Scopely is looking for a remote Technical Director to join our external development team at Scopely to join an ambitious new AAA cross-platform game.
At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
What You’ll Do
- Technical Leadership and Support:
- Identify and implement cutting-edge technical solutions between Scopely’s central technology teams and external development studios.
- Establish technical best-practices for an at-scale live operations gaming including server orchestration, release management, social systems, matchmaking, and more.
- Partner with external development studios to establish technical benchmarks and goal-setting for performance metrics to ensure the game meets quality standards.
- Strategic Planning:
- Identify gaps in technical architecture and develop strategies to address them, from internal development to external vendor partnerships.
- Advocate for investments aligning with Scopely's future goals in cross-platform games and technical requirements for live-service, competitive multiplayer titles.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with Product Management, Game Design, Analytics, LiveOps, Quality Assurance, Customer Service, and other teams to ensure seamless integration with our publishing infrastructure.
- Oversee implementation of tools empowering our Live Ops & Game Design teams to create engaging experiences.
- Drive Innovation
- Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies, leveraging expertise to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
- Contribute to building a culture of innovation and excellence within the engineering team, pushing boundaries for best-in-class technical solutions.
- Team Development:
- Contribute to building and mentoring a team of talented engineers, providing guidance and support as they tackle complex technical challenges.
- Foster a culture of excellence and collaboration, empowering the team to deliver high-quality results.
What We’re Looking For
- 7+ years experience as a software engineer
- 4+ years of technical leadership experience, building and managing high-performing software engineering teams
- Experience in developing backends and servers for large-scale, real-time multiplayer games with best-in-class technical infrastructures
- Experience developing tools and technologies for LiveOps and product management (e.g. running in-game economies, events, etc.)
- C++ and C# experience
- Broad knowledge of different architectures and how they apply to specific goals (e.g. CPU performance, efficient data storage or code understandability etc.)
- Pragmatic and sustainable approach to programming and creating extensible and maintainable high performance code
- Solid Linux skills (Bash, working with log files, monitoring IO etc.)
- Ability to write efficient low-latency and low-IO code
- Experience working with Redis, ORMs and migration scripts
- Experienced in developing and deploying large-scale web services
- Solid understanding on how to prevent intrusions, injections, cheating etc.
- Be a gamer
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