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Grey Area is a fast growing company building a location aware multiplayer world for mobile. The game is built on real world locations and includes both, real time combat and asynchronous game play.

We are living  exciting times as we are building something truly new that will reshape the mobile gaming landscape. We are looking for passionate individuals to join our team in our quest. Grey Area is located in downtown Helsinki, Finland and offers competitive salaries and employee stock options to the first key employees. Come join us!

Grey Area is looking for passionate individuals in the following areas:

You are an experienced web developer ready to truly push the boundaries in web gaming. Our vision is to build awesome web experience on top of the unique Shadow Cities game world. We hope you will get excited sharing that vision.

You want to define what a web gaming experience should be. You will have lot say in the product development, and work together with designers and developers to build engaging games and social features on the web for the growing global community of players.

Key Responsibilities

- Co-develop and design Shadow Cities game and concept for the web.
- Use bleeding edge technologies to create the best user experience.
- Develop for platforms such as Facebook.
- Collect and act on metrics on usage and engagement.

Requirements

- Interest in games and gaming
- Solid working experience in building and shipping web applications, services or games.
- Clear understanding about the modern web techniques and interfaces.
- Constant hunger for learning new things and strong experience of HTML5, CSS, jQuery and Python/Ruby.
- Good communication skills.
- A cool person to work with!

For more information and to apply, write to info @ greyarealabs.com.

Mobile Game Developers

As a Game Developer for Shadow Cities you will be taking part in one of the most interesting projects the iPhone has ever seen!

You will be part of a fast-paced team driving ongoing product iteration and working in the highly competitive space of mobile games. The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fluid start-up environment and will bring an energetic, fun and creative approach to her/his work.

This job will be based in our headquarters in the downtown Helsinki, Finland. We offer a competitive compensation package including equity options for all the first key employees.

Key Responsibilities

- Co-develop and design the bleeding edge Shadow Cities iPhone client.
- Come up with new kick-ass features for the game together with the team.
- Program tools and utilities to support work on projects.
- Produce documentation for other programmers to use.

Requirements

- Experienced Game Programmer.
- Experience in OpenGL a big plus.
- Able to identify and solve problems creatively without guidance.
- Able to work independently.
- Graphical talent not required, but a big plus.
- A good eye for a great mobile UI design also plus.
- And most important of all, you are a cool person to work with and ready to be part of a world class team.

For more information and to apply, write to info @ greyarealabs.com.

Server Engineers

Building the game world server architecture is a challenging task. We use Erlang as our main tool to implement an actor based and highly scalable server that is able handle our concurrent workload. We use MongoDB as our datastore and Python for the web stuff.

You will be part of a fast-paced team driving ongoing product iteration and working in the highly competitive space of mobile games. The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fluid start-up environment and will bring an energetic, fun and creative approach to their work.

The applicants can be located anywhere in the world. We offer a competitive compensation package including equity options for all the first key employees.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and develop our Location Aware MMORPG Server.
- Come up with great new game features together with the team.
- Carve your own role in the team concentrating on web development, Erlang hacking, server scaling or one of the many cool things we’re working on.
- Make other devs cry by writing clever test cases that keep exposing bugs in everyone’s code.

Requirements

- Experience in designing and implementing server side applications.
- Ability to dive in and learn new things independently.
- A BSc in Computer Science or Software Engineering or similar experience gained from work.
- Expertise in Linux operating system.
- Skill and patience for testing and finding bugs.
- And most important of all, you are a cool person to work with and ready to be part of a dynamic team.

For more information and to apply, write to info @ greyarealabs.com.

Operations Engineer

Now here’s a fun task.

You get to be the lead operations engineer tasked to design, implement and monitor the various server environments that form our Location Aware MMORPG server clusters. As you will be one of the first key employees, you will have big influence in what our future server deployments look like. We run our stuff on Amazon Web Services and our tech stack is based on Linux, Erlang and MongoDB. The rest is pretty much up to you.

You will be part of a fast-paced team driving ongoing product iteration and working in the highly competitive space of mobile games. The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fluid start-up environment and will bring an energetic, fun and creative approach to their work. A person in this position would provide excellent support for our customers and work with our other engineers to build our various deployment systems from development to production. We expect you to be customer focused with extreme interest in automating away all the boring manual tasks.

The applicants can be located anywhere in the world. We offer a competitive compensation package including equity options for all the first key employees.

Key Responsibilities

- Create/use existing tools to automate daily tasks across different server clusters.
- Be a technical leader taking charge of our server environments and product deployments.
- Troubleshoot and resolve software, hardware and network related issues.
- Monitor growth and provide solutions before our servers melt down.

Requirements

- A BSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar experience gained from work.
- Years of experience building and managing multimachine server environments.
- Working programming experience from automation related tasks. Knowledge in Erlang is a plus.
- Experience in various AWS tools (EC2, S3 etc)
- Experience in MongoDB is a plus.
- And most important of all, you are a nice person to work with and ready to be part of a dynamic team

For more information and to apply write to info @ greyarealabs.com.

Talk soon!

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