Software Engineer (Business Intelligence) Pocket PlayLab - BKK Office

By Joakim_PPL on 10 September 2014 - 14:51 Tag:

Are you talented & passionate gamer? Do you dream about playing games for living? Pocket PlayLab wants YOU to join our team as a Software Engineer (Business Intelligence)!

We are a leading game developer & publisher, capable of producing social games from inception to completion. We are the home of popular game titles Juice Cubes and Jungle Cubes, with many more on the way! In two years of mobile game development, our games have achieved over 22 million downloads around the world.

Pocket PlayLab was founded in January 2012 by a handful of passionate gamers. Now, we are a group of 80+ game enthusiasts ranging more than 13 nationalities. We are a curious, creative, close-knit, fun-loving bunch. We have a unique way of doing things - the Pocket PlayLab way. It’s how we innovate, collaborate, operate and deliver value for our customers.

We are looking for dynamic, & team-oriented individuals to join our rapidly growing company as we continue forward to the next level.

The role

As a software engineer working with business intelligence your prime responsibility is to create and maintain our business intelligence (BI) platform used throughout our games.

This means you will be doing everything from working with game teams to ensure they are using the BI platform in the best possible way to creating reports defined by our BI analysts.

Our backend uses technologies such as Ruby (mostly RoR), eventmachine, MySQL, Redis and Cassandra. You will probably work with that, as well as using something completely new for our BI platform. Which new technologies we will bring in is very much up to you.

What you would be doing:

Collaborate with the rest of the backend team and our business analysts to make sure we track all the right things.

Run analyses that span millions of users.

Get hands-on experience with building a scalable BI-platform for our business analysts.

Create a platform that generates daily and weekly reports about our users.

Create one-off experimental research about our users.

Investigate and implement new technologies to improve our services.

About you

You have previously been working with business intelligence.

You have experience with or are very eager to learn more about technologies such as Hadoop, Storm and Amazon MapReduce.

You have experience with functional languages as well as OOP style languages.

You have experience doing using 3rd party API's such as Facebook, Twitter etc.

You are not afraid to dig deep into a problem.

You believe testing and documentation is an important part of your job.

You value maintainable software/systems.

You write clean easy to understand code.

You speak and write English.

Open source contributions is a plus.

What we look for in all new employees

Gets things done and think about the long term impact of their work.
An eagerness to learn more.
Fun to be around even when all systems have gone haywire.
Bonus & Perks

Opportunity to grow with the company;
An amazing workplace with super fun gaming and break areas;
Attractive salary package;
Free daily lunch, snacks and drinks;
12 days of Vacation plus 13 days of public holidays per year;