Principal Engineer - Back End Design

Join Twyngo! Twyngo is hiring! We're technologists with a vision of creating the world's most fun games.
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Email us at: unni@twyngo.
com Why Twyngo? At Twyngo our vision is to build games that take true advantage of the power of smartphones and tablets.
As a member of Twyngo's development team you will be on the forefront of this revolution.
We offer: An awesome work location in Menlo Park at the heart of the silicon valley Competitive Compensation Excellent Benefits including health care and 401k A great team which implements the best ideas from wherever they originate Twyngo creates innovative mobile games that harness the full potential of today's smartphone and tablet hardware.
Twyngo, Inc.
is looking for an exceptionally talented and experienced principal engineer with the drive to create pioneering games for the ever-expanding global mobile market.
Specifically, the Principal Engineer will be responsible for the technical design and implementation of the scalable middle and persistence layers for all of Twyngo’s mobile games and platform.
The candidate must have deep technical expertise in designing and building from the ground up a massively scalable server architecture that delivers end user performance within tight QoS bounds.
Ideally the candidate should draw upon experience from implementation of large multiplayer game or social networking infrastructure.
Required Experience and Education Demonstrable experience in architecting and implementing complex middle-tier and back-end tier software systems that support end user performance within tight QoS parameters 7-10 years creating large scale, high performance and fault tolerant systems BS or Higher in computer science or related field from well established university.
Core Required Technical Skills SQL (e.
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MySQL or the equivalent) expertise NO SQL (e.
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MongoDB or the equivalent) expertise Cloud deployment expertise Java, Ruby on Rails, Scala or any equivalent mid-tier expertise Strong demonstrable software architecture expertise Strong demonstrable programming expertise Ideal Additional Technical Skills Experience with location based services environments Experience dealing with large scale map data and map APIs Experience designing and implementing reliable system daemons Mobile device client-side programming expertise C++, Objective-C Required Soft Skills Track record of working in environments with incompletely defined or evolving specifications Ability to contribute to creative direction of product which would involve iterating with game designers and product managers Must be able to create accurate work estimates and forecasts