Software Dev Engineer, Game-Based Learning

Software Development Engineer

AWS Game-Based Learning Products is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join a fast-paced, startup-minded innovation team where fun is an integral part of your job. Joining our team, you will collaborate with a team of architects, artists, designers, engineers, and testers responsible for the conception, development and operations of highly technical game-based learning solutions that rely on extensive use of hands-on labs, virtual environments, and interactive simulations to get customers to develop practical skills using AWS services.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will partner with fellow backend engineers to build cloud services platforms that are foundational to our games; you will collaborate with Unity3d engineers to create rich gameplays; you will cooperate with designers and artists to develop a compelling end-to-end visual gaming experience; and you will assist learning architects and instructional designers map learning objectives and game elements to deliver a unique cloud learning experience to our players.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of architects, artists, designers, engineers, and testers to design, deliver, maintain, and operate multiple game-based learning products;
• Drive our system architecture and promote best practices to produce high quality games, and coach less tenured engineers;
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to influence our long-term strategy and establish the team's roadmap;
• Make data-driven decisions by leveraging industry landscape from engineering, gaming and training, as well as user feedback and telemetry data;
• Write high quality code.

A day in the life:

You will work with engineering and product stakeholders closely on a day-to-day basis. You will contribute to the production of multiple games and features and collaborate with other learning products teams (e.g.: AWS SkillBuilder, AWS Labs, AWS Jam, Exam Prep). You will solve, learn, and mentor team members on web-scale challenges, distributed systems problems, and game development best practices. You will regularly review technical work with peers, stakeholders, and leadership.

About the team:

AWS Game-Based Learning team members are spread across the US, Canada, and Brazil. Our mission is to build learning products that use game thinking principles. We combine learning strategies with game technologies and theories to develop appealing knowledge transfer experiences that target customer needs.

About AWS:

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