Opportunity

The Full Stack Developer is responsible for interpreting client project requirements from the design document and creating a full architecture document including both front ends, back end, and database schema, across multiple frameworks and platforms. You will also be responsible for some or all of the implementation of the architecture during the production portion of the project, including architecture adjustments based on requirements changes, and providing assistance in team oversight and code review.

You must have experience in all aspects of a full-stack web application environment, especially server-side (Laravel) and client-side frameworks (Nuxt.js, Vue.js). Experience with MySQL/Postgres/Mongo and Node.js is valued, as is experience translating client requirements into solid, scalable technical architectures.

This is a full-time position (40 hours per week) lasting for the duration of the production cycle. You will be expected to be available to attend daily stand-ups, coordinate with a distributed multidisciplinary team, and complete all tasks on time and to specification. This is a remote work contract, but the worker must have at least 4 hours overlap with the Studio time 9 am to 5 pm PST.

Salary: 15 - 30 USD/hour depending on experience.
This position is intended for individuals located in Latin America.

About Robot Sea Monster

Robot Sea Monster is a digital production studio with an extensive background in designing and developing mobile and web games, ar/vr, web3 blockchain, and commercial applications. Founded in 2012, the studio has successfully shipped over 40 products, serving major brands such as Blue Shield and Pearson, as well as innovators like LO3 Energy and Occipital. Our work has been profiled in major media outlets, such as The New York Times, CNBC, and ted. We are looking to build our team with creative people who want to make games and apps that engage, delight, and educate users.

Role overview

- Translate client requirements to full technical architectures, and implement your designs.
- Clear English communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Integrate via APIs with backend and third-party services.
- Adapt to fill in any required role on your production team, be it front end or back end, in order to ensure project success. Must have curiosity and a drive to expand capabilities.
- Provide assistance to other developers on the team through code review, QA, and rubber ducking.
- Create, Write, Design, Optimize, Maintain, Utilize, Contribute, Extend, Troubleshoot, Support, Assess, Aid, Evaluate, Document, etc.
- Attend team meetings, including project kick-offs, stand-ups, and additional meetings as required.
- Utilize and contribute to a company-wide code library.

Qualifications and skills

- backend (compulsory): Laravel.
- Frontend (compulsory): Nuxt.js / Vue.js.
- Fluent in frameworks covering the full web stack.
- Extensive experience in web and web application development.
- Background in front-end web UI development is a plus.
- Strong ability to quickly implement clean and readable code from provided specifications, with communication skills to resolve any ambiguity.
- Write clean, efficient, well-documented code.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate issues and report project design and status to a diverse non-technical audience.
- Must be detail-oriented, quality-driven, straightforward, self-motivated, and proactive.
- Able to work independently and creatively, and track multiple deadlines to success.
- Able to accept constructive feedback on your work.
- Proven history of working in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

Category: IT & Programming
Subcategory: Web development
What is the scope of the project?: Create a new custom site
Is this a project or a position?: Project
I currently have: Not applicable
Required availability: Full time
API Integrations: Other (Other APIs)
Roles needed: Other
Other roles needed: Full Stack Developer

Opportunity

The Full Stack Architectural Lead is the key engineering member of one or more project teams within Robot Sea Monster Games, reporting directly to the Product Owner. You will be responsible for the creation and implementation of high-quality, scalable technical backend architectures for games and applications, with a strong emphasis on reusability and abstraction, design patterns and principles, and planning for flexibility and future change, all within the constraints of the project scope and budget.

You will be responsible for guiding a team of engineers on your projects, ensuring that their code aligns with your architecture, meets necessary standards, and delivers the necessary functionality. You will look to identify poor or fragile code and step in to help its author learn how to improve it before it's merged. And you will work with your Product Owner and the RSMG core team to help strengthen our development teams and standards studio wide.

You are passionate about your programmer ideals and experienced enough to filter them through the pragmatic needs of the project. You work hard to find ways to minimize unnecessary work and keep your code DRY. You are able to recognize fragile or substandard code and view it as an opportunity to share some new knowledge with that team member. When it comes to code, you get excited about finding new ways to do more with less, and love sharing that knowledge with others.

Salary: 35 – 50 USD/hour depending on experience.
This position is intended for individuals located in Latin America.

Responsibilities

- Create and Document Technical Architecture based on design documentation and understanding of project objectives.
- Utilize abstractions to create reusable elements that operate within the larger whole to support dynamic gameplay experiences.
- Create schemas for databases, both relational and non-relational, and know when to use which.
- Define APIs for front-end games and applications, and understand external APIs as needed to design and integrate functionality for your projects.
- Guide and oversee a team of engineers implementing projects against your architecture, ensuring code quality is maintained and milestones are met.
- Assist the Product Owner and Delivery Manager in defining well-documented milestones and tasks for the team implementing your architecture.
- Help configure and maintain deployed environments for the project at various lifecycle stages as needed.

Required Skills

- 5+ years of experience as an individual contributor with Rust or Solana protocol experience.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Go, Rust, and Node/Typescript.
- Experience building and deploying scalable, secure, and performant systems to production
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Attention to detail.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Great time management and deadline-driven.

Work Environment

Robot Sea Monster is a fully remote company with team members across the globe. We expect you to provide the appropriate computer, peripherals, and software needed for this position, in addition to the high-speed internet, mic, and camera required for video conferencing and voice calls. Robot Sea Monster will provide access to all team systems and any proprietary software or hardware required for a project.

You will need to be available via Google Meet, Slack, and email during designated work hours. Additional hours may be required when we need to meet project deadlines and for periodic client meetings. Hours will fluctuate based on the number of projects, project scale, and project timelines.

Category: IT & Programming
Subcategory: Web development
Is this a project or a position?: Project
I currently have: Not applicable
Required availability: Full time
API Integrations: Other (Other APIs)
Roles needed: Developer

Robot Sea Monster is a digital production studio with an extensive background in designing and developing mobile and web games, ar/vr, web3 blockchain, and commercial applications. Founded in 2012, the studio has successfully shipped over 40 products, serving major brands such as Blue Shield and Pearson, as well as innovators like LO3 Energy and Occipital. Our work has been profiled in major media outlets, such as The New York Times, cnbc, and ted. We are looking to build our team with creative people who want to make games and apps that engage, delight, and educate users.


Opportunity

The Production Coordinator is expected to work closely with the Product Manager to keep software development projects well organized and on target. The Production Coordinator must work closely with project managers to create comprehensive action plans concerning resources, budgets, and timeframes for projects.

The Production Coordinator must be extremely detail oriented. You will help in tracking budgets, and production schedules, creating UI mockups, and design specifications that will help make the Creative Director’s and client’s visions into a reality. Experience in translating client requirements to technically appropriate specifications, and vice versa. High-level familiarity with Mobile Game and Web Application technology stacks is desired. Enough awareness of the technological landscape to research new-to-us technologies and determine if existing skill sets would be applicable.

Because we are a start-up, the Production Coordinator can be called to fill many roles and must be flexible while managing multiple projects and responsibilities.

The Production Coordinator is a full-time position, and we expect the workload to be 40 hours a week while the project’s production is active. You must be available to attend daily stand-ups, coordinate with a distributed multidisciplinary team, and complete all tasks on time and to specification. The position is a remote work contract, but the worker must have at least 4 hours overlap with the Studio time from 9 am to 5 pm PST.

Salary: 10 – 25 USD/hour depending on experience.
This position is intended for individuals located in Latin America.


Role Overview

– Clear written and verbal communication in English; additional languages would be also a plus.
– Assist in building production bids, budgets, schedules, and proposals from templates.
– Assist in tracking project progress and updating the Monday platform.
– Help manage the team through the process of task costing, prioritization, and delegation.
– Manage the QA process. Help drive and lead bug finding and tracking.
– Prepare reports based on team velocity, point burndown, and budget burnup.
– Utilize and innovate systems to balance team efficiency with product quality.
– Manage the technical requirements.
– Maintain a high level of product quality and great user experience.
– Assist in creating wireframe mockups based on the Creative Director’s plans when needed.
– Assist in implementing, debugging, and maintaining the user interface.
– Assist in maintaining game/app design documents and user experience diagrams.
– Assist in creating content breakdowns from design documents.
– Exhibit strong communication skills to help remotely manage an international team of artists and programmers.
– Must have at least 4 hours overlap with the Studio time 9 am to 5 pm PST.


Ideal Candidate

– Experience in software development.
– Self-starter, able to stay on task.
– Meeting client needs and managing scopes of work, deliverables, and business realities.
– Cross-functional development teams, especially with Programmers and Artists.
– Working with geographically-dispersed teams.
– Knowledge of upcoming internet trends and themes.
– Experience with Agile Project management.
– Experience managing software development.
– Experience with video games.


Work Environment

Robot Sea Monster is a fully remote company with team members across the globe. We expect you to provide the appropriate computer, peripherals, and software needed for this position, in addition to the high-speed internet, mic, and camera required for video conferencing and voice calls. Robot Sea Monster will provide access to all team systems and any proprietary software or hardware required for a project.

You will need to be available via Google Meet, Slack, and email during designated work hours. Additional hours may be required when we need to meet project deadlines and for periodic client meetings. Hours will fluctuate based on the number of projects, project scale, and project timelines.

Category: IT & Programming
Subcategory: Web development
Is this a project or a position?: Project
I currently have: Not applicable
Required availability: Full time
API Integrations: Other (Other APIs)
Roles needed: Developer