Staff Web Engineer

*This role requires fluent English. Only resumes in English will be considered.*

We are looking for a visionary Staff Web Engineer to join our innovative team, where you will have the opportunity to shape the future of our web platform, tech stack and tools. This is a strategic leadership role where you will drive the development and evolution of our web applications, ensuring unmatched performance, scalability, and user experience. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, mentor the next generation of engineers, and champion best practices to propel our web technology to the next level.

As a Staff Web Engineer, you will be at the forefront of designing, building, and optimizing our web platform, directly influencing the direction and success of our product suite. This role combines hands-on coding with high-level strategic thinking, allowing you to define the architecture and deployment pipelines that ensure our applications are robust, scalable, and future-ready. Your expertise will guide the technical vision and empower the team to deliver exceptional, user-centric web experiences. In this role, you will drive key initiatives such as overseeing our next generation of web platform capabilities, repo branching strategies, CI/CD processes, and implementing customer-centric web performance optimizations. You'll also serve as a mentor and technical leader, conducting code reviews, fostering an inclusive engineering culture, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions. This is a unique opportunity to have a significant impact on a rapidly evolving web platform and contribute to the growth and success of our organization.

• Lead Web Development Initiatives: Design, develop, and maintain responsive and high-performance web applications using Angular and other modern web technologies.

• Architect and Implement Solutions: Work closely with product and design teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions that are scalable and maintainable.

• Git Branching Strategy: Advocate and encourage Git branching strategies, ensuring streamlined development workflows, code quality, and efficient collaboration across teams.

• Manage Frequent Releases: Oversee release trains, ensuring timely and predictable release cycles. Use feature flags to decouple deployment from feature release, allowing delayed testing and progressive rollouts.

• Continuous Deployment: Partner with DevOps and drive the implementation and improvement of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, ensuring that code is automatically tested, integrated, and deployed with minimal manual intervention.

• Code Review and Quality Assurance: Conduct code reviews to maintain high coding standards, optimize performance, and ensure best practices are followed.

• Mentorship: Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement

• Collaboration: Collaborate with backend engineers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality products that meet business goals.

• Performance Optimization: Identify bottlenecks and optimize performance across the application stack, ensuring fast and responsive user experiences.

• Stay Current with Industry Trends: Keep up to date with the latest trends and advancements in web development, bringing innovative ideas and technologies to the team.

• 7+ years of experience using modern web technologies and frameworks like React, Angular, NestJS, Node.JS, GraphQL.

• Technical Skills: Highly proficient in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3. Familiarity with full stack development, GraphQL, API development a plus.

• Version Control: Expertise in Git and experience managing complex branching strategies in largescale projects.

• Continuous Deployment: Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitLab CI or others.

• Agile Methodologies: Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile teams.

• Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues. • Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Leadership: Proven experience mentoring and leading teams of engineers, with a focus on fostering customer obsession, bias for action and a collaborative and team culture.

• Competitive remuneration.
• Dynamic, multicultural and fun environment.
• You will be working at the world's leading provider of game services.
• Supportive community inclusive of LGBTQ+, and any age, ethnicity, religion, or disability.

Who we are

PTW is a global games services company, providing technical and creative services to many of the largest developers and studios around the world. Founded in Japan in 1994, PTW has grown to become a global force in gaming industry, with over 40 studios in 16 countries worldwide and offices across America, Europe, South America, and Asia.

Our industry leading services include art production, game development, quality assurance, plaer support, community management, localization, localization QA,audio production, and data collection. The PTW family of brands includes SIDE, 1518 Studios and Ghostpunch Games. For more information, visit www.ptw.com.