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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016) on Friday July 01, 2016 @01:02PM (#12017828)
Uken Games, downtown Toronto, full time onsite

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 Unity or Javascript (HTML5).

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

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015) on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @05:21PM (#9306997)
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

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015) on Sunday March 01, 2015 @12:36PM (#9127987)
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.

People Manager

The best people make the best games. You will own the entire talent management function, including recruitment, retention, and growth.

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

Re:Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012) on Saturday September 01, 2012 @12:56PM (#4464289)
Toronto

Uken Games is looking for talented developers to help us build mobile games in JavaScript+Rails. We are also looking for web engineers / devops with a passion for performance and scaling.

We are a profitable startup (~40 employees) experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook.

More info at http://uken.com/jobs

Re:Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012) on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @03:00PM (#4324906)
Toronto

Uken Games is looking for talented developers to help us build mobile games in JavaScript+Rails. We are also looking for web engineers / devops with a passion for performance and scaling.

We are a profitable startup (~35 employees) experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook.

More info at http://uken.com/jobs

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012) on Thursday March 01, 2012 @10:03PM (#3655152)
Uken Games in downtown Toronto

We are a profitable startup (~30 employees) experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook.

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build mobile games in HTML5 and push what is possible in a browser. In addition to web developers and Javascript gurus, we are looking for backend engineers to help us with building out our infrastructure, scaling, and crunching big data. Technologies we use include Rails, Nginx, Chef, MySQL, Redis, and backbone.js.

More info at http://uken.com/jobs

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012) on Sunday January 01, 2012 @09:29PM (#3414537)
Uken Games in downtown Toronto

Uken is looking for talented developers and designers to help us build mobile games in HTML5 and push what is possible in a browser.

We are a profitable startup (~25 employees) experiencing massive growth, with over 100,000 players a day across iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook.

More info at http://uken.com/jobs

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011) on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @09:22AM (#3181842)
Uken Games in downtown Toronto

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build mobile games in HTML5 and push what is possible in a browser.

We are a profitable startup (~25 employees) experiencing massive growth, with over 100,000 players a day across iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook.

More info at http://uken.com/jobs

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011) on Thursday September 01, 2011 @10:18AM (#2950093)
Uken Games in downtown Toronto

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build mobile games in HTML5 and push what is possible in a browser.

We are a profitable startup (~20 employees) experiencing massive growth, with over 100,000 players a day across iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook.

More info at http://uken.com/jobs

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (July 2011) on Friday July 01, 2011 @01:36PM (#2719286)
Uken Games in downtown Toronto

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build mobile games in HTML5 and push what is possible in a browser.

We are a profitable startup (~17 employees) experiencing massive growth, with over 100,000 players a day across iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook.

More info at http://uken.com/jobs

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011) on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @01:44PM (#2608381)
Toronto, full time (no remote) Uken Games - http://www.uken.com/jobs

We are a profitable startup (~15 full times) that makes web based games in HTML5 for iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook. We are growing fast and need talented back-end web engineers to help us scale (Rails & MySQL). We are also looking for Javascript developers to help us push the edge of what browsers can do.

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011) on Friday April 01, 2011 @09:41AM (#2396131)
Toronto, full time (no remote)

Uken Games - http://www.uken.com/jobs

We are a startup (~10 full times) that makes web based games in HTML5 for iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook. We are growing fast and need talented back-end web engineers to help us scale (Rails & MySQL). We are also looking for Javascript developers to help us push the edge of what browsers can do.