Lead Developer

3 Months ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Lead Developer will guide and architect for a team on large-scale game development projects for PC, Xbox Series, and PlayStation 5. Responsibilities include executing development strategies, organizing tasks, ensuring objectives are met, guiding the team on best practices, coaching team members, ensuring compliant processes, communicating with management, participating in development, collaborating with other teams, proposing improvements, ensuring quality, writing technical documents, and ensuring clean, commented code. The Lead Developer reports to the Technical Director and provides necessary information.

Job Details

About the position
For our ongoing and unannounced projects, we are looking for a versatile Lead Developer motivated by various missions around Gameplay, Animation, Graphics and Tool fields, on large-scale game development projects for PC, Xbox Series and PlayStation 5, in order to establish guidance and architecture for our team of talented developers.

Main responsibilities

  • Make the team execute the development strategy defined in cooperation with the Technical Director ;

  • Organize tasks among developers and support them to establish the fairest estimates ;

  • Commit the team to meeting all objectives according to producer’s goals ;

  • Guide daily the team on the best choice to proceed in order to maximize the production safety ;

  • Coach your team members on their skills by sharing knowledge and mentoring the junior ones ;

  • Make sure the working processes are applied in a compliant way ;

  • Efficiently communicate messages to and from upper management ;

  • When needed, be part of the development, especially to implement the most critical features ;

  • Collaborate with other development, art or production teams, whatever local or remote ;

  • Make propositions to improve existing functionalities, for the sake of the final quality of the game ;

  • Make sure the provided work result fit the expected quality and is delivered on time ;

  • When necessary, write or make write tech documents explaining the developed or studied systems ;

  • Make sure the developer team deliver a clean, clearly commented and structured code, in respect of the suitable conditions of performance and reliability ;

  • Report to the referent Technical Director and provide with all the necessary information.

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About The Company

Founded in 2004, Virtuos is one of the largest independent video game development companies. We are headquartered in Singapore with over 3,800 employees across 23 offices in Asia, Europe, and North America. Specializing in full-cycle game development and art production, we have delivered

high-quality content for more than 1,500 console, PC, and mobile games. Our clients include 23 of the top 25 gaming companies worldwide. Visit www.virtuosgames.com to find out how we can make games better, together.

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