Chief PHP Architect

Description

Chief PHP Architect

About Telltale Games

Telltale is an award-winning independent developer/publisher pioneering landmark episodic content. Founded in 2004 by LucasArts veterans with decades of experience, Telltale is now an industry leader, establishing the model for episodic downloadable games and releasing more than 35 episodic games to date. Telltale's titles have won numerous awards including numerous "Adventure Game of the Year" accolades from publications such as IGN, PC Gamer, GameSpy, and Adventure Gamers, and has been recognized by mainstream outlets including USA Today, CNN, The New York Times and Variety.
Telltale is continuing to expand its lineup recently announcing new episodic game series based on Back to the Future and Jurassic Park. Telltale also continues to aggressively create cutting edge entertainment through its innovative Pilot program, which has recently produced Puzzle Agent (IGN’s Best iPhone Game of E3), and Poker Night @ The Inventory, a mash-up featuring characters from Team Fortress, Penny-Arcade and Homestarrunner.

Telltale currently develops and publishes digital episodic series such as Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures on PC, Mac, PlayStation®3, Wii™, Xbox 360™ and iOS devices.

Role:

Telltale Games is seeking a talented, ambitious individual to fill the role of Chief PHP Architect. You’ll lead a server focused team and own multiple projects for our global account and e-commerce web sites.

Responsibilities:

• Focus on server-side engineering and architecture while interfacing with front-end design teams to create Telltale Games' sites.
• Build web services and applications for the account management, commerce, game device connectivity and community elements of Telltale’s online games.
• Develop high performance, secure, and scalable web applications and API's that can support the demands of a AAA game launch.
• Work collaboratively on a small team and have a passion for writing clean code.
• Strong history of getting things done in a timely and practical manner with minimal supervision.