Gearbox Entertainment Looking for Developer, IT at Frisco, TX Full Time

The Gearbox Entertainment Company is an award-winning creator and distributor of entertainment for people around the world. Gearbox Entertainment develops and publishes products through its subsidiaries, Gearbox Software and Gearbox Publishing. Gearbox Entertainment has become widely known for successful game franchises including Brothers in Arms and Borderlands, as well as acquired properties Duke Nukem and Homeworld. Gearbox’s ambition is to entertain the world and its key driving objectives include the pursuit of happiness for our talent, partners and customers, the prioritization of entertainment and creativity and a measured respect for profitability. For more information, visit www.Gearbox.com.

The Gearbox IT department is looking for an experienced IT Developer to join our team. You’ll be comfortable working as part of an agile team supporting the entire studio. You’ll build, test, and deploy a suite of applications, then make improvements and do it all over again. Your applications will be stable, secure, and performant. You’ll own your work top to bottom, front to back, and never throw it over a wall. You’ll use Ruby heavily throughout the infrastructure (as well as Python, PHP, and Powershell) but you’re most interested in using the right technology to solve the right problem. You’re enthusiastic, recognizing there are any number of areas in which you can make an impact.

Responsibilities:

• Build, test, and deploy a suite of applications
• Analyze and implement improvements on applications
• What you might work on:
• A test and deployment mechanism, building or rebuilding from the group up so you’re pushing code fearlessly
• Integration between core studio services, so we can show developers anything from the new hire who started last week to the PC bonus they have coming next week
• An app used by coders, artists, and designers to find the digital equivalent of a needle in a haystack
• User experiences that don’t make developers cry, unless it’s tears of joy
• A suite of tools for the IT Engineering team that saves them so much time they constantly give you high fives

Qualifications:

• Experience developing highly scalable RESTful services
• Sufficient knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to build internal tools
• Familiarity with our technology stack (Linux, Windows, MySQL, Ruby, Docker)
• Real-world experience with Amazon Web Services
• Mission oriented and self-driven
• Passion for delivering an outstanding customer experience
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to work in an agile environment
• Self-driven and able to function on a geographically disperse team
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience working on games or mobile app backends
• Full-stack experience including C, C++
• Experience with Go
• Knowledge of a CI/CD tool (TeamCity)
• Experience with Websockets/WAMP

Gearbox Entertainment believes that all team members should be able to enjoy a work environment free from all forms of discrimination and harassment. We are committed to reflecting the diversity of the world we strive to entertain. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we provide fair and equal treatment to all team members and applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law.