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Nord Beaver is a young GameDev company founded in July 2020. We develop cross-platform games based on HTML5 technology from idea to implementation. We've created and developed more than 20 HTML5 games, and our goal is to help HTML5 game market to become a significant part of the gaming industry. 

Our team is growing dynamically and attracting talented professionals. Now we are looking for an experienced Chief Business Development Officer 

Responsibilities:

• To act as the individual contributor in our Marketing, Sales and Partnerships areas and seek new business opportunities by engaging our network and by contacting and developing relationships with potential clients;
• Form a development strategy for the company and manage its tactics together with the CEO;
• Contact potential clients through different channels and qualify leads from marketing campaigns;
• Build long-term trusting relationships with clients; 
• Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market;
• Build work with the company brand, improve the reputation and recognition of Nord Beaver;
• Report directly to our CEO on (weekly/monthly/quarterly) sales results.

To be successful in this role, you should have: 

• Proven 4 years+ work experience in Business Development, Sales positions or similar role in GameDev; 
• Hands-on experience with multiple sales techniques; 
• Track record of achieving sales quotas; 
• Experience with different platforms such as Poki, Azerion, Crazygames, etc. and other sources;
• A wide range of professional acquaintances; 
• Understanding of sales performance metrics; 
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills;
• Fluent English is a must, and knowledge of other languages is a huge plus 

We offer: 

• Remote work from any country (we love remote work, and know how to stay motivated);
• Relocation options: if you want to work offline, you can choose one of our offices to relocate;
• Flexible vacation (we give you 31 days PTO, only you decide when you have holiday);
• Various courses necessary for team development;
• Opportunity to gain unique experience in the gaming industry;
• Interesting projects that will not let you get bored;
• No strict hierarchy, no bureaucracy, and opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the growing business;
• Offline meetups.
  

The selection process at Nord Beaver includes:

• Recruiting screening 
• Test task 
• Technical interview
  

What you will do:

Our team is going to build the new core services to migrate from distributed monolith to microservices architecture.

• Find a proper way to solve architectural problems and fit product requirements;
• Create new services from the service template or from scratch;
• Write clean, high-quality, testable code;
• Define hardware requirements;
• Choose appropriate tools and software (db, cache, etc.);
• Support all implemented solutions;
• Provide documentation (for example, OpenAPI) for solutions.

Skills and qualifications:

• 4+ years of software development experience;
• 2+ years of experience of PHP;
• Knowledge about differences between databases (postgre/mysql), message brokers (kafka/rabbitmq), key-values (redis/memcached) and other primary software;
• Experience in building distributed solutions;
• Politeness and ability to express thoughts in text;
• Good team player that is enthusiastic about delivering results;
• Can work independently without detailed technical tasks/management;
• English level - intermediate + (spoken and written).

Will be a "+"

Experience in: Laravel, Docker, Docker-compose, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Kibana, Elasticsearch.

What we offer:

• Ambitious profitable project with adequate management;
• Employee benefits and insurance plan;
• Paid vacation, personal days, and sick days;
• Gym/fitness allowance;
• Education allowance to keep your skills and learning current;
• Career and professional growth.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare specifications and business analysis requirements
• Help design, document, and maintain system processes
• Construct workflow charts and diagrams based on existing and desired system capabilities
• Report on common sources of technical issues or questions and make recommendations to the product team
• Define reporting and alerting requirements
• Data analysis and BI
• Close work with various stakeholders to collect system requirements, analysis, validation, management, and prioritization
• Working with the Development team, operations team, and the Business to ensure all documents are fully understood to be converted into the desired code/systems/technology
• Produce and maintain software documentation including business processes, requirement specifications, and documentation
• Control the delivery and the quality of the created functionality till the moment it is on production. Conduct user acceptance testing
• Ability to measure and analyze basic business, product, and technical metrics
• Build basic dashboards, data analyses
• Work with the stakeholders to build efficient reports.

Requirements and skills:

• 3+ years of previous experience in Business/Systems Analysis
• Proven experience in eliciting requirements (BRD)
• Experience in design and development of software documentation (API specifications)
• Fundamentals of the theory of algorithms, database theory, systems theory and system analysis, the basics of information security
• Understanding of basic concepts of UI/UX
• Experience in iterative development mode, understanding scrum framework
• Basic SQL knowledge
• Experience in analyzing data to draw business-relevant conclusions
• Knowledge of BPMN, sequence diagrams, mind mapping techniques
• Extremely organized with strong time-management skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing skills (English)
• Experience in fintech as a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (English)
• Business trips will be required (Schengen visa /EU passport/EU residency)
• Attention to detail, strategic and analytical thinking

What You Will Do:

• Develop with PHP 7+ (Yii2), MySQL, Docker, AWS;
• Write clean, maintainable code, keeping performance and observability in mind;
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, build and ship high-quality features;
• Promote best practices to improve the quality of our code and processes;
• Share your knowledge and experience with other engineers.
  

What We Expect From You:

• 5+ years of PHP web application software engineering experience;
• Experience with one or more modern PHP frameworks (Yii, Laravel, Symfony);
• A strong business sense and ability to collaborate with leadership and non-technical stakeholders on highly visible projects;
• Expert knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, indexing, and searching technologies
• A passion for data-driven decision-making (metrics, experiments, prototypes, …);
• Strong knowledge and a passion for software best practices, design patterns, and testing;
• Passionate about agile practices and continuous improvement.

What do we offer?

• Remote work or hybrid/office if you are in Istanbul;
• Flexibility. We value awareness and involvement. You’ll be able to organize your working day personally. The start of the day is flexible. Results are what’s most important to us;
• Equity. Your role is vital for the business, and we want you to share our future success;
• An incredible young team, where you can always count on the support of like-minded individuals who are ready to discuss even the wildest ideas.

Key Responsibilities

• 3+ years of experience with Node.js building services using REST APIs;
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases;
• An end-to-end understanding of software life cycle;
• Experience designing and leading software projects;
• Degree in Computer Science or related technology field;
• Ability to listen, communicate, evaluate, problem solve, multi-task, and prioritize in a high-pressure, mission-critical, and rewarding team environment.
  

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience with NestJS/Express;
• Experience with queues, streams, and functions;
• Experience with distributed systems;
• Experience with AWS Cloud Services (EKS/RDS/SQS/etc);
• Experience with Laravel/Lumen Framework.
  

Benefits

• Flexible office policy - You can work from wherever you want or from our cozy office in Tashkent. You can even combine both - few days in the office and few days remote;
• 5/2 work week, 8 hours a day;
• Official employment in accordance with Uzbekistan's Labor Laws;
• You are expected to be available for communication between 18:00 to 23:00 Tashkent time (because you'll be working with the US team located in New York);
• Frequent team-building activities and internal hackathons;
• Health insurance;
• Group exercises;
• Reimbursement for sport.

More about vacancy:

Our ideal candidate is an active iOS user interested in wearable devices and trends in health. He (she) can not only find a crash, but also define usability issues.

We’d like to see:

• 1+ year of expertise.
• Strong attention to details and focus on quality.
• Create and maintain test cases and test documentation, bug reports and check lists.
• Work with developers to set their priorities.
• Be able to communicate in English.

Nice to have:

• Apple Watch series 6 / 7 / 8.
• both iOS and Android devices.

What we offer:

• competitive salary.
• investment in your professional development - we sponsor education, mentorship, and other forms of growth acceleration.
• fully remote team.
• low base start to setup high quality processes.