MotiveCast is seeking experienced, Senior Game Designers to craft an exciting new range of social games that strongly leverage location services. Qualified candidates will have experience designing mobile, console, or PC games. To be considered for the position, you'll have a great understanding of social gaming, and a genuine excitement for it's potential in the mobile smartphone space.

At MotiveCast, we're building the most exciting and revolutionary mobile, social games!

Not sure if this is your gig? Here's what you're in for with MotiveCast:

• Creating and pitching game design concepts that take advantage of the MoCa location platform
• Executing on design concepts that will be released to millions of loyal fans the world over
• Mastering the art of storytelling within a deeply engaging game catalog
• Analyzing real-time data on game usage and flexing that information to optimize the experience for your players
• Expertly applying known and new monetization methods to make your games financially successful
• Working hand in hand with Engineering and Production to tackle day to day challenges

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of game design experience
• Experience or knowledge of traditional board game, card game, or dice game design
• Experience designing balanced combat and/or system mechanics
• Strong knowledge of game balancing and pacing
• Management experience preferred
• Adept with Excel/spreadsheets and wireframe/flow tools
• Passionate gamer

Interested?  Please send an email to legends@motivecast.com to apply. Please include an explanation of why you think you are a good fit for this position in addition to your resume.

MotiveCast is looking for a Product Manager who can help drive the creation of new features on MotiveCast’s top games! The Product Manager will add experience, direction, and measurable performance to the game design process.

At MotiveCast, we're building the most exciting and revolutionary mobile, social games!

Responsibilities:

MotiveCast’s Product Manager will be responsible for creating a list of features to one of our hit games! This person will have to work independently to provide a detailed roadmap on the implementation process. The implementation process should include designing, executing, and optimizing the feature(s).  They’ll own the outcome of these new features by working with our talented team of engineers to get the features implemented.

Required Skills:

• 2-5 years of experience  in product management in consumer web or game development
• Must be able to graphically create wire-frames and give interface direction to UI team
• Must have proven experience in contributing to a successful project or product in the past
• Experience with multivariate testing
• Experience with a web based company managing web based applications
• Passion for creating fun, compelling and addictive user experiences
• Passion for writing product specifications, white papers
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Strong organizational and analytical skills & attention to detail
• We are looking for an enthusiastic, performance-driven self-starter and team player
• Demonstrated capacity for developing and understanding strategy
• Strong aptitude for determining the optimal way to position products in the market
• Strong passion for games
• Previous start-up experience is a strong plus
• Social networking experience is a strong plus
• BA/BS degree – CS/EE/Engineering degree preferred

Interested?  Please send an email to legends@motivecast.com to apply. Please include an explanation of why you think you are a good fit for this position in addition to your resume.

We're looking for a senior systems administrator to help architect and manage all aspects of our systems and network infrastructure. If you've wanted to design a network to support immense traffic, set up critical HA systems in an environment that's adding tens of thousands of new users a day, now is your chance!  Our ideal candidate is a dedicated, methodical, energetic problem solver with exceptional tech skills, who can:

• Plan for the future of the site - identify needs, find solutions and then implement those solutions
• Design and deploy systems that meet our application-specific needs
• Monitor and model system stability, performance, and throughput
• Implement and maintain  all networking hardware, including new hardware installation and troubleshooting
• Harden internal and external networks, setup failover, capacity and load management strategies with rest of tech team
• Share in the 24x7 support needs for our systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years administering Linux systems
• 3+ years administering networks for a large scale web application
• 3+ years experience working in data centers
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols including TCP/IP and Ethernet
• Strong knowledge of AWS products
• Ability to write scripts to automate all routine tasks
• Experience deploying Hadoop a plus
• Experience deploying and managing a Cassandra cluster a plus
• Experience with multiple data center deployments a plus
• Experience with open-source databases (MySQL, Postgres) a plus
• Experience with LVS, DRBD, and other open-source infrastructure technologies a plus
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• You function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high
• Sense of humor and a positive attitude are non-negotiable

Interested?  Please send an email to legends@motivecast.com to apply. Please include an explanation of why you think you are a good fit for this position in addition to your resume.

Your problem solving abilities and coding skills will be your most valuable assets. You must be a master of object-oriented design and an expert in CS fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and their performance characteristics. You should be able to efficiently identify the root cause of a problem, and design solutions that follow industry best practices.This is a challenging and highly technical role, requiring strong initiative, platform leadership and product to market experience in delivering a leading-edge mobile solution.

Requirements:

• Coding rock star – lives and breathes code
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD a plus)
• Extensive experience with Java and SaaS/Cloud platform development including detailed understanding platform performance and scalability
• Actual experience building and supporting production grade, high-volume SaaS/Cloud platforms
• Practical experience performance tuning applications a must
• GeoSpatial and/or location based service experience a plus
• Deep knowledge with
  • Unix/Linux/Mac OS X
  • Java frameworks (Spring, Hadoop)
  • Databases (Postgres, Cassandra)
• Practical Agile development lifecycle experience
• Ability to deliver well documented code and customer facing documentation
• Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems
• Start-up experience -- Innovative and entrepreneurial driven
• Experience building and releasing 'shrink-wrap' and hosted products in competitive landscapes
• Proven start-up experience in complex engineering environments
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills
• Self starter with the ability to multitask

Interested?  Please send an email to legends@motivecast.com to apply. Please include an explanation of why you think you are a good fit for this position in addition to your resume.

Your problem solving abilities and coding skills will be your most valuable assets. You must be a master of object-oriented design and an expert in CS fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and their performance characteristics. You should be able to efficiently identify the root cause of a problem, and design solutions that follow industry best practices.This is a challenging and highly technical role, requiring strong initiative, platform leadership and product to market experience in delivering a leading-edge mobile solution.

Requirements:

• Coding rock star – lives and breathes code
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD a plus)
• Extensive experience with Java and mobile development including detailed understanding of Google Android mobile development platform
• Practical experience performance tuning applications a must
• Understanding of Android hardware limitations a must
• Augmented reality experience a plus
• Deep knowledge with
  • Unix/Linux
  • Java frameworks
  • Mobile UI development
• Practical Agile development lifecycle experience
• Ability to deliver well documented code and customer facing documentation
• Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems
• Start-up experience -- Innovative and entrepreneurial driven
• Experience building and releasing 'shrink-wrap' and hosted products in competitive landscapes
• Proven start-up experience in complex engineering environments
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills
• Self starter with the ability to multitask

Interested?  Please send an email to legends@motivecast.com to apply. Please include an explanation of why you think you are a good fit for this position in addition to your resume.

Your problem solving abilities and coding skills will be your most valuable assets. You must be a master of object-oriented design and an expert in CS fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and their performance characteristics. You should be able to efficiently identify the root cause of a problem, and design solutions that follow industry best practices.This is a challenging and highly technical role, requiring strong initiative, platform leadership and product to market experience in delivering a leading-edge mobile solution.

Requirements:

• Coding rock star – lives and breathes code
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD a plus)
• Extensive experience with Objective-C and mobile development including detailed understanding of iPhone mobile development platform
• Practical experience performance tuning applications a must
• Understanding of iPhone hardware limitations a must
• Augmented reality experience a plus
• Deep knowledge with
  • Unix/Linux/Mac OS X
  • Mobile UI development
• Practical Agile development lifecycle experience
• Ability to deliver well documented code and customer facing documentation
• Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems
• Start-up experience -- Innovative and entrepreneurial driven
• Experience building and releasing 'shrink-wrap' and hosted products in competitive landscapes
• Proven start-up experience in complex engineering environments
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills
• Self starter with the ability to multitask

Interested?  Please send an email to legends@motivecast.com to apply. Please include an explanation of why you think you are a good fit for this position in addition to your resume.