Live Services Lead

Summary

Join Firaxis Games as a Lead Live Services engineer and lead a programming team, balancing management, delegation, and implementation. You will evaluate team work, provide feedback, identify project risks, and collaborate with other teams. Responsibilities include developing high-performance code, modifying existing code, and working with the game team. The ideal candidate has excellent communication skills, is highly proficient in C++, and has experience with Go, AWS, analytics, and Perforce, JIRA, and TeamCity. A strong problem-solving aptitude and 7+ years of industry experience are required, along with experience managing an engineering team. Passion for games is a must.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills
• Highly proficient in C++ programming language
• Experience with Go programming language
• Strong AWS knowledge
• Expert of analytics and telemetry and how they interact with game systems
• Experience with Perforce, JIRA, TeamCity
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Strong 3D math skills
• Self-motivated and passionate about games
• Has managed an engineering team
• 7+ years industry experience

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a programming team at technical and personnel level
• Find the ideal balance of management, delegation, and actual implementation
• Breakdown and evaluate the work performed by the team and provide feedback for architectural improvement
• Identify risks involved with the project and provide solutions to resolve complex problems
• Collaborate with other teams (internal or external) to efficiently meet technical needs
• Develop high-performance, robust, maintainable code in a cross-platform environment
• Design and implement modifications, reorganizations, extensions, and optimizations to existing code base
• Work closely with the entire game team providing technical, creative, and scheduling feedback
• Actively maintain skill-set and knowledge base by keeping track of the latest innovations from the industry

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with multiple languages, frameworks and tools is a plus