Disruptor Beam is building a new generation of games for every screen, based on popular universes like Game of Thrones, Star Trek, and The Walking Dead. This is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing company, alongside a veteran team, working with some of the most iconic brands in entertainment.

The Platform team at Disruptor Beam works closely with a wide cross-section of the company, particularly game teams, data science, marketing, customer support, and quality assurance.

As a Front-End Developer for Platform, your first priority will be the creation of intuitive web interfaces for the critical tools we use to operate our business and empower development. In addition, you will be partnering with game teams and marketing to deliver game-specific content to our website as part of our efforts to project our games beyond the app (for example leaderboards and stores). Finally, you will also work with Unity UIs, both build new ones for Platform game systems, as well as generalize and clean up existing UIs for use in future games.

We are looking for people who are constantly leveling up their skills, and who can own a feature end-to-end: from gathering the requirements of our internal customers to implementing in code. Driving effective communication and anticipating the needs in intuitive designs are a key component of the role, as is a strong sense of ownership and autonomy.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with Platform engineers on projects that serve the entire company
• Create internal web tools to support use-cases with modern and intuitive web interfaces
• Overhaul internal web tools that require substantial design and implementation revamps
• Work closely with other teams to capture their tools needs and drive better requirements
• Design and implement game content widgets and stores for our publicly facing community site
• Create Unity UIs for Platform game services to be used in future and existing games
• Clean-up and generalize Unity UIs with high re-use potential for future and existing games
• Implement Unity Editor tools to facilitate and empower development

What We Seek:

• 3+ years professional experience in the role of Frontend Development
• A Gamer with a passion for games, entertainment art and functional and effective design.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to drive requirements
• Expert knowledge of HTML & CSS
• Expert knowledge of Javascript & jQuery
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Good understanding of modern web standards and cross-browser divergences
• Experience designing for tools, and game content UIs
• Experience with advanced Javascript libraries such as Angular and React
• Experience with and basic understanding of common web frameworks such as NodeJS and Rails
• Solid graphic design and compositional abilities using typography, layout, and color
• Strong intuitions about what makes for highly usable and enjoyable experiences that drive continuous engagement and social interaction
• Plus: previous Unity experience.

What You’ll Get

• Disruptor Beam offers a competitive, high-quality benefit programs to their employees designed to help support employees’ overall health, savings and retirement goals. Other programs help protect employees against income interruption and the financial effects of illness. Helping to support the needs of our employees and their families is a high priority for Disruptor Beam.
• We believe that rest unlocks creativity, so we encourage our employees to take advantage of our open vacation policy. Our employees take as much vacation as they want, when they want it, as long as they’re getting their work done.
• Start work earlier or later according to your inner clock as the core office hours don’t start until 10 am.

About Us

Disruptor Beam puts the world’s greatest entertainment franchises into every fan’s pocket. The Boston-area company builds story-rich mobile games that connect players around popular franchises including Game of Thrones, Star Trek, and The Walking Dead. Disruptor Beam released its first mobile game, Game of Thrones Ascent, in 2013, followed by the widely popular Star Trek Timelines in January 2016. The Walking Dead: March to War will launch in 2017. Disruptor Beam was founded by game industry veteran and entrepreneur Jon Radoff, and is backed by GrandBanks Capital, Google Ventures, Romulus Capital, and Converge Venture Partners. For more information visit www.DisruptorBeam.com

At Disruptor Beam, we celebrate, support, and thrive on hiring people from different and diverse backgrounds. Disruptor Beam is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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