Senior Cloud Services Engineer: Level Ex, Inc.

Located in Chicago’s River North area, Level Ex’s fast-growing game studio is transforming the way surgeons hone their skills by practicing high-risk surgeries with the latest medical devices in our industry-leading mobile, AR, and VR titles. Our games are built using state-of-the-art graphics and physics tech, and deploy an arsenal of well-designed game mechanics to capture the thrill and challenge of performing real surgery. These games increase dramatically in difficulty as the player progresses, and are carefully crafted with professional level design, compulsion loops, flow channels, and deliberate gameplay balance. Backed by a mature art pipeline and latest-gen engine tech, we’re able to recreate surgery with spectacular realism. Our engine has earned the trust of the country’s leading physicians; plus, we’ve custom-built GPU-based real-time fluids, tissue shading, and soft-body systems that enable a wide range of new game mechanics in mobile and VR. Our team unites award-winning game designers, developers, and artists with industry-leading surgeons, all passionate about using game design approaches to keep doctors across the world performing at the top of their game. We’re looking for a talented, experienced Senior Cloud Services Engineer to join our team.   What You’ll Be Doing with Us   -Owning and managing strategy and implementation for the ‘live’ elements of our products, including:  “game server” (leaderboards, achievements, groups/clans, etc.), persistent data storage, single-sign-on, analytics, notifications, attribution, etc. -Architecting backend systems -Coordinating with multiple departments on backend and analytics engineering needs -Managing and maintaining backend tools for mobile games -Integrating and configuring 3rd party backend solutions and SDKs   Who We Want To Meet -4+ years of experience working with backend tools and cloud services for games (analytics, notifications, etc.) -2+ years of experience with gaming as a service provider, such as Playfab or Gamesparks -2+ years of experience in iOS & Android development -Strong programming knowledge in C# and JavaScript -Experience with Unity or other game engines -Knowledge and comfort with analytics tools i.e: Leanplum, DeltaDNA, etc. -Familiarity with AWS -Extensive database and remote API experience, including fluency in SQL   How We Make You Happy -Creating games that actually make a difference in people’s lives -Competitive salary -Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays -Medical, dental and vision benefits -401k plan w/matching, flex spending account, and commuter benefits -Unlimited cold brew coffee, beer, and tasty snacks   -Flexible, reasonable work schedules in a focused team environment   Interested?   Here’s an interview that appeared in the Chicago Tribune last year about the studio. Send us your resume and a cover letter why you’re a fit for this key role at careers@level-ex.com. We look forward to hearing from you and exploring the possibilities.