Careers at Amuse Labs

We are a growing company and a leader in our space, with a passion for building world-class products. We are entering promising new markets like advertising, events and ed-tech. Looking for a challenge? Come join us! You’ll be working with the best in the business.

Careers at Amuse Labs are available with the following types of positions.

1. Full-time openings

Please see the listings on this page and fill out this form to apply.

2. Research Fellowships

Research fellowships are 1 or 2-year fellowships for recently graduated students who are looking to bolster their research or software engineering resume by working on hard technical problems that lead to new and innovative products. These are some of the areas in which such fellowships may be awarded:

– Web application programming with Java, Javascript and SQL
– NLP/AI and data mining experience for mining text
– Software engineering and cloud infrastructure tools

A Ph.D., master’s or bachelor’s degree in CS, IT or an allied discipline is required. Please apply only if you have a deep passion for computer science. Fill out this form to apply.

3. Internships

We have a robust internship program for students from reputed universities. Internships typically focus on projects related to software development, business development or game development.

All positions require excellent communication skills, hunger for challenges, and diligence and attention to detail. Please provide a detailed resume and portfolios of your prior work if available. Fill out this form to apply.

The preferred location for all types of positions is our WeWork office in Bangalore, India but remote work from other cities may be possible in some cases.

We currently have the following full-time positions.

Business development manager

About the role: You will be responsible for building up new business development opportunities and closing deals with our partners and customers.

Key responsibilities:

Manage and own inbound leads coming via various channels
Continuously build the sales pipeline by identifying new sales opportunities in current and new markets/verticals
Drive the BD pipeline, working through the leads, reaching out, prospecting & qualifying potential customers
Prepare sales proposals
Maintain communication and follow through with prospective customers until deal closure
Work with internal teams to develop sales pitches, collateral, templates, etc.
Develop a strong understanding of the product to deliver high quality demos
Execute the BD process to deliver on overall business goals

Key skills/attributes:

At least 2 years of experience in business development, preferably in B2B/SaaS technology firms
Resourceful, detail-oriented, highly organised, hands-on and enthusiastic about growing a startup business
Learning mindset and ability to adapt to changing circumstances in a startup environment
Excellent communication skills, ability to present and negotiate with international customers
Knowledge of multiple languages would be a plus
International exposure would be a plus
A personal passion for fun puzzles and smart games is a plus

Senior infrastructure/DevOps engineer

About the Role: You will take complete responsibility for the IT infrastructure of the highly available PuzzleMe(TM) platform, including developing, scaling, and maintaining it for international customers in all time zones.

Desired skill-sets include the following.

A minimum of 4 years of relevant experience or a Ph.D. is a must for this position
Experience in building high availability, secure web services using cloud hosting services such as Google Cloud/AWS/Linode, etc.
Unix expertise with troubleshooting and debugging skills at the system level (/proc, strace/dtrace, auditd, etc.)
Experience in tuning applications such as node balancers, Tomcat, MySQL, and NodeJS Servers for performance and high availability.
Experience setting up and managing services using docker containers.
Experience setting up, tuning monitoring, and alerting using tools like Zabbix and OpsGenie.
Experience in managing the security of web server infrastructure (pen testing is a plus)
Experience with release management with CI/CD tools.
High level of personal responsibility.
Excellent documentation and communication skills.

Full-stack engineer

This role is for someone who is dynamic and enjoys wearing many hats, and working on whatever is most important at the moment.

Key responsibilities:

Develop new features and infrastructure in support of rapidly emerging business and project requirements
Take responsibility for new projects from conceptualization to deployment
Exhibit patience in incremental development approaches to suit the business needs and in incorporating peer review comments
Find creative solutions to problems that are reasonable and clean
Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design

Key skills/attributes:

A minimum of 2 years experience or a Ph.D. is a must for this position
Web development including Typescript/Javascript/jQuery and other web-dev frameworks, HTML/CSS, responsive web, Java and JSP
Experience writing clean code that is maintainable and scalable
Managing a high-performance relational database with MySQL
Basic scripting and automation for building systems
Native app/Webview development for Android and iOS is an optional plus.
Excellent debugging and performance optimization skills
Appreciation for good design and user experience
Unit and integration testing experience

Frontend engineer

This role is for someone who is dynamic, has a keen sense for design, enjoys building consumer facing user interfaces, good at quick prototyping as well as passionate about building scalable frontend software. Passion for puzzles and games, and making them fun is a plus. Desired skill sets include the following. (You are not required to have each of these skills when you join, but you will have all of them after you join us!)

Key responsibilities:

Architect new UI experiences and frontend infrastructure in support of rapidly emerging business and project requirements
Build consumer grade interfaces that are used by millions of people with smooth user interactions that work across browsers
Quickly build prototypes to demonstrate new features
Exhibit patience with incremental development approaches to suit the business needs and in incorporating peer review comments
Find creative and clean solutions to problems and bring in original ideas

Key skills/attributes:

A minimum of 2 years experience (waived for Ph.D.s) is a must for this position
Web development in any language or framework (Preferred: Typescript/Javascript/jQuery, Bootstrap and other web-dev frameworks), HTML/CSS, responsive web. Experience with frameworks like React and Angular is useful but not essential.
Expertise in CSS, SCSS, CSS hierarchy specificity, SVGs (inlining), animations with CSS and JS, and media queries.
Excellent debugging and performance optimization (e.g. Javascript profiling) skills
Experience with conducting user studies and drawing insights from it
Keen sense for design of a consumer product and a user-first mindset
Experience writing clean code that is maintainable and scalable
Unit and integration testing experience
Native app/webview development for Android and iOS is an optional plus.

We offer excellent compensation, lots of growth opportunities for talented and hungry people, and perks such as medical insurance.

To apply, fill out this form.

General Inquiries (Internship and full-time)

jobs@amuselabs.com

About Amuse Labs

Since its beginning at Stanford University in 2013, Amuse Labs has established itself as the leading SaaS platform provider of smart games. It caters to top brands around the world. Our fun smart games have passionate and captive audiences in many countries and languages. Publishers use these games to engage users, build stickiness, reduce churn and monetize via digital ads or subscriptions. It is a sizeable market and part of the large and growing games industry. See more about our story here.