Jobs

Jobs at Raptr

If you like to work in an environment that is filled with hard-working people who also like to have fun, then you may be a good fit for Raptr. You can see how we describe ourselves in the about section but the best way to get a flavor for who we are is to check out our blog, where you can get an feel for why working at Raptr is awesome.

As a company that’s focused on creating great experiences for gamers, we’re surrounded by games and gamers. We’ve got a corner filled with classic arcade games, an Xbox 360 and PS3 hooked up to a big plasma screen TV, and even a ping pong table that gets regular use (not all games have to be video games!)

The kitchen is always stocked with all sorts of caffeinated beverages, and a bevy of snacks to keep you going throughout the day. And of course there’s the kegerator that pours great beer and comes in handy after putting in a good day of work.

For any full-time job with Raptr (we’re located in Mountain View, CA), we provide great healthcare benefits (100% health benefits for the employee and 50% for your spouse and any dependents) and stock options in a well-funded, growing private company.

Check out our open positions below and submit your resume to jobs@raptr.com. Please be sure to paste a copy of your resume directly in the body of the email.

Current Openings

• Data Scientist
• Senior Desktop App Engineer
• Senior Backend Engineer
• Senior Frontend Engineer
• Product Manager
• User Experience Designer
• Account Manager
• Customer Service Representative

Data Scientist

Raptr is looking for an accomplished, highly motivated Data Scientist to become a key influencer on our team.

Data is what fuels Raptr. We use product-related metrics to provide feedback on what our users are doing across our site, desktop app, and iphone app. And because we track game play across a wide variety of platforms, Raptr has insight unique to the entire gaming industry. With billions of minutes of playtime being tracked per month, we can provide our partners invaluable analytics-driven behavioral patterns such as what other games their users are playing, and what games are beginning to encroach upon their userbase.

As Raptr’s Data Scientist, you will be reporting to the VP of Engineering and interacting with the entire executive team. You must have a solid foundation in statistics, algorithms, and mathematics, and be familiar with the technology we are currently using (e.g.: Hadoop / Python) while looking to introduce new technologies to improve our data platform and analytics. You will need to be tenacious and creative about finding answers to known questions as well determining what the right questions to ask are. Finally, you need to be able to present your findings creatively, through appropriate data visualizations and story-telling.

Required skills:

• 5+ years of experience in engineering roles, with 2 years focused on ‘big data’.
• An expert in Python, also having PHP experience.
• Intimately familiar with open-source technologies such as no-sql (we use Cassandra), hadoop, pig, hive.
• Show evidence of staying at the cutting edge by selecting appropriate new technologies, deploying them in a production environment, and contributing back to the open source community.
• Have a history of building out an infrastructure that ensures continued data and analytical scalability.
• Experience in interpreting web analytics to provide actionable insight into user/product behavior.
• Excellent presentation and data visualization skills.
• Capable of not just presenting data results, but also interpretation of the results, including what product changes could affect the results. We need actionable insight, not just insight.
• Undergraduate degree in CS, graduate degree in Mathematics, Statistics, or Machine Learning.
• Strong interest in PC/Console/Web games.

How to Apply for the Data Scientist

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Senior Backend Engineer

Raptr is looking for an outstanding, highly motivated Senior Backend Engineer to join our team.

We need someone who has experience building large-scale web sites and enjoys collaborating with small-sized teams. We are looking for an individual who has been instrumental in creating a scalable backend infrastructure for a highly-trafficked consumer web site, can write high quality code, have excellent communication skills, love solving complex problems, and are also looking to provide a voice in product design and direction.

Required skills:

• Ability to write solid, tight, well-architected code (PHP, Python and Perl).
• 3+ years of experience in design & development of commercial web applications. Experience in design implementation of large scale, high traffic consumer-facing portals is a huge plus.
• Knows the trade off between server side performance and features. Having the ability to come up with innovative solutions to scalability and performance problems.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals (we mean it, and we’ll test for it!).
• Experience with the LAMP stack, particularly PHP5.
• Experience with Active MQ or equivalent.
• Familiarity with Memcached.
• Expert in SQL and database schema design, and in particular, MySQL.
• Experience in building out a metrics / analytics / business intelligence system.
• Experience in object oriented (OO) design & programming.
• Creative thinker who thrives in a small-team environment.
• BS/MS in Computer Science.
• Highly motivated, self-starter, detail oriented.
• Good sense of humor :)
• Passion for the gaming industry is a huge plus.

How to Apply for the Sr. Backend Engineer Position

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Senior Frontend Engineer

Raptr is looking for an accomplished, highly motivated Senior Frontend Engineer to join our team.

As Sr. Frontend UI Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing Raptr’s user-facing applications on the web. We’re looking for individuals with solid, deep web UI development skills and experience, have an eye for clean and elegant interfaces, who are competitive yet collaborative, and have an interest in gaming.

Required skills:

• 5+ years of experience in developing web applications.
• Solid grasp of cross-browser, object-oriented JavaScript (e.g.: you know how to design an object with private member fields, how inheritance works in JavaScript, etc.).
• Significant experience in developing AJAX-enabled web applications.
• Experience in coding standards-compliant semantic markup in XHTML/CSS, priding yourself in using best practices when writing clean, optimized code.
• Knowledge of and a preference for JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, YUI, prototype, Dojo, etc.
• Awareness / familiarity / preference of HTML5 and CSS3 – Raptr only supports ‘modern’ browsers!
• Experience developing in an OOP and MVC architecture.
• Experience in building end consumer web applications in PHP.
• Strong interest in PC/Console/Web games.

How to Apply for the Sr. Frontend Engineer Position

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The ideal candidate has strong experience building desktop applications. You write high quality, tight and efficient code; know what it takes to ship a solid application to millions of users, and how to support those users; have excellent communication skills, love solving complex problems, and are also looking to provide a voice in product design and direction.

Required skills and experience:

Ability to write solid code in Python (being capable in C/C++ in addition is a plus).
• Have written, shipped, and supported a consumer PC application written in either wxWidgets or Qt (wxPython / pyQt is a big plus).
3+ years of experience in design & development of desktop applications.
• Understanding of the trade-offs between performance, memory utilization, and features.
Ability to come up with innovative solutions to deliver functionality as tight and lean as possible.
• Strong computer science fundamentals. (We mean it, and we’ll test for it!)
Familiarity with the LAMP stack, particularly PHP5.
• Experience in object oriented design & programming.
Creative thinker who thrives in a small-team environment.
BS/MS in Computer Science.
Passion for the gaming industry is a huge plus.

How to Apply for the Sr. Desktop App Engineer Position

How to Apply for the Product Manager position

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User Experience Designer

Raptr is looking for a passionate, thorough user experience designer to develop and improve upon all user interactions and flows across all of Raptrs products: website, client, and mobile. We are a data-driven company and use both quantitative (analytics/surveys) and qualitative (user testing) research to influence our direction, but actually executing on that direction would be largely influenced by you. Note that this is not a visual design role, it’s a user experience and interaction design role. You will be working with our lead visual designer and product managers to execute well-tested, compelling experiences for our users.
Job Responsibilities:

• Identify high level problems with user experience and interaction and propose solutions.
• Multi-task across multiple projects and worth with visual designers, PMs, and researchers to iterate and optimize designs.
• Collaborate with product management to define and prioritize user experience issues.
• Develop wireframes and, where necessary, visual prototypes based on good heuristic principles and solid user experience intuition
• Participate in regular product reviews and strategic planning.

Job Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Interaction Design, HCI or related field, MS degree preferred (PhD a plus).
• 1-4 years of relevant work experience, including work on past products that had successful user experiences (even if the products themselves weren’t successful), including websites, client-side applications, and mobile apps (iPhone and Android).

The account manager is a new role for an individual to manage ongoing promotional campaigns for partners. This individual will execute on multiple campaigns, designed to encourage users to engage and use Raptr, while satisfying partner campaign goals.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with head of marketing and fellow marketing team members to help develop and execute marketing campaigns for game publishing partners using Raptr to generate interest in their games.
• Maintain a macro view of all campaigns and customers touchpoints to ensure that each campaign is driving optimal results in, and for competing campaigns to not cross one another.
• Provide metrics analysis and recommendations for senior management and the development team on opportunities for improving Raptr’s partner program.
• Assist a variety of ad-hoc marketing initiatives, as needed.

Skill Set and Experience:

• The ideal candidate will have 5+ years experience with online marketing.
• Previous marketing campaign experience, ideally working in the video gaming space, or at a marketing services agency.
• Strong data analysis skills – candidate should be very comfortable using excel to create reports and analyze data.
• General games industry knowledge & passion for video games is a huge plus.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Proactive self-starter who has the ability to hit the ground running with a limited amount of training. Positive “can-do” attitude.
• Ability to manage numerous marketing projects and see them through to completion within stated deadlines.
• College degree minimum.

How to Apply

If you’re interested in any of these positions, please submit your cover letter and resume to jobs@raptr.com. Please be sure to paste a copy of your resume directly in the body of the email.