Klang is a game studio exploring the future of humanity through various forms of media. We aim to present deep, meaningful subjects in a way that's captivating, easy-to-digest and entertaining for all ages.
At the heart of Klang is Seed, a large-scale, persistent virtual world that we believe will redefine the MMO landscape and have a positive impact on our species.
We aspire to bring people together through engaging media experiences and by building strong communities.
It's a super exciting project, but in order for us to achieve a goal like this we are going to need a lot of help! From people just like you.
You will be the leading engineer for our online products, allowing communication and interaction between community managers, game developers, and players.
You will develop and maintain those products' frontend and backend components, utilizing a modern infrastructure and architecture available in-house and best-in-class SaaS solutions.
You will work with a technology stack of (amongst others) GCP, Terraform, K8S, Docker, gRPC, Vercel, Next.js, and Typescript.
You will be part of an agile software development team focused on developing internal and user-facing online products and be responsible for their technical quality and rate of improvement.
You have several years of experience developing and operating server-side and client-side components of online products as a Web Engineer, Fullstack Engineer, or in a similar role.
You have experience working with the Typescript language and corresponding common frameworks (React, Next.js)
You have experience both in developing and integrating services utilising gRPC and REST APIs, backed by PostgreSQL databases
You have a good grasp of modern web stack technologies and architectures.
You can communicate and collaborate as a member of an agile development team and across teams, and partner with other departments like Analytics, Marketing, and Project Management to bring a product to users.
You have experience working with CMS systems such as Contentful
You have experience integrating 3rd party payment services such as Adyen or Stripe
You have experience working with analytics tools like Google Analytics
You have experience with standalone Electron app development
If you don’t feel that you quite meet all the requirements above, but the position still excites you and you think you would love to work for Klang, reach out! We still want to hear from you.
At Klang, we create products that inspire people to deepen their understanding of the emergent nature of society and collectively envision a better future.
At the heart of Klang is SEED an accessible, persistent world in which players share a history and shape a future. We provide an environment for a broad audience to belong and develop relationships in a society simulation inspired by life itself.
We explicitly encourage applications from applicants from groups underrepresented in games/tech spaces. We value all kinds of backgrounds and walks of life.
