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Flash game UI developers needed

Job Opportunity posted 09/22/11 by Shannon.Mardis , tagged: Contract, Design, Development, flash, flex, full time, Full-time, North America, Open, part time, Part-time
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Job Title
Flash game UI developers needed

Company Name
HitPoint Studios

Company Address
59 North Street, Hatfield MA 01037
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Employment Status
Contract

Start Date
ASAP

Project Duration
initial contract with potential for salary

Employer Contact
Shannon Mardis

Contact Phone
4133136617

Contact Email
smardis@hitpoinstudios.com

Job Description

HitPoint is an award-winning game development company located in beautiful Western Massachusetts. Specializing in a wide range of cutting-edge game development genres and platforms including: social, mobile and download, HitPoint has ongoing development partnerships with many major publishers including Microsoft, BigFish Games, Glu Mobile and WildTangent and has developed major brand game campaigns for mass market brands including Coke, McDonalds, Axe Body Spray and many others.

HitPoint is actively developing its first original *secret* title and is in search of a talented UI engineer to join our development team and help bring our vision to market.

We are looking for an engineer to specialize in development of an ActionScript 3.0-based user interface.  We are particularly interested in candidates that are able to work on-site, in our offices in Hatfield, MA either part-time or full-time.

This is a contract position that may be upgraded to a full-time position after a 60-day trial period.

Education: Minimum, Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering.

Experience:
User interface development in Flash.
Team based software development experience.
Experience successfully developing and shipping a product
Game development/prototype experience.

Essential Skills:
High proficiency in Flash/FlashBuilder/Actionscript 3.0 development.
Web-Development skills including Javascript, HTML/HTML5

Nice to Have Skills:
Unity development experience or comparable 3d engine development experience.
C++, C#, Java or similar  modern, object oriented programming languages.
Proficiency with working with MySQL or other databases.
Familiarity working with Java-based web-services and tools: Tomcat, Hibernate,Spring, Maven, etc...

Attitude
-We’re looking for hard workers who are competent, creative and know how to have fun.

Please Provide:
an up-to-date resume
A portfolio of projects you have worked on/shipped (preferably games & UI)
Code Samples
Relevant References

We offer:
Full dental/health coverage
employee stock options
401k plus matching

Local Candidates
local preferred