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Senior Software Engineer
Level99United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Mar 2025
About the role
WHO WE ARE
Level99 is a first-of-its-kind destination for real-world, social, challenge-based entertainment for adults featuring over 50 mental and physical challenges set in immersive, artistic environments. Each challenge is designed to bring a group together in engaging activities that take 2 to 4 minutes to complete, sparking moments of laughter in epic fails and high-fives in triumphant wins. From navigating our iconic Axe Run, to solving puzzles in a Crystal Cavern, to conquering the largest pinball game imaginable, Level99 offers endless ways to play using both body and mind. Level99 tracks each player’s progress as they work their way up the coveted leaderboard or try to collect every “star” available in the venue, unlocking exclusive rewards as they play. To enhance the gaming experience, Level99 offers a full-service bar, restaurant, and beer hall, Night Shift Kitchen + Tap, that features scratch-made cooking, legendary craft beers, hand-made creative cocktails, and a variety of dining and gathering spaces for events. In 2025, we will be adding Victory Brewing in Tysons, VA and Two Roads Kitchen + Tap in West Hartford, CT to our group of restaurants as we team up with local brewers in support of our northeast expansion. We will also be opening a fifth location at Disney Springs, FL.
Level99 opened its first location in 2021 in Natick, MA, followed by its second location in Providence, RI in 2024. A young, entrepreneurial company, Level99 has immediate plans to triple in size over the next 18 months. We are backed by Act III Holdings, led by Panera founder Ron Shaich, and we have a talented team that has worked on successful entertainment projects such as 5 Wits, Boda Borg, Blue Man Group, and Walt Disney Imagineering. This position is an opportunity for an experienced and motivated individual to dive into a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you can apply your skills in a fun and exciting setting that brings joy and entertainment to hundreds of thousands of people each year. More information on Level99 and our restaurants is available at http://www.level99.com.
JOB DESCRIPTION
A Sr. Software Engineer on the Platform Team is responsible for the design and development of best-in-class software that operates as the foundation of the Level99 experience. A Level99 software engineer can expect to work on a broad range of applications and domains including modern web development, front-end interactive software, scalable back-end APIs and infrastructure, and more, both for internal use and for customer facing applications. Level99 Engineers identify critical aspects of new challenges and propose solutions that take technical, experiential, and creative needs into account. They work closely with the project management, product, and in-venue teams to ensure that each software solution meets the technical and creative requirements of each feature. The Sr. Software Engineer maintains high standards of code quality and adheres to industry-standard best practices for software development.
In addition to creating new applications and features, the Sr. Software Engineer participates in code reviews, actively enhances the skills and learning of junior team members, proactively works to eliminate technical debt, and works to keep their skills up to date with rapidly changing technologies. This is a “working” design engineer role, with the Sr. Software Engineer responsible for managing and organizing the work, as well as prototyping and implementing finished solutions directly.
Level99 is a first-of-its-kind destination for real-world, social, challenge-based entertainment for adults featuring over 50 mental and physical challenges set in immersive, artistic environments. Each challenge is designed to bring a group together in engaging activities that take 2 to 4 minutes to complete, sparking moments of laughter in epic fails and high-fives in triumphant wins. From navigating our iconic Axe Run, to solving puzzles in a Crystal Cavern, to conquering the largest pinball game imaginable, Level99 offers endless ways to play using both body and mind. Level99 tracks each player’s progress as they work their way up the coveted leaderboard or try to collect every “star” available in the venue, unlocking exclusive rewards as they play. To enhance the gaming experience, Level99 offers a full-service bar, restaurant, and beer hall, Night Shift Kitchen + Tap, that features scratch-made cooking, legendary craft beers, hand-made creative cocktails, and a variety of dining and gathering spaces for events. In 2025, we will be adding Victory Brewing in Tysons, VA and Two Roads Kitchen + Tap in West Hartford, CT to our group of restaurants as we team up with local brewers in support of our northeast expansion. We will also be opening a fifth location at Disney Springs, FL.
Level99 opened its first location in 2021 in Natick, MA, followed by its second location in Providence, RI in 2024. A young, entrepreneurial company, Level99 has immediate plans to triple in size over the next 18 months. We are backed by Act III Holdings, led by Panera founder Ron Shaich, and we have a talented team that has worked on successful entertainment projects such as 5 Wits, Boda Borg, Blue Man Group, and Walt Disney Imagineering. This position is an opportunity for an experienced and motivated individual to dive into a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you can apply your skills in a fun and exciting setting that brings joy and entertainment to hundreds of thousands of people each year. More information on Level99 and our restaurants is available at http://www.level99.com.
JOB DESCRIPTION
A Sr. Software Engineer on the Platform Team is responsible for the design and development of best-in-class software that operates as the foundation of the Level99 experience. A Level99 software engineer can expect to work on a broad range of applications and domains including modern web development, front-end interactive software, scalable back-end APIs and infrastructure, and more, both for internal use and for customer facing applications. Level99 Engineers identify critical aspects of new challenges and propose solutions that take technical, experiential, and creative needs into account. They work closely with the project management, product, and in-venue teams to ensure that each software solution meets the technical and creative requirements of each feature. The Sr. Software Engineer maintains high standards of code quality and adheres to industry-standard best practices for software development.
In addition to creating new applications and features, the Sr. Software Engineer participates in code reviews, actively enhances the skills and learning of junior team members, proactively works to eliminate technical debt, and works to keep their skills up to date with rapidly changing technologies. This is a “working” design engineer role, with the Sr. Software Engineer responsible for managing and organizing the work, as well as prototyping and implementing finished solutions directly.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ideate, develop, specify, design, test, and maintain software applications, features, and fixes as required
- Build software components and features in a variety of disciplines, such as:
- Customer facing interfaces, including web applications, kiosk terminals and screen-based interactives
- Internal applications and staff tools
- Back-end infrastructure, including API design and database management
- DevOps tasks, such as toolchain development and system monitoring
- Schedule, plan for, present at, and lead review meetings pertaining to engineered designs
- Translate preliminary concepts into technically sound, actionable specifications and communicate these to relevant team members
- Develop software features at every stage of their life cycle, including ideation, specification, risk assessment, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Accurately estimate the duration of software related tasks and feature additions to aid in company-wide planning and work scheduling
- Iteratively improve concepts and implementations as they progress through the Software Development Life Cycle
- Identify areas of technical debt and/or risk and implement strategies to fix them
- Communicate
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