Software Engineer, Niantic
Client
$150.5-176k
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Augmented reality software development
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Augmented reality software development
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$150.5-176k
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Niantic's mission is to shape a future where technology enables novel robotics, computing, and entertainment experiences, focusing predominantly on augmented reality games.
Role
Who you are
- You have a BS in Computer Science or other technical major, or equivalent experience
- You have published at least one mobile app to the app store (iOS or Google)
- You can work in multiple programming languages; C# for Unity, Java in Android, Obj-C in iOS, C/C++ mobile native
- 1+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others
Desirable
- You have experience working with a ‘AAA’ game engines (Unreal, Unity, Lumberyard, Frostbite, etc.) or proprietary game engine
- You have work experience with Unity on mobile devices in Android and iOS
- You have 3D game engine experience, particularly in Unity3D
- Experience in optimization, systems architecture, profiling, tooling, and reporting
- You are experienced with profiling and optimization for mobile
What the job involves
- Pokémon GO is a 1st party development studio within Niantic. As a client developer you will have an opportunity to work on a diverse set of client features
- From the social aspects of Pokémon GO integrating shared service technologies which enable our players to interact in a safe and respectful manner that is both fun and engaging
- To the features that allow players to explore the world of Pokémon GO
- Creating experiences that further enhance the world of Pokémon GO and drive players to get out and explore the world
- Or possibly the features that allow players to interact in the cooperative and competitive interactions of Pokémon GO, Player versus Player (PvP), Raid and Gym battling
- Client engineers in this area work closely with server engineers to ensure that the moment player experience is responsive and engaging
- We are constantly improving all aspects of the ecosystem that is Pokémon GO
- Build engaging features on the Unity game client
- Debug sophisticated projects built on Unity
- Perform load and performance testing, participate in code reviews, write unit tests, and conduct troubleshooting to ensure uptime for live systems
- Work together with Game Designers to design and develop game features for Pokémon GO
- Work closely with Pokémon GO server engineers to ensure solutions are high quality and scalable
- Ensure the Niantic engineering organization constantly improves its development best practices
- Mentor junior client engineers on technical solutions
- Operate directly with studio engineering managers and partner platform teams
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings
Our take
Niantic, Inc. is a software development company creating augmented reality mobile games, such as Ingress, Pokémon Go, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, that encourage players to go outside, explore, and meet people. The company was formed in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. Since its inception, hundreds of millions of people have used its products and services.
Although Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the success of Pokémon Go, the company is hoping to become a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. In 2022, it released a location mapping software for AR, allowing AR experiences to be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone’s camera view.
Niantic plans to use this platform for an AR-based metaverse, an alternative to Meta’s plans for a VR-based metaverse that renders us bound to VR headsets. The company believes that an AR metaverse on a 3D map of the world will play a critical role in the next transition in computing, and raised funds to make this vision a reality in 2021.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$245m
SERIES C
Total funding: $774.3m
Company benefits
- Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance including 100% paid employee healthcare
- 100% of premiums for long term and short term disability and life insurance
- Mental healthcare on-demand by Spring Health
- Increasing paid time off with tenure, separate sick time accrual, five flex days per year to attend Niantic community events or volunteer
- Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Years
- 16 weeks of parental leave for parents, parental leave transition assistance by Cleo, Carrot fertility benefit
- 401k Match, equity options, compare and refinance loans with Credible’s online loan marketplace
- Cold breakfast, hot lunch and snacks all day, every day
- Cell-phone, gym, and internet reimbursements, pre-tax commuter benefits, employee discounts via Fond
- Employee donation match of up to $500 per year
- Wellness activities including yoga and meditation, volunteer off-sites, employee Resource Groups
Company HQ
Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Hanke
(CEO)Having studied for an MBA at UCB, John worked as a Producer for 3DO before co-founding Big Network and Keyhole. He then spent over 11 years at Google as VP of Product, before leaving in October 2015 to found Niantic.
Phil Keslin
(CTO)Prior to Niantic, Phil was acontributor to StreetView, GMail and Lively products while at Google. Additionally Phil was a GPU Architect at NVIDIA and a key contributor to the design and development several of their GPUS.
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