Senior System Developer
We're redefining gaming by making it possible to play top quality games with a single click. Join us and work with the latest technologies to help shape the way games will be played in the future.
đź’Ş The mission
We are redefining the future of gaming by bringing professionally-made games to the browser.
Why is it important?
Billions of people surf the web daily to entertain themselves, reading blogs, watching movies, listening to music and much more. But what they have not been able to do is play high quality games. If you want to play professionally-made games, you either need to download and install game clients on your computer, or reach to your mobile for a more accessible experience.
By enabling professionally-made games to be played in the browser, more people are able to enjoy great games, and game studios can find brand new audiences.
How are we different?
Pley makes gaming easier than watching YouTube by allowing games to be played in the browser. No downloads. No installs. No paywalls. Just play. The time it takes to start playing a game on Pley is less than the time it takes to finish reading this sentence. Don’t believe us? Just visit www.pley.com and enjoy zero-friction gaming.
Our mission is to bring down the barriers to gaming by providing creators with tools that make their games truly accessible, easily discoverable, and virally shareable - with games just one click away from billions of potential players.
🎮 The role
We are looking for a skilled system developer to join our growing team and make an impact in our mission to build the best games platform, both for users and game developers. We are looking for someone who will be a solid individual contributor as well as a driving force for a strong technical vision in the team.
You will be working closely with other system and Unity developers in your team focusing on Pley's runtime SDK and tools for porting games from mobile to web. Your team’s mission is to enable mobile games to be run flawlessly in desktop web browsers. Your target user audience will consist of game developers at our customers (game studios) and of our internal development teams working on other parts of the Pley platform.
We are still a small team so you will have a strong impact in our company and engineering culture. We want to work with people who are curious and passionate about their craft.
For us, this is a long-term relationship, we believe our employees are our greatest assets and hope that you can grow with us, and have fun along the way :)
Tech stack
The tech stack for system development in our SDK & Tools portfolio is based on C/C++, C#, Javascript/TypeScript, WebAssembly and Emscripten.
Responsibilities
Researching, prototyping and implementing core functionality in the Pley SDK and the communication layer for interfacing with the Pley frontend (using C/C++/C#, Javascript/TypeScript)
Developing a set of tools to make the game porting process from mobile to web efficient and easy to operate
Assuming end-to-end ownership of complex technical projects and being a natural engineering counterpart to Product for planning and balancing the team’s roadmap
Analysing and improving game performance on the web
Improving our game build pipeline backend
🌟 About you
Technical skills
Mandatory:
Fluent in C++
Good knowledge of Javascript
Comfortable using various browser APIs
Experience building and shipping C++ on different platforms (e.g. Windows, macOS, Linux)
You know how to use these on the command line: git, CMake, gcc, npm, docker
Nice to have:
Experience designing C/C++/C# APIs for external customers
Some experience with Unity (ideally professional) and C#
Basic knowledge of Go and/or Rust
Prior experience of working on a SDK or a widely used native library
Knowledge of the LLVM backend
Experience doing basic binary analysis and reverse engineering (in particular, being able to read binary data and correlate with the schema): currently WASM, Unity Data, Dwarf.
Soft skills
Good at communicating; you enjoy teaching and explaining things to other developers.
Eager to learn and challenge yourself.
Pragmatic, curious, and not afraid of challenging problems.
Respectful of other people's skills and knowledge.
User-centric mindset and curiosity about product strategy and customer experience
Other
You enjoy a hybrid working environment.
Have a valid permit that allows you to work in Sweden.
⚡️ Our Process
Intro Call
Team Lead Interview
Technical challenge
Culture Interview
*We would love to meet you in-person during our process. Huge plus if you can have at least one interview in our office.
- Discipline
- Engineering
- Locations
- Stockholm
Stockholm
Perks & benefits
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Health
A healthy crew is a happy crew. We have 4000 SEK a year earmarked for you to pay for things like workouts, yoga, and massage. Oh, and you'll have 30 days of paid vacation to help with work-life balance.
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Education
We'll hook you up with a free Brilliant.org subscription so that you can acquire or brush up on any skills you want. Also, let us know if you'd like to order a book for the shared company library.
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Equipment
To perform excellent work you need excellent tools. We'll gear you up with the latest and greatest in smartphone and laptop tech, and slap a generous phone plan on top.
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Work = Play
Work tasks include playing games ;)
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Location
We're situated right in the middle of the popular Stockholmsverken district on Södermalm. A lively place with restaurants and bars that, together with innovative and creative companies, create a unique meeting place that just continues to grow.
There are great commuting options with pendeltĂĄg, subway (green and red lines), and blue buses (4 and 3) nearby.
Seriously playful
We're a small crew with large ambitions and a lot of faith in our mission. We value playfulness and curiosity as much as courage and candour, and believe that the journey is at least as important as the goal.
When we're not hammering away to reach a milestone or overcome a challenge, we're known to goof around and dissect various subjects far beyond what's reasonable.
We're in this boat together and value the input of one another highly. No discipline is more important than the other and we strive to keep a flat organization with a high degree of transparency to help keep us all rowing toward the same goal.
Our guiding principles
- Focus on creating value, not extracting value.
- Quality over quantity.
- Keep it simple.
- Make it fun.
About Pley
Pley is a Stockholm-based startup with the mission to make gaming easier than watching YouTube.
In other words, Pley makes it possible for anyone to enjoy new gaming experiences at a single click, and to invite friends simply by sending them a link. No downloads, no installs, no paywalls—just play.
Senior System Developer
We're redefining gaming by making it possible to play top quality games with a single click. Join us and work with the latest technologies to help shape the way games will be played in the future.
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