San Francisco, CA · Full Time · Mid Level

We're looking for amazing software engineers to help build and maintain mission critical platform services that form the core of our ads, virtual currency, messaging, and social platforms. Work with our team on highly scalable, distributed, and redundant applications.The ideal candidate for this position has worked on large scale production environments with thousands of concurrent clients connected to the software they have built and deployed.

Mochi Media is the world's largest online game network, serving the needs of thousands of Flash game developers, and reaching over 150 million unique users each month with a library of over 15,000 games. The company's products and services provide game developers with tools to track game analytics, manage distribution, and monetize their games via micro-transactions and in-game ads. We also foster the most active Flash game developer community, and are committed to its continual growth through our involvement and industry leadership. The company is headquartered in downtown San Francisco and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shanda Games Limited (NASDAQ: GAME).

We're a small team with a very high bar for the types of people we'll bring. Our platform is primarily Erlang and Python. Check out our services at mochimedia.com and mochigames.com.

Requirements:

• B.S. Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Strong experience with High-availability and scalable network services
• Strong background in developing on Linux or Unix-like platforms for mission critical production deployments
• Experience with large-scale deployments utilizing replications and/or clustering
• Experience with functional programming
• Experience with Erlang, Mnesia, RabbitMQ, and distributed key-value stores a plus

Generous health benefits package, 401(k), 2 free lunches a week. See mochimedia.com/jobs for more!

San Francisco, CA · Full Time · Experienced

Mochi Media, Inc. is looking for a Senior UI Designer to work on our gaming properties used by millions of players and developers from around the world. You'll lead the design team in creating world class user experiences, maintaining our high standard for design and usability. We're looking for a rockstar who is multi-disciplined between UX, design, and client-side development with a passion for leading and mentoring others.

Mochi Media is the world's largest online game network, serving the needs of thousands of Flash game developers, and reaching over 150 million game players each month. The company's products provide game developers with tools to track game analytics, manage distribution, and monetize their games. We also foster the most active Flash game developer community, and are committed to its continual growth through our involvement and industry leadership. The company is headquartered in downtown San Francisco and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shanda Games Limited (NASDAQ: GAME).

Team Lead Responsibilities:

• Work with PMs in defining projects, wireframing and designing the user experience
• Review designs and code for the design team
• Assign and track your team's projects

Design Requirements and Skills:

• 5+ years of UI design and development experience required.
• Solid XHTML/CSS coding skills.
• Execute complete design process from wireframes to final implementation.
• Proven knowledge of Javascript and JQuery - We're looking for some innovative UI here.
• Extensive portfolio of online applications showing a good sense of usability combined with good layout and visual design.
• Comfortable working in Django templates or a similar template language.

VP of Product Management, Ryan Nichols

Generous health benefits package, 401(k), 2 free lunches a week. See mochimedia.com/jobs for more!

San Francisco, CA · Full Time · Experienced

We're looking for a senior web developer to build out applications in Python to support our network of Flash game developers and online game consumers. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience building applications for large web brands, loves to iterate designs, gets agile development, and is unafraid of diving into any area the problem leads him/her to. You have strong drive, ramp up on projects quickly, and don't require much mentoring. You should have opinions on programming languages, frameworks and styles, yet be versatile enough to use any of them.

YouÕll work in a small team developing and refining the mochimedia platform. YouÕll be a key player in helping architect and implement new web services and features while helping develop techniques to improve efficiency, functionality and scalability. YouÕll have the ability to quickly jump in and make an immediate difference to our web products!

Mochi Media is the world's largest online game network, serving the needs of thousands of Flash game developers, and reaching over 150 million unique users each month with a library of over 15,000 games. The company's products and services provide game developers with tools to track game analytics, manage distribution, and monetize their games via micro-transactions and in-game ads. We also foster the most active Flash game developer community and are committed to its continual growth through our involvement and industry leadership. The company is headquartered in downtown San Francisco and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shanda Games Limited (NASDAQ: GAME).

We're a small team with a very high bar for the types of people we'll bring in. Our web frameworks are based on Pylons/Genshi and Django and PostgreSQL.

Requirements:

• Consumer web application development experience
• Experience with high traffic consumer destination sites
• Solid database skills (we use PostgreSQL). NoSQL experience a plus
• Domain expertise with JavaScript, AJAX, CSS,DHTML, web security, web scalability techniques, and web usage analytics
• Strong Python and Django or Pylons experience
• Experience with continuous integration infrastructure and test-driven development a plus
• Excellent communication and personal skills: ability to interact and work well with members of other functional groups in a small project team with a strong sense of project ownership
• B.S. Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Generous health benefits package, 401(k), 2 free lunches a week. See mochimedia.com/jobs for more!

San Francisco, CA · Full Time · Mid Level

Mochi Media is looking to hire a Systems Administrator to join our operations team. Our operations team runs at a high level of efficiency with a mandate on providing a safe, predictable environment. This team is responsible for infrastructure which serves more than 1 billion ad impressions per month. This is a great opportunity to develop your career skills as we use best of breed technologies to scale our services, including puppet, OpenNMS, LDAP,FreeRADIUS, nginx, and Kickstart. Some of the hardware you'll be exposed to includes your standard x86-based Dell and HP servers, Arista and Cisco switches, Juniper routers, and A10 load balancers.

In this technical role, you will be responsible to support both our CentOS production and development servers. In addition, you will assist in supporting Mochi's day to day IT needs. You will also be responsible for basic networking equipment configuration changes. This job requires participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation duty.

Job Requirements:

• Previous Experience working with Linux as a sysadmin
• Working knowledge of Linux kernel
• Working knowledge of networking principles (switching vs. routing)
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals
• Working knowledge of one scripting language (shell, python, or ruby)
• Ability to lift 70 lbs with a partner
• Paying attention to detail
• Thinking of security first
• Taking pride in the quality of your work
• Working knowledge of x86-based server hardware, including basic maintenance tasks such as: replacing hard drives, installation and configuration of RAID devices, PSUs, memory, cpus, etc.
• Experience working with software revision systems such as svn, git, etc.

Desired Skills:

• Prior experience with Django, nginx, Pylons, Erlang, PostgreSQL, or Vertica
• Prior experience with production operations
• Good sense of humor