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Uken Games in downtown Toronto

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. In particular, we have positions available for:

Backend Developers

Help us scale our backend to enable a million concurrent players by creating the infrastructure and services (SOA) that underly all of our games. Primary tech is Rails and MySQL, but you'll be working with many more such as Docker, Redis, NSQ, websockets, Hadoop, Spark and InfluxDB.

Software Developers

Join one of our game teams to build something that millions of people will play and love. Primary tech is either Javascript (HTML5) or Unity.

About Uken

We are one of the largest independent game studios in Canada, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across mobile and Facebook.

More info including full job postings at http://uken.com


Uken Games - Toronto

Hiring Backend Engineers

Uken is looking for talented engineers to help us scale our games to support millions of concurrent players. We are a 70 person game studio in downtown Toronto.

Our stack includes: AWS, Rails, Redis, ReactJS, Angular, Percona, NSQ, Docker, InfluxDB.

You should be passionate about building rock solid services (SOA) and infrastructure, and optimizing for performance and stability. You will also be part of our on-call rotation.

If this sounds like you, please email me: mark at uken.com.


Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. We are a profitable startup experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iOS, Android, and Facebook.

Currently, we are looking for:

- software developers to join one of our Unity game teams

- a full stack engineer intern (paid) to help us build and optimize the infrastructure that supports all of our games using technology like Rails, MySQL, AWS and Docker

Full job descriptions are at http://uken.com/#jobs


Uken Games in downtown Toronto - http://www.uken.com

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. We are a profitable startup experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iOS, Android, and Facebook.

Currently, we are looking for: - software developers to join one of our Unity game teams - a full stack engineer intern (paid) to help us build and optimize the infrastructure that supports all of our games using technology like Rails, MySQL, AWS and Docker

Full job descriptions are at http://uken.com/#jobs


Uken Games in downtown Toronto - http://www.uken.com

Uken is always looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. We are a profitable startup experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iOS, Android, and Facebook.

In particular, we are looking for a front-end web developer with a passion for pixel perfect user experiences. Uken is at the forefront of HTML5 development and is creating highly performant browsed based games. AngularJS experience is a plus but not required.

If you are interested, please email me directly, mark at uken.com


Uken Games in downtown Toronto - http://www.uken.com

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. We are a profitable startup experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iOS, Android, and Facebook.

In particular, we are looking for a front-end web developer with a passion for pixel perfect user experiences. Uken is at the forefront of HTML5 development and is creating highly performant browsed based games. AngularJS experience is a plus but not required.

More info and full job description on our website


Uken Games in downtown Toronto - http://www.uken.com

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. We are a profitable startup experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iOS, Android, and Facebook.

In particular, we are looking for a front-end web developer with a passion for pixel perfect user experiences. Uken is at the forefront of HTML5 development and is creating highly performant browsed based games. AngularJS experience is a plus but not required.

More info and full job description on our website.


Uken Games in downtown Toronto

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. In particular, we are actively hiring for:

1) Summer Developer Interns (4 month paid position) Come build cutting edge games in HTML5 or Unity, or help us tackle backend challenges like scaling and working with big data.

2) HTML5/CSS3 Developers Are you a CSS wizard? Do you love making games? Help us build the best HTML5 games on the market!

We are a profitable startup experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iOS, Android and Facebook.

For full job descriptions and to apply, visit our us at http://uken.com


Looks like a great place to work, but why is the Software Developer Intern position asking for my transcripts, especially since none of the other positions are asked for it?

Personally, it stopped me from applying.


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Uken Games in downtown Toronto

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. Hundreds of thousands of players a day enjoy our games every day across iOS, Android, and Facebook.

Help us tackle challenges like: - building performant cross-platform games - leading the way in HTML5 games using AngularJS - scaling to millions of concurrent players for a MMORPG - analyzing terabytes of data to make better experiences for our players

More info at http://uken.com


Toronto - Uken Games Software Engineer (full time)

Uken is looking for talented software engineers to become members of our core development team.

You'd be working on meaningful things like:

- creating performant, cross-platform games;

- building game features that are deployed weekly to our millions of players;

- writing beautiful, maintainable code with extensive test coverage.

Your background should include:

- proven software engineering skills;

- excellent understanding of web architecture;

- the ability to communicate clearly;

- an appetite to learn, grow, and take on increasingly more responsibility;

- a strong desire to build something that people really want.

It'd be a big plus if you have:

- experience developing games;

- experience building applications for mobile platforms;

- contributed to an open source project (include your github profile);

- experience with the technologies we use: ruby on rails, objective-c, javascript, nginx, mysql, linux.

We believe in a fun & meaningful work environment:

- you'll be equipped with a MacBook Pro/Air, 27" monitors, iOS/Android device;

- stock options and competitive salaries;

- full health, dental, vision coverage;

- snacked-filled kitchen and booster juice breaks;

- catered breakfast, lunch, and dinner;

- convenient location downtown Toronto

About Us

Uken is one of the only true cross platform gaming companies around. We build fun social and mobile games that make people stare, smile, jump, and feel awesome inside. We have a quirky nerdy culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, quality ideas, and a data driven mindset. We believe in moving quickly and improving constantly and that mantra is reflected in the weekly updates we make to our games and internal technologies. We have an appetite for pushing technical boundaries and we’ve done exactly that with HTML5. We work on products that are used by millions of people everywhere and we’re just getting started.


Would you be interested in me and my skills? http://www.davesapien.com/DaveSapien/2013DaveSapien.html


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