Heroic Labs

Social Infrastructure for Games; Makers of Nakama game server, Satori…

Developer Relations Engineer

$40K - $70K
Location
London, England, GB / Remote (US)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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Mo Firouz
Mo Firouz
COO

About the role

Hi there!

We're looking for a Developer Relations Engineer to join the growing team at Heroic Labs. Our cornerstone offerings—Nakama, Hiro, Satori, and Heroic Cloud—comprise the Heroic Game Stack, an integrated platform delivering unparalleled performance and flexibility.

We are simplifying the lives of game developers and providing an incredible technology that can be integrated into any games on any platform as easily as possible. Nakama is already powering many games, including multiple titles on the Top 50 of the app stores.

There is an ever-growing open-source community with many contributors, and third-party plugins and projects. Heroic Labs works with independent developers, mid-tier, AAA game studios and many publicly listed, Fortune 500 companies across the globe to power games that individually make over 90 billion requests per month into our infrastructure.

We lean towards candidates who have professional experience with open-core companies.

About The Role

We are looking for a Developer Relations Engineer to join the Heroic team. In this role, you will help us fulfill our mission to be the choice for studios building all online games.

You will be creating outstanding documentation, define and create our developer and customer advocacy program that will help identify and amplify the unique ways people are using Hiro, Nakama and Satori.

The person in this role will become deeply engaged in the community of developers and vendors and be a trusted and respected ambassador. In this role, you will have a heavy focus on building a community of Nakama users, creating/curating developer-oriented content, including video content, and building expertise/advocacy within our users so that they will organically speak about and recommend Heroic Game Stack to their peers.

Things You Might Do

  • Be one of the voices of Heroic Labs both in online forums and in-person events, engaging and helping developers understand and love our tools while also celebrating the impact of our open-source contributors.
  • Craft original content and derivative works using existing material from adjacent teams.
  • Create a framework for empowering studios to engage with our developer community through speaking engagements and/or content development.
  • Advocate for developers' needs internally within the company to improve our overall developer experience.
  • Define and own metrics to measure the success of our developer content and outreach efforts.
  • Lead the conversation around the latest technology advancements and best practices in the developer community.
  • Grow the developer relations team at Heroic.

About You

  • 3+ years leading a developer advocacy group or similar role.
  • Experience writing technical articles or blog posts.
  • A natural affinity to forge relationships with developers.
  • A collaborative spirit and an ability to problem-solve.
  • Video recording and editing experience.
  • Optional, but strongly recommended: Game development experience, and basic knowledge of JS, C#, Unity, Unreal.
  • Optional, Experience with Go, Lua and TypeScript languages.

About Heroic Labs

For the past 9 years, Heroic Labs has been on the forefront of providing cutting edge technology to the games and entertainment market. We do this because we love developers and we love games!

We always choose the right tool for the job. We believe that with the right tools, you can have a big impact with less hassle. We believe in small teams. Small teams are fast and nimble. Small teams mean less bureaucracy and less management and more getting things done.

The Whole Package

Location: Anywhere within +/- 3 or 4 hours of GMT, with a reliable Internet connection.

If you want to work remote, that's great. If you want to work near others, that's cool too. We have an office in London (UK), but our team members are in Vancouver, New York, Portugal, and Brazil!

Compensation:

  • Competitive salary (we don't use remote as an excuse to pay less).
  • Unlimited vacation policy. Plus we require you to take at least 2 weeks off each year (and observe local holidays).
  • At least yearly company all-hands and getaways.
  • Pick your own equipment. We recommend Macs, but we don't worry if you choose something else!
  • Work with a loving team that treats everyone as family.

How to apply

Send an email to us with your resume, and a cover letter highlighting why you'd like to join Heroic Labs.

After you apply, you are going to hear back from us, even if we don't seem like a good fit. In fact, throughout the process, we strive to make sure you never go more than seven days without hearing from us.

About Heroic Labs

Heroic Labs is an enterprise open-core software company that builds developer tools for the games and entertainment industry. Our flagship project is an open-source cloud-agnostic game server called Nakama.

We've added two supporting products called Hiro (a meta game framework) as well as Satori, a LiveOps system to help game studios deliver highly personalizable game experiences to their players.

Heroic Labs also provides managed infrastructure to run Nakama/Satori on behalf of game studios and media companies. There is also a proprietary version called Nakama Enterprise for large enterprises to deploy in their own datacenter, as well as custom infrastructure for private cloud deployments.

We work with different size companies ranging from small startups, mid-size game studios, public-listed games companies, and Fortune 500 companies. This means that Nakama (and suite of products) have been battle-tested at various scales and use cases.

Heroic Labs
Founded:2014
Team Size:21
Location:London, United Kingdom
Founders
Mo Firouz
Mo Firouz
COO
Andrei Mihu
Andrei Mihu
CTO
Chris Molozian
Chris Molozian
CEO