Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

Postscript is a fully remote team of 28 looking for help in solving complex problems like real-time streaming data (1000's of events per second) on the back end and beautiful, simple ways of interacting with that data on the front end.

We help ecommerce companies stay in touch with their customers (marketing, customer service, order management, and other notifications via text messaging).

We're scrappy hackers searching for similarly hungry individuals. We love LEARNING & BUILDING and we want every one of our engineers to leave us ready to start their own company.

Tech stack: Serverless Python / Flask - React - AWS

https://grnh.se/de0ca6d62us

Wikiloc is a place to discover and share the best outdoor trails for hiking, cycling and 70+ other activities. With over 6 million users from 190 countries, Wikiloc is one of the most vibrant outdoor communities of the world, and our users have collectively shared over 17 million outdoor trails and 30 million photos.

We are hiring:

* 1 Android engineer

* 1 iOS engineer

to reinforce our mobile app engineering team and develop new exciting features for our community.

You will join a small team of friendly, motivated and hard-working people, and build products to help people have better experiences doing outdoor activities and to inspire and support the preservation of nature. We have an ambitious vision with lots of cool stuff to do and you will work on all product-level decisions. Your work will reach millions of people worldwide in a short time.

Our Jobs page has more detailed information and instructions on how to apply: https://www.wikiloc.com/jobs

Senior Game Systems Designer, Role-playing game

We love role-playing games, and we’re passionate about telling collaborative stories with our players. Our three founders have a combined ~60 years experience in video games, primarily RPGs.

We have received funding for our first game, a premium PC and console title, and are seeking an experienced game systems designer to own one or more major systems. You would be involved from the very beginning.

We are remote-only and have a globally distributed team. This is a long-term (multiple years) contract position; benefits (e.g., health insurance, 401(k), etc.) are not available at this time. Compensation is $60+K

Job Duties / Responsibilities:

- Completely own several gameplay systems, from design documentation to implementation, balance, and polish

- Work closely with the Lead System Designer and Game Director to ensure that the system designs are aligned with the overall game vision

- Coordinate with Engineers, Content Designers and other disciplines to develop the underlying systems infrastructure and data structure for content implementation

- Work with Producers to ensure that tasks are completed on time while still hitting a high quality bar

- Collaborate with Department Leads and Producers to ensure that designs are within the implementation scope as designated by our milestones

- Be prepared to take on additional game development duties including play testing, bug fixing, and content implementation as needed (We will all be wearing these hats from time to time)

Qualifications:

- 5+ years in a Systems Designer role, preferably with at least one game shipped as a Systems Designer

- Knowledge and experience working in a 3D Game Development environment such as Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, Internal Engine, etc. Unity experience is preferred

- Strong Written & Verbal Communication Skills (in English) are a must

- Real-time combat gameplay experience is a plus

- Scripting and programming experience preferred

- Ability to work with minimal supervision, owning your work while also coordinating with team members

- Ability to remain focused and productive when working remotely

- Passion for RPGs, RPG-Hybrids and narrative-heavy games is a huge plus

Please send inquiries to hr at digimancygames.com