Senior Software Engineer, Volley
Platform
$165-210k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Voice AI games
Open for applications
Voice AI games
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$165-210k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make everyday life a little more entertaining.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone who is curious, empathetic, excited to learn, and a creative problem-solver
- 6+ years of professional coding experience
- Have designed apis, services, and platforms in a robust manner at scale
- Ability to make pragmatic decisions based on business needs
- A passion for code quality, design patterns, and architecture
- Experience with modern NodeJS and Typescript or other strongly typed languages
- Passion for entertainment and games
Desirable
- Helped build consumer-facing apps or games at scale
- Built new infrastructure or services used by others
- Operated in environments with fast development cycles focused on rapid product iteration
- Worked with audio, voice, or other emerging technologies
What the job involves
- Volley is looking for engineers to help us build the future of fun, casual, voice-powered games
- In this role, you will be responsible for shipping features that improve the end-user experience while ensuring high software quality and collaborating with product, design, and other stakeholders. You will also help the technical growth of engineers on your team while promoting work-life balance
- We have big plans to expand our range of games and the number of platforms we support. We're a small and diverse team that delivers outsized impact through smart technical investment
- We have multiple positions open for Senior Software Engineers on teams responsible for Shared Services (things like Auth, social graph features, and speech recognition), the backend team for the Faceoff mobile game (responsible for game logic and user management), and Core Tech (the infrastructure that underpins all of our games)
- This role is for our Core Tech team supporting a wide variety of products that will be deployed to a wide variety of devices including, smart speakers, smart TVs and smartphones
- Work on products that reach users on multiple platforms (Roku, Fire TV, Alexa, and mobile) and across several games
- Coordinate the work across multiple teams to ensure that solutions meet needs of our products and business
- Help develop best-in-class voice-controlled products that are social, engaging, and fun to play
- Architect and deliver solutions for our products that are reliable, pragmatic, and scalable
- Collaborate with UX experts, designers, and data analysts to deliver products quickly and effectively
- Your first 90 days
- Onboard into Volley's backend and deployment infrastructure
- Take the lead on product roadmap discussions with your product manager
- Familiarize yourself with the project architecture and lay out a technical roadmap
- Deploy lots of new experiments, features, and fixes into production
- Work directly with the product to improve conversion, retention, and monetization for our games
Application process
- Stage 1 (Preliminary Video Call) with a member of our recruitment team
- Stage 2 (Behavioral Screen Video Call) with one of our engineering managers
- Stage 3 (Technical Screen Video Call) with one of our engineers
- Stage 4 (Full-day Virtual “On-Site”) with various partners and team members
- Stage 5 (Founder Chat) with our Founders
- Stage 6 (Offer)
Our take
Volley is carving a niche in the gaming industry by developing voice-enabled games. By leveraging advanced AI capabilities, Volley provides a gaming experience where players interact with games purely through voice commands.
The success of Volley's games underscores its appeal across diverse demographics, with over 5M people playing its games monthly. Recognizing the transformative potential of AI in gaming, Volley continues to push boundaries by enhancing its AI technologies.
This feat hasn't gone unnoticed by investors, with the company recently securing substantial funding. This infusion of capital will fuel the creation of new voice-controlled games and expand its portfolio to captivate new customers.
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Company benefits
- Healthcare, dental, and vision plans are fully covered by Volley for both employees and dependents
- Reimbursements for One Medical memberships
- 16 paid holidays
- 4 week vacation, with a 2 week minimum
- Parental Leave: 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parent, 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parent
- 40 hours bereavement leave per year
- Unlimited sick days
- Up to 8 weeks unpaid leave per year
- 4 weeks remote work per year
- Up to $250 per month for commuting (Lyft, BART, muni, gas, parking, etc). You may also use this towards WFH supplies
- Lunch in office M, T, W, & F
- $150 a month to cover Thursday lunches/lunches for other days you are not in the office. For permenetly remote employees, the stipend is $250
- $500 per year to help you grow your career
- You will recieve a Macbook Pro (or computer of your choice) upon starting
- Matched 401k plan through Guideline
Company values
- Best-in-Class: At Volley, we make the best products in the categories we choose to enter
- Play Together: Our products are designed to bring friends and families closer together. We also care deeply about nurturing this same spirit of togetherness in our work
- Shoot Your Shot: At Volley, we take calculated risks in new markets with the potential for massive rewards. We’re betting that the revolution enabled by voice technologies is just getting started and we want to lead the way forward
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Child
(CEO)Previously co-founded Streak Trivia where they served as an iOS Developer. They also worked at The Infatuation as a Writer and iOS Developer.
James Wilsterman
(CTO)Previously co-founded Streak Trivia. Prior to that, they were a Senior Analyst at First Manhattan Consulting Group.
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