Armor Games is a online community for casual gamers. We offer an online destination hosting over a thousand flash games with new titles launching every week. We also produce game titles for both the Flash and iPhone platforms. We are a small company of passionate gamers and developers looking to add another member to our family.
We currently utilize a web stack consisting of PHP, Zend Framework, MySQL, CouchDB, Memcached & APC running on linux. Our platform drives both the website for our users as well as a set of web services for game developers. We are a high traffic site looking to evolve our platform and grow our community.
We Have a List of Buzzwords Too
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Linux, nginx, Apache, php5, Zend Framework, jQuery, CouchDB, MySQL, memcached, APC, HAProxy, EC2, SQS, CDN, SVN, VMware, Mac
What We Are Looking For
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+ Proven experience in PHP, Zend Framework and OO development patterns
+ A passionate web developer in touch with industry trends and technologies
+ Strong front-end experience implementing semantic markup with CSS and JS frameworks
+ A healthy respect for the user experience, browser compatibility and page performance
+ Ability to grok new concepts and technologies quickly and assess their value
+ Not afraid to break things every now and then; committed to fixing them when they do
+ Someone who can be resourceful, pragmatic and creative
+ An individual who can multi-task and self manage effectively
+ Ideally someone who is local (Irvine, CA) and can sit next to us and play some games
What You Will Do
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+ Particpate in architecting and implementing new features
+ Build and script web pages
+ Implement web services
+ Maintain current and legacy systems and pages
+ Brainstorm as part of the team new ideas
+ Troubleshoot and fix bugs
+ Performance tuning
What You Will Not Do
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- Fill out timesheets
- Write lengthy technical specifications
- Attend unnecessary meetings
- Create laboriously detailed project plans
- Use Outlook, wear a suite or eat at your desk
What’s Next
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If this sounds like something you might be interested in please consider submitting a resume and bit of code that exemplifies your work to jobs@armorgames.com. We will do our best to respond to you as soon as we can.