Software Development Engineer - Arena Content Engineering

At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre-defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!

The Magic: The Gathering Arena team is looking for a Software Engineer to provide technical expertise for our Content Engineering team. As a live game we ship new updates almost every week, and as part of our squad you will help build the systems that ship new cards, events, and more. In close collaboration with designers, artists, and other specialists, you’ll be crafting and supporting Magic experiences for our players.

What You'll Do:

• Design and implement solutions for Magic: The Gathering Arena in alignment with architectural designs and design needs.
• Work with your team to understand, develop, debug, and refactor our asset bundling and deployment system.
• Improve our client builds by measuring performance and reducing build times, disk usage, and redundancy.
• Maintain existing client infrastructure such as third party integrations and logging.
• Provide estimates of time and resources required to complete project goals.
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What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience in professional software development.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• High level of proficiency crafting and writing clean maintainable code in C#.
• Professional experience with Unity or comparable game engines.
• The ability to partner with game designers to understand their problems and provide solutions.
• Strong coding, debugging and problem-solving skills and the ability to write readable, maintainable code.
• Ability to work within project constraints and timelines.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with cloud service architectures.
• Professional experience working with a large existing codebase.
• One or more successfully shipped games.

Compensation Range, Currency USD:

• Starting Pay Range: $121,285
• Pay Range End: $157,200

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation range for this role. The range listed is just one component of Wizards of the Coast’s total compensation package for employees. Employees may also be eligible for annual and long-term incentives. In addition, Wizards of the Coast provides a variety of benefits to employees. Here’s a look at what your benefits package may include: Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, Paid Vacation Time & Holidays, Generous 401(k) match, Paid Parental Leave, Volunteer Program, Employee Giving & Matching Gifts Programs, Tuition Reimbursement, Product Discounts, and more.

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The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.

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