Live Services Lead

Lead Live Services Engineer

Firaxis Games is seeking a motivated Lead Live Services engineer to join our development team.  We’re looking for an engineer with a strong foundation in software engineering who enjoys working on a diverse set of challenging problems.  This role involves a significant management component and the ideal candidate will be comfortable working with a team of talented engineers to turn high level ideas into low level tasks.  Firaxis is a highly collaborative and iterative environment. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to communicate easily and effectively with fellow coders, designers, producers and artists.

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.

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.

• Experience with multiple languages, frameworks and tools is a plus.

• Strong 3D math skills.

• Self-motivated and passionate about games.

• Has managed an engineering team.

• 7+ years industry experience.

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