

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If this excites you, contact us or drop a mail with your resume to ninjas (at) bitrhymes (dot) com

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