CONTRACT - Software Engineer (NTD) (Finance)

Nintendo Technology Development

The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Nintendo Switch ™ system and the Nintendo 3DS ™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System ™ , Nintendo has sold more than 4.7 billion video games and more than 740 million hardware units globally, including Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, as well as the Game Boy ™ , Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS ™ family of systems, Super NES ™ , Nintendo 64 ™ , Nintendo GameCube ™ , Wii ™ and Wii U ™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names, such as Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid, Zelda and Pokémon. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo Technology Development, based in Redmond, Washington, creates future hardware/software technology and researches North American-based technologies.

We are a small group at Nintendo doing production software. We develop the core networking software on Nintendo's game systems. We are looking for a strong C software developer to increase the robustness of our software. You should have a passion for network technologies and protocols (L3 and above), learning, solving problems, and making our software better.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

• Creating or enhancing tests (e.g., creating multi-core versions)
• Diagnosing failures.
• Port, maintain, upgrade, or customize open source software.
• Perform performance analysis and optimizations.
• Prototype features.
• May take lead role of software components.
• Review code.