About the position
Volley is seeking a creative and product-focused engineer to join their team and help build exciting games in voice entertainment. The role involves shipping new features, improving the user experience, and collaborating with product designers. This is a great opportunity for game developers to gain hands-on experience in a cutting-edge platform. The job offers a hybrid work arrangement with on-site attendance in the Bay Area office. The ideal candidate should have coding experience, proficiency in NodeJS and/or Typescript, and strong communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Shipping new features to millions of users
- Improving the end-user experience
- Collaborating with world-class product designers
- Working on products that reach millions of active users
- Working on best-in-class voice-controlled products that are social, engaging, and fun to play
- Taking advantage of the powerful engine to build and iterate quickly
- Focusing on writing logic, not boilerplate
- Creating well-designed APIs that are consumed by all sorts of platforms
- Building consumer-facing apps or games at scale
- Architecting, implementing, and documenting multi-platform APIs
- Managing Automation & Deployment
- Contributing to open-source frameworks
- Operating in environments with fast development cycles focused on rapid product iteration
- Being part of a high-performing engineering team
- Onboarding with Typescript, the engine, and the deployment infrastructure
- Getting to know the immediate team, as well as partners in product, design, and data
- Deploying lots of new experiments, features, and fixes into production
- Working directly with the product to improve conversion, retention, and monetization for some of the most beloved games in the world
Requirements
- 3-5 years of professional coding experience
- Experience with modern NodeJS and/or Typescript or other strongly typed languages
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% covered for employees and dependents
- 401k matching
- Flexible hybrid work-from-home and in-office model
- 4 weeks of paid time off (minimum 2-week enforced), 16 paid holidays, 40 hours of bereavement leave, and unlimited sick days
- Generous parental leave policy with 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents and 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parents
- Visa support for eligible candidates for smoother relocation
- Competitive salary range of $128,947-$198,000 annually
- Inclusive workplace and commitment to building a diverse team
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge voice-controlled games and entertainment apps
- Chance to gain hands-on experience in a high-performing engineering team
- Collaboration with world-class product designers
- Opportunity to work on products that reach millions of active users
- Use of a powerful engine for quick iteration and focus on writing logic
- Creation of well-designed APIs consumed by various platforms
- Onboarding with Typescript, the company's engine, and deployment infrastructure
- Collaboration with product team to improve conversion, retention, and monetization
- Opportunity to work with top voice-controlled experiences such as Jeopardy and Song Quiz
- Possibility of career growth and advancement within the company