Senior Software Engineer, Volley
Platform
$165.8-228k
3 days a week in office
Voice AI games
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Voice AI games
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$165.8-228k
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make everyday life a little more entertaining.
Role
Who you are
- 6-8 years of professional engineering experience, with expertise in platform and distributed systems
- Proven autonomy, leading complex technical initiatives
- Experience with SDKs, developer tooling, and internal frameworks
- Strong backend architecture and API design experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS Services (API Gateway, Load Balancers, S3)
- Problem-solving and debugging skills, focusing on scalability
- Collaboration skills, ensuring cross-team alignment
- Deep understanding of common database systems (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis)
Desirable
- Built scalable backend services for high-traffic applications
- Developed SDKs or internal tools to streamline development workflows
- Led architecture and strategy decisions for system scalability
- Worked with AWS, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures
- Mentored engineers, elevating technical standards
- Applied first-principles thinking, adapting to business needs
What the job involves
- The Platforms team at Volley is looking for an enthusiastic engineer with a strong background in building scalable backend services
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you are responsible for architecting and developing foundational systems from the ground up that will drive all of our games on TV platforms like FireTV, Roku, Samsung, and LG
- You will work closely with game engineers to understand their requirements and provide them with the necessary tools and capabilities to increase their velocity - allowing them to focus on making games fun
- This role requires autonomy, strategic thinking, and technical leadership, ensuring seamless development experiences for internal teams
- Develop and maintain backend services for identity, payments, leaderboards, and party systems
- Lead architecture strategy, ensuring scalable and maintainable infrastructure
- Build SDKs and developer tools to enhance internal engineering workflows
- Mentor teammates, fostering technical growth and best practices
- Collaborate cross-functionally, aligning platform solutions with business goals
- Drive process improvements, influencing engineering best practices
- Your first 90 days
- Onboard and understand Volley’s platform services and infrastructure
- Own critical backend services, ensuring stability and performance
- Deploy impactful improvements, optimizing backend efficiency
- Lead technical discussions, shaping platform strategy
- Mentor engineers, fostering best practices
- Ensure cross-functional alignment, refining platform services
Application process
- Stage 1 (Preliminary Screen): with our Senior Recruiting Lead
- Stage 2 (Engineering Panel): with various members of our engineering team
- Stage 3 (Onsite Interview): with various partners and team members
- Stage 4 (Founder Chat): with our Founders
- Stage 5 (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 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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