Principal Software Engineer

3 Months ago • 12 Years + • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Volley seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead technical efforts, scaling technology and building next-generation platforms. Responsibilities include informing tech strategy, supporting team growth, implementing best practices for observability and stability, designing cross-platform game engine features, driving build vs. buy decisions, and executing roadmaps. The role involves collaborating with leadership, mentoring engineers, and building AI-powered software for voice-controlled games across various platforms (TV, mobile, etc.). The ideal candidate will have experience scaling software platforms, building consumer-facing apps, integrating emerging technologies, and leading large engineering teams.
Must have:
  • 12+ years software engineering experience
  • Expertise in building end-user experiences and scalable architecture
  • Experience influencing technical and business leadership
  • Experience improving operational excellence and software quality
  • Experience mentoring and developing engineers
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with game development
  • Experience with smart TV platforms (Roku, Fire TV, etc.)

Job Details

Role Summary: 

Volley's mission is to bring joy to our customers through AI and voice powered games. We believe that AI/LLMs and voice control can create new types of immersive gaming experiences and will become a primary way people access entertainment in bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms, and cars. Our portfolio of games includes well known titles including Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Song Quiz and many others on smart TVs, Mobile and Alexa devices.

We’re seeking a Principal Engineer to help lead our technical efforts as we scale our technology and build out our next generation of platforms and services. This role is a unique opportunity to build AI powered software, drive a culture of technical excellence, partner with engineering and business leadership to solve deeply challenging problems, and mentor others across our talented engineering team of 50+ (and growing). Some of our current challenges include building a scalable best-in-class voice recognition and gaming engine for our current and future titles, harnessing LLMs to drive immersive experiences that are both creative and goal-oriented, and launching complex/3D games across the existing breadth of living room device hardware (including streaming).

We’re a small and diverse team that delivers outsized impact through smart technical investments. We’re looking for someone who is curious, pragmatic, and also a think-big creative problem solver. Reporting to our VP Engineering, you will have company-level impact and visibility across our organization. You will collaborate with executive leadership to understand and influence business goals, drive technical decision-making, and set//implement a standard of excellence for the broader engineering organization.

What you’ll do at Volley

  • Work with company leadership and our product teams to inform a tech strategy that aligns with our overall business strategy
  • Support the organizational growth and development of the team through process improvements and mentorship
  • Dive into our tech stack and use learnings to establish and implement best practices for observability and stability
  • Design and build cross-platform game engine features, tools, and SDKs for core functionality (rendering, voice recognition, etc.), enabling our team to deliver delightful voice-controlled game experiences
  • Help drive build vs. buy decisions to enable our teams to focus on delivering the right strategic objectives
  • Develop and execute on quarterly and annual roadmaps while making effective tradeoffs that weigh business priorities, user experience requirements, and investments in foundational technology

Stuff you may have done before

  • Built and/or scaled 1 to N software platforms and/or engineering organizations
  • Built consumer-facing TV, mobile and/or web apps at scale (games are nice to have but not required)
  • Integrated audio/video streaming, voice, AI/LLMs and other emerging technologies into production software systems
  • Been the technical lead for a group of 50+ engineers
  • Developed applications on smart TV platforms (e.g. Roku, Fire TV, Google TV, Apple TV)

Must-haves

  • 12+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Demonstrated expertise building end-user experiences and scalable architecture
  • Examples of successfully influencing technical and business leadership for investments that accelerated product development
  • Experience driving improvements in operational excellence and software quality (including observability, reliability, code quality, automated testing) across multiple teams of engineers
  • Experience mentoring and developing others through the Staff Engineer level
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Our Stack

  • Typescript & Node.js

  • React & React Native (Fire TV)

  • Brighterscript (Roku)

  • DynamoDB,
  • PostgreSQL, Redis

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About The Company

Volley is the leading creator of voice AI games for smart speakers, connected TVs and mobile platforms. Using conversational AI, Volley reinvented the traditional game night, making games that can be played using only your voice. Some of our top products include: Song Quiz, Jeopardy!, Question of the Day, The Price is Right and Wheel of Fortune.

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