Second Dinner is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer, Remote - United States

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Engineer at Second Dinner, a remote-first game development studio. The role involves designing and implementing new in-game features and optimizing existing ones to make the game fun and popular worldwide. The company values diversity and offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement benefits, paid time off, remote work, flexible hours, life and disability insurance, bonuses and incentives, professional development opportunities, wellness programs, family and parental leave.

Requirements

• Highly empathetic towards and supportive of team members
• Approachable and excited to collaborate on design and tech
• An insatiable curiosity and a passion for learning and discovery
• Ability to implement gameplay and features from the ground up
• Experience with modern mobile game design and architecture paradigms
• Ability to articulate technical ideas effectively over many communication types (spoken, wiki, email, etc)
• Experience modeling game states and implementing rules in client-server architectures
• Passionate about playing and making great games
• Experience developing Unity applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating persistent data schemas, versioning, and data migration
• Experience crafting server-authoritative multiplayer systems with client prediction
• Willing to mentor other engineers and be invested in their growth
• Experience with Git, .NET, and AWS

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans with Second Dinner paying 100% of premiums for employees and 75% for dependents for many plans
• 401(k) contribution with no waiting period
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with no waiting period
• Home office improvement bonus
• Paid Vacation & Sick time
• Up to 10 BetterHelp sessions covered each benefits plan year
• Remote-first with core overlap hours between 10AM and 4PM PT
• Company Winter Holiday shutdown (Dec 25-Jan 1)
• Company Summer Holiday shutdown (week of July 4)
• Company Events - In-person Summer all-hands gathering, in-person holiday party, annual camping event, and virtual events throughout the year