Software Development Engineer Co-op

As a Software Development Engineer Co-op, you will be helping build our live mobile games, including but not limited to Single City, Kingdoms of Heckfire, and Party in my Dorm, as well as the tools and infrastructure needed to run these massively multiplayer online experiences.

You will work closely with artists and designers to help grow our games. You will implement scalable, reliable, and maintainable technologies for both client and server.

You will have a major impact on the end product, and will be involved in every aspect of its development. Millions of people will use what you create.

We are only considering students who will be enrolled in an accredited degree program in the winter of 2027.

What you will do

The game backends are built with a Django + MySQL server architecture, while the frontend clients are built using Unity or native iOS/Android, depending on the product. You will also:

• Build entire features from front-end client code to back-end server support.
• Become involved in every aspect of product development, from design to implementation to playtests to metrics analysis.
• Construct systems that let everyone at the company deploy to our distributed backend without worry.
• Create tools to automate and optimize processes across disciplines. These might be adding additional player management tools for our community team, data pipeline optimizations for our game designers, or even content pipelines for our art team.

Who we are looking for

• You are a tech generalist, a full stack engineer with the desire to work on both client and server side implementations of entire features.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms.
• You communicate your thoughts and ideas clearly in code and in writing.
• You have an interest in and play mobile gaming products.

Past co-ops have worked on...

• Guild management improvements like the ability to invite people, open clubs that players can join without approval, better club search, and other tools to keep our most active players engaged.
• Implemented a scalable group leaderboard event system full stack. The system guarantees consistency and availability while dozens of players try to contribute progress to their group frequently.
• Revamped data deploy tool to enable multiple game designers to work simultaneously.
• Setup metrics tracking and funnel analysis and experimented with different UI polishes to improve retention.
• Worked on upgrading our data pipeline: processing data and creating different data representations and visualizations to help ATA to make marketing and product decisions.
• Revamped the realm map overview to include real time positions of ongoing marches, key locations on the map and user bookmarked pins!
• Implemented the entire stack for our Second Builder subscription purchase, which included interfacing with both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, as well as client support.
• Optimized particle systems in-game to significantly reduce peak memory usage.
• Developed leaderboard-assigned classes for Shrines to grant players additional perks.