New York, NY or Remote - Canada (Eastern Time or Central Time)
Full-Time
About Pahdo Labs
We are a gaming startup building an anime-inspired creative RPG, mixing our favorite aspects of fighting games, role-playing games, and game making tools into one seamless social experience. We have raised over $17.5M in seed and Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Pear VC, BoxGroup, Neo, Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Eventbrite founder Kevin Hartz, and Cyan Banister.
We are seeing an explosion of interest in anime in the west: Jujutsu Kaisen, Genshin Impact, and collaborations in League of Legends/Fortnite are early indicators of a greater trend. As anime fans ourselves, we are incredibly excited to be building a 3D isometric action RPG with an anime-inspired theme, where players can create their levels and game modes in our multiplayer world.
The Role
As a software engineer at Pahdo Labs, you will leverage your expertise in gameplay engineering, engine programming, UI programming, backend/API development, and/or tools programming to help create an Action MMORPG and game creation platform built on top of Godot Engine. This is a rare opportunity to play a crucial and early role in helping create a category-defining live services title from scratch.
Our engineers are generalists, and work across the stack. You may build prototypes, tools, gameplay systems, live services, or infrastructure that will help us find the fun and deliver an exceptional user experience to our players and creators. You will have an outsized impact at a Series A gaming startup, joining a team of engineers from Riot Games, Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, Robinhood, and other top tech companies.
Responsibilities
- Build, test, and release gameplay systems, level and AI creation tools, or backend services
- Help deliver fun and engaging experiences for our players by iterating on internal and external player feedback
- Be a force multiplier to the team: mentor junior engineers, push process or code quality improvements, and be a subject matter expert
- Finish your mission and tasks with autonomy and be scrappy if necessary
Required Qualifications
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Ability to ship code quickly and build software with a product-first approach
- Strong problem-solving ability and willingness to iterate based on feedback
- 3+ years game industry or 4+ years of relevant engineering experience
- Desire to own key pieces of the product and see the real-world impact of your code
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with working with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with modern programming languages such as Go, C#, C++, Python, etc.
- Familiarity with database technologies such as PostgreSQL and distributed key-value stores
- Past experience or willingness to learn game and UI programming in Godot Engine
- Familiarity with web frameworks such as React and concepts such as unidirectional data flow
- Love of games, especially creative games like Minecraft, MMOs like WoW Classic, or action games like Hades
- Passion for empowering creators to do their best work and turn their imaginations into reality
Description of Your Work
- You will be building a multiplayer role-playing game with fast-paced action combat, with authoritative servers and prediction/rollback netcode
- You will be building a cloud-based no-code UGC map maker and game creation platform
- You will work in a modern tech stack using C++, C#, Go, Postgres, gRPC, Kubernetes, and an open source game engine (Godot)
- You will work in a tight-knit engineering team, collaborating with designers and artists to deliver fun gameplay and state-of-the-art UI/UX
Our Perks:
- Flexible paid time off with 2-week vacation minimum
- 100% employer-paid medical, vision, and dental insurance for the employee
- Base Salary Ranges:
- New York, NY:
- $130,000-$170,000
- Remote - Canada:
- CAD$120,000-160,000
If interested, please email us at hello@pahdolabs.com with a resume, and links to any portfolios that you can share!