Software Engineering Lead

We are looking for a Software Engineering Lead to join our team developing an upcoming and exciting mobile game.

Reporting to the Director of Technology, you will be managing a group of friendly and motivated engineers (2-3 direct reports) based in Montreal. The goal for your team is to create and maintain core systems & innovative features, optimize code for high performance targets, and build amazing tools to enable game developers to bring their content to life to be enjoyed by millions of players.

This position comes with a high level of ownership and influence working with a small team of highly effective and enthusiastic developers. The role will have a mix of hands-on development and management responsibilities.

What You'll Do

• Write efficient, reusable & maintainable code

• Provide technical analysis, documentation for new systems

• Mentor and guide game developers, providing technical direction,
  career development support, and opportunities for skill growth.

• Coordination & negotiation with external stakeholders (engineering,
  production, design, art, QA) 

Tech Stack:

• Unity, C#, URP, Addressables

• Google Cloud, Firebase

• Jenkins, Gradle, Groovy

• NewRelic

What We're Looking For

• Gaming Experience: with building Live Games in a Technical capacity

• Strong game programming expertise (OOP, high-performance computing)

• Experience leading or mentoring team members

• Experience with Unity C# or Unreal

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with microservice architecture

• Experience building CI/CD tools

• B.S. in Computer Science

Required Soft Skills:

• Strong communication & negotiation skills

• Excellent critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills

• Actively seek to streamline development efforts, reducing
  Time To Market

• Foster a positive and
  collaborative team culture 

• Promote open communication, knowledge sharing, and
  continuous improvement

• Maintains an adaptive mindset, responding quickly to changes in project scope, requirements, or market conditions

Why Product Madness?

You will be joining a global powerhouse where you will be part of a world-class talented team that creates remarkable hit games such as Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino, Mighty Fu, and Big Fish Casino.  The success of these titles has led to over 400 million downloads and more than 50 million active users. But there is no stopping us there, we also have a new games team that is working on bringing new hit games to the market. Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital games division of Pixel United. 

Outstanding growth has seen us build Product Madness to more than 800 team members and counting, you can join one of our seven global talent hubs including London, USA, Canada, Spain, Poland, Ukraine & Israel.

You will be part of a company that is not only Mad about games but Mad about our people. Living by our value of people first, you will feel this firsthand from the moment you step into one of our fantastic studios. This is made possible by our amazing studio experience team who help make Product Madness such a fun place to work. Be it arranging endless snacks, weekly breakfasts & lunches, lavish Christmas & summer parties, happy hour drinks, social get-togethers and so much more. 

So what is stopping you from coming and joining the Madness?

Benefits:

• Flexibility: Flexible working schedules & Hybrid mode (2 days/week in office) 

• Health Benefits: Health care coverage on your first day of employment with competitive plans and virtual Health care offered 

• Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) + Wellness spending account (500$) 

• Time Off: 3 weeks + 4 floating days + 7 personal/sick days + Christmas shutdown 

• Financial Benefits: 100% match up to 4% on Group RRSPs + SuperShare eligibility where for every 2 Aristocrat Technologies (ATI) shares you buy, up to the set maximum, you will receive 1 for free 

• Team Member Assistance Fund: Up to $1,000 annually in financial support if you fall on hard times and need financial assistance  

• Commuting allowance (public transport or parking expense) 

• Free lunch + happy hours in the office 

• Access to LinkedIn Learning 

• Fun monthly team building events  

• + Many More ! 

Travel Expectations

None