JavaScript Game Developer at Kids Coding Company at Kodable (Sunnyvale, CA)

When you start making games at Kodable, you’ll be creating games that engage kids around the world in a meaningful way. You’ll have the opportunity to gain expertise in a variety of areas including game frameworks, game design, UI, networking, optimization and everything else in between. You’ll direct development of all game-related features to ensure a seamless experience with all platforms. Kodable is multi-platform with a main codebase written in JavaScript using Cocos2d-X. We have production deployments for Web and iOS that routinely get 10s of thousands of users a day.

About the team:

The Kodable team is full of bright, ambitious people who are passionate about their jobs. You’ll work with a product team with over 50 years of collective experience creating top-notch games for companies like EA, Leapfrog, and Scientific Learning. Every member of the team has a voice in making Kodable great.

Work on a small, agile team building games used by hundreds of thousands of kids every week! Kodable is multi-platform with a main codebase written in JavaScript using Cocos2d-X and production deployments for Web and iOS. 

• Work directly with top-tier artists, game designers, and educators from Google, Cornell, Harvard, and more to build games that teach computer science to kids while *actually* being fun!


• You’ll develop on all parts of the Kodable game. Build and ship code that is immediately used by millions of kids!


• Work directly with the CEO and executive team to make sure everything you do has a impact on Kodable's key metrics, revenue, and ultimately our future

Who we’re looking for:

• You care deeply about programming education


• You have 1+ years of JavaScript development experience in a production environment 


• You have 1+ years experience in game development using frameworks such as Cocos2d, Unreal, Unity, XNA, LibGDX, Pygame, etc


• You have released, or been a significant part of the public release of a game (doesn't need to be anything major like a Nintendo game, but ideally something that got a few users)

Highly Preferable (but not required) if:

• You have experience with any Cocos2d frameworks (Cocos2d-X, JS, iPhone). If you don't - that's ok! We can help you learn


• You have experience with networking and interfacing with server-side code (saving/loading data, offline syncing, etc)


• You have experience building and deploying multi-platform games (deploying to Web and iOS, for example)

Bonus Points if:

• You have experience with REST APIs and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Vue, or React


• You have experience working with a JavaScript game framework in a production environment, or experience with a game framework such as Unity and accompanying experience with JavaScript in a production environment.


• You know COBOL and are an expert at punch-card coding 

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