Our Mission: \nTo capture the hearts and minds of millions of players across the world by creating unforgettable games powered by the best technology.\n\nAbout Us:\n\nPlayQ is a rapidly growing global entertainment and technology company delivering high-quality mobile titles and innovative game development solutions to a worldwide audience. Our games have been downloaded more than 60 million times across the globe, with millions of users playing every day! \n\nOur dedicated teams, based in downtown Santa Monica, CA, work together to craft the clever, visually stunning, and unforgettable experiences that our players love. Our emphasis on individual leadership means each team member has the opportunity to make a big impact, while our commitment to creative freedom gives them the ability to create whatever they can imagine. \n\nIt’s this mindset that has led us to develop our own IP, infuse games with rich storytelling, build our own development tools, and solve the deepest technical challenges - all in the name of disrupting the mobile gaming landscape.\n\nWhy you'll want to come to work:\n\nAs a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in spearheading the design, implementation, and maintenance of robust and scalable infrastructure solutions. You will manage DevOps engineering projects on the team, collaborate closely with our global game and services development teams, and automate processes to enhance overall company efficiency. You will be at the forefront of overseeing the design, creation and management of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and backend service deployments to ensure seamless and automated delivery of applications.\n\nIn this role, you will be instrumental in shaping the technological landscape, fostering innovation, and contributing to the success of PlayQ’s mission. You’d be an ideal fit for this role if you:\n\n\n* Possess a visionary mindset, shaping high-level architectures that power the future of gaming infrastructure.\n\n* Inspire and drive global teams of engineers, translating blueprints into resilient, scalable systems with a "can-do" attitude.\n\n* Roll up your sleeves and dive into technical challenges, leading by example and fostering a hands-on and solutions focused approach.\n\n* Display a proven track record of driving results, demonstrably reducing deployment time and optimizing performance\n\n* Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, collaborating seamlessly with global game and service development teams.\n\n* Possess a passion for learning and innovation, staying ahead of the curve in cloud technologies and DevOps best practices.\n\n* Embrace a fast-paced, collaborative environment, thriving in a culture where ideas are valued and teamwork is paramount.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you'll get to create:\n\n\n* Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly scalable and secure infrastructure solutions, collaborating closely with development teams to automate manual processes and boost overall team efficiency.\n\n* Architect and oversee efficient CI/CD pipelines built with TeamCity and GitHub Actions, ensuring seamless and automated delivery of game and service updates.\n\n* Architect and lead the development of our Python-based interactive Slack bot, ensuring scalability, robustness, and seamless integration with our internal systems and workflows.\n\n* Leverage proficiency in Bash, Python, and Kotlin to build and maintain robust automation scripts, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC configurations.\n\n* Architect and implement a robust, scalable infrastructure for game deployment using Harness, Terraform, and AWS cloud platform tools (EKS, S3, CloudFront, etc.).\n\n* Partner with cross-functional teams and engineers to streamline build and deployment processes, aligning them with business objectives.\n\n* Drive effective communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates and actionable insights into DevOps initiatives.\n\n* Proactively identify and implement innovative CI/CD and IaC tools and processes to continuously optimize workflows and efficiency.\n\n* Manage and document deployment processes and automation, fostering transparency and maintainability.\n\n* Proactively identify and implement innovative CI/CD tools and processes to continuously optimize workflows and efficiency.\n\n* Perform ongoing competitive research into industry best practices.\n\n* Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering a culture of growth and knowledge sharing.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring to the team: \n\n\n* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.\n\n* 8+ years of Software Development or DevOps experience\n\n* 3+ years of experience as an engineering lead, delegating tasks to key contributors \n\n* 3+ years of experience developing and maintaining Python scripts for automation tasks, CI/CD pipelines, and API integrations\n\n* Proven success in leading multiple engineering projects from execution to completion on time and within budget\n\n* Proven expertise in predicting obstacles and creating project plans that mitigate against risk and disruption\n\n* Strong expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS.\n\n* Expert proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.\n\n* Proven success in leveraging containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes\n\n* In-depth knowledge of CI/CD and IaC orchestration tools (TeamCity, Harness), version control systems (GitHub), and automated testing\n\n* Solid understanding of security best practices and compliance standards\n\n* Ability to effectively communicate complex, technical information to non-technical teams\n\n* Ability to independently troubleshoot and solution for common engineering challenges\n\n\n\n\nIf you gotten this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in PlayQ's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.\n\nWhat we can offer you:\n\n\n* Competitive compensation and equity options\n\n* Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, long term disability & pet insurance\n\n* Flexible time off\n\n* Unmatched learning opportunities and mission driven team\n\n* Advancement and mentorship opportunities\n\n* 401K plan with company match\n\n* Flexible Workplace: PlayQ’s workplace includes a combination of both in-office, hybrid and remote roles. Our flexible approach to the workplace experience, internal comms, and tech stack promote collaboration, communication, and camaraderie!\n\n* Brand new creative office space equipped with tons of natural light, communal areas for collaboration and free parking\n\n* Walking distance to restaurants, coffee shops, and the metro\n\n* Stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages\n\n* Monthly team building events and cross departmental lunches\n\n* Help build and support awesome GAMES. For a living! Who doesn't love games?\n\n\n\nAt PlayQ, we leverage competitive benchmarking data when setting each role’s base pay range. Individual base salary will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, scope of role, business need and geographic location.\nThe estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.\n$135,000-$180,000 USD\nAdditional information:\n\n* In-office location: Santa Monica, CA\n\n* This role is open to remote employees located in select US states including California, Washington, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and Georgia.\n\n* This role is offered as a full time position.\n\n\n\nInterested? Please get in touch! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Docker, DevOps, Cloud, API, Mobile, Junior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSanta Monica, California, United States

\nAppnovation helps brands thrive through innovative, people-inspired experiences and solutions. By embracing the powerful combination of technology and agility, we seamlessly integrate strategy, experience, design, development and analytics.\n\nWe create standout digital experiences by collaborating with brands to understand the individual challenges and goals for every initiative. Focusing on our clients’ customers, we effectively combine empathy, evidence and real-world insight so that solutions are derived from truth and meaning. Appnovation is an award-winning team dedicated to inspiring possibilities.\n\nTechnology is foundational to all of Appnovation’s offerings, from consulting to digital innovation, to digital product and service creation. The technology department is focused on delivering software solutions that enable rich consumer experiences, from mobile and web applications to advanced analytics and machine learning, to content and engagement management service enablement platforms.\n\nInherent throughout our tech capabilities is deep expertise in the Software Development Life Cycle, a drive for creativity, a passion for the craft, and collaboration with other disciplines - all foundational ingredients in successful digital experiences and client partnerships.\n\nThis role is based out of the Cardiff office with a lot of remote flexibility but can also be based out of our other offices which we have situated across the UK.\n\n \n\nYOU WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO:\n\n\nWorking within an agile and/or waterfall environment to identify any issues with product/testing requirements\n\nAssisting with preparation of all prescribed quality assurance artifacts including, but not limited to, Master Test Strategy and Plan, Functional Test Plan, etc.\n\nPreparing and participating in performance, and security testing as required\n\nConduct quality assurance defect tracking reports\n\nParticipating and/or reviewing documentation and test results in all QA test phases, such as requirements validation, unit, integration, functional, and regression testing\n\nDeveloping the QA Test Cases according to the Master Test Plan\n\nPerforming QA testing and report issues as required\n\nWalking through test cases and the test plan with the QA Lead prior to execution\n\n\n\n\n \n\nJOB SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS:\n \n\nAs an Associate Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst you will be responsible for providing QA support for a portfolio of projects, enhancements, and support initiatives. The role involves testing, planning, and working closely with the team of Developers and other QAs to ensure the product is meeting all quality standards.\n \n\nMust Haves:\n\n\n2+ years of formal testing experience\n\nUnderstanding of the quality assurance discipline, the defect lifecycle management processes, and the software commonly used for test planning and defect tracking (eg. Jira, Bugzilla, etc.)\n\nExperience in developing test plans, writing test scripts, developing use cases, implementing automated testing, executing test team activities, and assisting business users through user acceptance test processes\n\nExperience and knowledge of software quality tools (ie. test case management, project planning, defect management, automation)\n\nExperience with web/mobile application testing (browser compatibility, responsive testing, etc.)\n\nExperienced in web/mobile application technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, etc.  \n\nExperience testing in Window OS, Mac OS, Mobile OS (Android, iOS), etc.\n\nUnderstanding of user centric design principles, content, navigation, usability, behavioural analytics tagging, accessibility, SEO, localization/multi-lingual and personalization considerations\n\nUnderstanding of accessibility principles, standards, compliance, testing and validation\n\nUnderstanding of cloud computing architecture, services and platforms\n\nUnderstanding of DevOps principles, processes and tools (e.g. IaC, CI/CD and orchestration)\n\nUnderstanding of agile principles and methodologies\n\n\n\n \n\nNice to Haves: \n\n\nExperience with automated test scripting and implementation using BDD frameworks such as Behat or Cucumber\n\nExperience with testing APIs using tools such as Postman\n\nExperience with SQL and relational databases\n\nExperience with Python scripting and Pytest\n\nUnderstanding of security and privacy by design principles, process and tools\n\nUnderstanding of data driven and/or machine learning applications\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHO YOU ARE:\n\n\nProactive in raising potential risks/concerns\n\nAbility to multitask effectively on multiple projects and provide leadership\n\nAbility to identify potential risks and communicate to project leadership team\n\nFormal software testing training or certification\n\nAbility to take ownership of tasks and projects assigned with minimal supervision\n\nHighly collaborative and dynamic\n\nResults-oriented with creative problem-solving skills\n\nClient centric and responsive\n\nClear, concise, and articulate communication\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Analyst, DevOps, Cloud, Python and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nCardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

The Salesforce team at Georgia Tech is hiring a **Lead Salesforce Architect**! Georgia Tech is growing their Salesforce team to support recruitment operations, student success initiatives (Advisor Link), and create great student experiences. The Lead Architect role will be responsible for planning several key existing and new integrations, controlling the data model, and ensuring proper solution design. We are looking for a team member that is passionate about creating great student experiences and developing new, innovative solutions to solve problems throughout a student's lifecycle. Salesforce experience is a preferred skill and not a requirement, but the candidate must have a very strong architect background with transferrable skills. This position is **fully remote**.\n\nWorking for Georgia Tech has many great benefits including great health/vision/dental insurance, fringe benefits, retirement options, flexible work schedules, healthy work/life balance, great vacation/sick benefits (15 vacation days per yr accrual for new employees to a max of 45 days carry-over), and even tuition assistance programs for furthering your education (tuition for most degrees is fully covered). In addition, GT has 4.4 stars on Glassdoor.com and is a great place to work if you want to be in a positive environment where you can see your work impact student success and outcomes rather than just chasing quarterly projections. \n\n# More Information\nThe Salesforce Architect is responsible for the technical architecture of Salesforce Applications and a trusted advisor and platform expert across Georgia Tech. If you're passionate about innovation, come help revolutionize how the Institute interacts with students across their lifecycle.\n\nAs responsible for the technical architecture, the Salesforce Architect supports the existing Salesforce landscape and designs and oversees the implementation of enterprise applications focused on the Salesforce platform. It also is responsible for mentoring the developer team and defining and enforcing all technical standards. As a trusted advisor, the Salesforce Architect demonstrates the capabilities of the platform and instructs an audience of IT and business stakeholders how to maximize its correct usage.\n\nIn this capacity, the candidate is an expert in implementing large scale enterprise applications, utilizing web-based technologies and applying enterprise system integration and security architectures (including hands-on implementing where required). Ideally, the candidate has a Salesforce.com experience and certification is advantageous. The candidate must also be able to lead technical requirements gathering sessions and articulate complex technical solutions to multiple audiences as well as write product requirements and technical architecture documents.\n\n## Required Qualifications\n### Educational Requirements\n* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related Field or equivalent combination of education and experience\n\n### Required Experience\n* Six to eight years of job related experience\n\n## Preferred Qualifications\n* 8+ years of experience implementing and integrating enterprise systems, preferably CRM or ERP with increasing complexity and responsibility.\n* Minimum 7+ years of development experience on the Salesforce platform including as a Technical leader in at least 2 Enterprise Salesforce implementations with over 300 users and multiple integration flows and data migrations\n* Strong expertise with the Salesforce platform including in two of the following modules: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Community Cloud, App Cloud\n* In-depth understanding of the capabilities and constraints of the Salesforce platform including scalability and large data volumes considerations. Understanding of best practices and design trade-offs, with the ability to communicate design choices\n\n### Preferred Educational Qualifications\n* Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, MIS or equivalent\n\n### Preferred Certifications:\n* At least 3 Salesforce certifications including 1 Designer level one\n* Salesforce Platform Developer I and II highly encouraged\n* Salesforce System and Application architect highly encouraged\n\n### Preferred Skills:\n* Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies (Agile, SCRUM, other)\n* Strong technical foundation:\n * Advanced structured programming and patterns (APEX, Force.com, .Net, Java)\n * Relational database concepts and structures and data modeling techniques\n * Structured system analysis and design methods\n * Integration patterns and protocols\n * Web and cloud architecture paradigms\n * Authentication and identity management\n * Mobile solutions and considerations\n* Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and to integrate business processes across disparate systems.\n* Participation in each phase of full Salesforce.com lifecycle implementations. Experienced in defining systems strategy and requirements, designing and prototyping, planning, testing, and supporting training efforts\n* Experience in Environment and Release strategies with the Salesforce platform and its DevOps tooling and metadata structure\n* Experience in the Higher Education industry and with Salesforce Education Cloud products.\n* Knowledge of common Salesforce AppExchange products and experience with vendor analysis\n* Experience working across technical and business stakeholders and leading design sessions.\n* Extensive experience with large volume data extraction, transformation, and load tools and data migration.\n* Expertise in Single Sign-On, Master Data Management, Business Intelligence Technologies, Social Enterprise Technologies, Data Warehousing.\n* Detail-oriented and motivated individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies.\n* Confident leader and communicator\n* Intensity, curiosity, drive and the desire to succeed\n* Resourceful and creative problem-solving skills\n* Excellent analytical skills and the ability to develop processes and methodologies\n* Team player with strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills\n \n\nPlease mention the words **CANDY MIND SPAWN** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $82,000 — $111,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🦷 Dental insurance\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited States