JavaScript Technical Lead

4 Months ago • All levels • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a JavaScript Technical Lead at Playtika, you'll lead and mentor a team, define professional standards, and collaborate with architects. Responsibilities include integrating between teams, leading discussions, and approving tasks. You'll work on Slotomania, the #1 Social Slots Game, extending and improving its codebase across various web and mobile platforms. Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and relevant design patterns is crucial, along with experience in game engines, testing methodologies, cross-platform programming, and performance optimization.
Must have:
  • JavaScript/TypeScript fluency
  • SOLID, IoC, OOP, Design Patterns knowledge
  • Codebase extension & improvement
  • Game engine experience
  • Testing & TDD experience
  • Cross-platform programming
  • Performance analysis & optimization
Good to have:
  • Babel, Rollup/Webpack, NPM, Node.js experience
  • C++/Java experience

Job Details

Join us at Playtika (NASDAQ: PLTK), where we're driven by the belief life needs play. We’re on a mission to deliver infinite ways to play using cutting-edge technologies like AI and machine learning to craft immersive experiences that connect, inspire and entertain millions of players worldwide. 

From our start as a small mobile games company founded in Israel to our current position as a publicly traded company and industry leader, we continue to be a dominant force in interactive entertainment. With a diverse portfolio of award-winning, category-leading Casual and Social Casino-themed games, including nine of the top 100 highest-grossing mobile games in the US, we're setting the standard for excellence. 

Our success story is co-authored by a dynamic team of storytellers, strategists, creators and data scientists who thrive on innovation. We are home of the best, advancing an inclusive culture that embraces our core values and reflects our agile DNA. 

With a strong financial foundation, disciplined operations, unwavering player-focused approach and  relentless can-do spirit, we're well-positioned for sustained growth. If you're ready to join the driving force behind the evolution of interactive entertainment, we invite you to come play with us.  

Slotomania is the #1 Social Slots Game in the world, the industry leader (#2 grossing games developer on Facebook and #1 grossing social games developer on iOS and Android), and Playtika’s flagman game, boasts over 160 slot games. It is available on the different web platforms (Facebook is a major) and mobile platforms (Apple App Store, Google Play, Amazon, Windows Mobile, Viber games).

Responsibilities: 

— Acts as a functional leader – integrates between teams, creates knowledge-sharing methods and defines professional standards for the entire unit

— Leads professional discussions in their domain 

— Mentors colleagues in relevant domains and sometimes approves part of their tasks and projects 

— Responsible for communication with the architects and working in full collaboration with them 

— Working closely with a team on tasks 

Requirements: 
— Professional programming experience with fluency in JavaScript and Typescript 
— Deep knowledge of a SOLID, IoC, OOP, Software Design Pattern, client/server architecture 
— High comfort level extending and improving an established codebase 
— Experience in off-the-shelf game engines as well as native or custom engines on web\mobile platforms 
— Experience unit testing or functional testing, instrumentation, and test harnesses TDD mindset 
— Experience in cross-platform programming
— Experience in performance analysis and code optimization 
 
Nice to have: 
— Experience with Babel, Rollup|Webpack, NPM, Node.js 
— Experience with C++/Java

 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  

If you feel the above describes you perfectly - Apply now! 

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About The Company

For a decade Playtika has been a pioneer in the games industry with more than 34 million monthly active users across a portfolio of casual games titles. We were among the first to offer free-to-play games on social networks, and shortly after, on mobile platforms. Playtika creates disruptive gaming experiences that are reshaping the gaming landscape using cutting-edge technologies in Live-Ops, Data Analytics and Performance Marketing. As a digital entertainment powerhouse, Playtika processes 9TB of data daily. Our creative team translate data-driven insights into customized story lines that deliver exciting challenges and surprising thrills, at every twist and every turn. We move fast, seizing new opportunities, pushing boundaries and leveraging the technology and talent we’ve acquired along the way. At Playtika, we are storytellers and coders, artists and data-scientists, explorers and strategists. We don’t just build games, we bring them to life. We create infinite ways to play. Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, Playtika has over 3700 employees in offices worldwide including Ramat Gan, Berlin, , Warsaw, Vienna, Helsinki, Chicago, Las Vegas, Santa Monica, Sydney, Kyiv, Bucharest, Minsk, Dnepr, and Vinnytsia.

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