Senior Software Engineer, Web Applications


As a senior engineer in charge of web applications and tools, you'll be part of an extremely motivated and experienced group of people.


  • Work as part of Valve's core development team, adding web applications and components to our best-of-breed computer games and pioneering e-commerce platform.
  • Regularly ship a variety of products from small internal tools to large-scale web applications used by millions of people per month.
  • Directly and meaningfully impact the experience of those players & customers.
  • Develop an understanding of Valve's player community and contribute creative web-focused design solutions to improve the experience of using Valve's products
  • Improve internal visibility of various game-related and steam-related data
  • Follow-through from project inception through design to detailed completion
  • Iterate on solutions based on internal and external (customer) feedback
  • Develop end-to-end data management solutions including database schema, database back-up & management, and performance tuning.
  • Rapidly prototype web user interfaces
  • Participate in design process, gathering requirements with other engineers and designers
  • Create measurable success
  • Create open and re-usable web application components
  • Be self-directed and be able to prioritize your own workload

  • BS/BA degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 3+ years professional experience in software development

Experience with the following languages and tools is a plus:
  • PHP
  • C++/C
  • Java
  • Python
  • XML
  • MS SQL / Oracle / MySQL
  • Javascript
  • AJAX or similar

To apply, please email your resume, URL, and/or work samples.

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