Intermediate Game Developer

Prodigy Education, a global leader in game-based learning, is on a mission to make every student in the world love learning. We believe learning should be as fun as playing a video game. This is central to our educational philosophy, because when you love what you do, you do it better. Visit www.prodigygame.com to learn more.

With Prodigy, kids practice standards-aligned skills in Math and English as they play our fun, adaptive learning games. All with teacher and parent tools to support their learning in class and at home.

Role Summary

The Engineering team builds and operates a high performance, scalable, reliable, and secure technology platform that will allow us to transform education and deliver effective learning experiences to every student in the world. We do this by building for tomorrow, failing fast and early, and empowering each other to make things better. Interested in learning more about what we're working on? Visit the Prodigy Engineering blog at https://medium.com/prodigy-engineering

We're seeking an Intermediate Gameplay Developer to join our team working on our flagship math MMO game, utilized by 7 million students monthly. In this role, you'll have the chance to influence the way millions of students engage with math through gaming, enriching both their learning and enjoyment. You'll contribute to creating engaging online math experiences where students embark on quests, level up, and collect virtual pets, all while learning from an extensive range of 1500 math topics.

Your Impact

• Develop and implement improvements to the games enemy spawning and encounter systems
• Participate in code reviews to ensure codebase quality, identify areas for improvement, and contribute to the development of team best practises
• Test code rigorously to identify and resolve bugs, delivering reliable and polished features
• Collaborate with product owners,designers and artists to bring game concepts to life.

About

• You have a sincere love for gaming and bring at least 3 years of experience in game development.
• You're equally as proficient in both building upon existing code and creating new systems.
• You are a proactive learner who actively seeks out new technologies and willingly share your knowledge with the team
• Your communication skills are excellent, enabling effective teamwork and the ability to explain technical details to non-technical team members.

Bonus Points

• Experience working on Live service games or RPGs

Core Technologies

• Languages : Typescript
• Frameworks : PixiJS
• We use our own engine and editor built upon Pixi.js,React and Electron which we constantly improving

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