Technical Lead [Quality Foundations]

As a Technical Lead in Quality Foundations, you will define and guide the technological vision, choices, and code quality for projects, ensuring adoption of group tech direction and best practices. You will establish quality standards and foster best practices within your dev team. This role involves acting as an expert contact for the game testing community, technical leads, architects, and technology partners to ensure sustainable and coherent solutions that meet diverse needs. Quality Foundations provides tools, middleware, and services to boost game developer efficiency.

Must Have

• Oversee major technical decisions, ensuring consistency and long-term sustainability.
• Define best practices, standards, and strategic orientations for tools development.
• Explore and prototype new technologies, anticipate trends for technical evolution.
• Establish technical direction for system interoperability via an API first approach.
• Facilitate tech alignment and healthy challenge among technical leadership.
• Actively participate in upskilling dev team members through feedback and goals.
• Solid experience in programming and technical leadership.
• Excellent proficiency in C# and .Net.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, automatic testing, profiling, trunk-based development.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in distributed teams.

Good to Have

• Knowledge of Web development languages and paradigms.
• Knowledge of SQL, Blazor, Elastic Search, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenAPI, OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with implementing or integrating Machine Learning features.

Perks & Benefits

• Meal tickets with value of 30 ron/day
• Access to private medical system and special subscription rates for family members
• On site medical support
• World Class subscription
• Comprehensive wellbeing program (including physical fitness, mental health, financial education and internal communities)
• Life insurance
• Ubisoft bikes, free rental
• Parking spaces for cars, bikes, motorbikes
• Video games and consoles to borrow
• Access to Ubisoft games via own Uplay account
• Bookster (borrow books for free, delivered at home or in the office)
• Free fruits and coffee in the office
• Studio offered free days, confirmed on an annual basis for different events
• Study leave
• Christmas/ Easter celebration with a special gift
• Partners’ discounts

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help us create the unknown!

We embrace a hybrid work model helping you stay connected with your team and aligned with business priorities, while giving you the opportunity to maintain your work-life balance. Note, that some roles are fully office based and are not eligible for hybrid work.

JOB DESCRIPTION

About Quality Foundations: we provide tools, middleware, and services adapted to the needs of Ubisoft game production and engine teams. Whether it be middleware, back-end, data, or front-end solutions or expertise, we support our productions throughout their life cycle. Through collaboration and innovation, we contribute to boosting the efficiency of game developers by providing modern and tailored solutions.

As a Technical Lead within Quality Foundations, you will define and guide the technological vision, the technological choices, and the quality of the code of your project, ensuring the adoption of the group’s tech direction and best practices.

Your role will be essential in establishing quality standards and fostering the adoption of best practices amongst your dev team. You will act as an expert and important point of contact for members of the game testing community, technical leads and architects from other groups, and other technology partners to ensure that our solutions meet diverse needs while remaining sustainable and coherent.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical leadership: oversee major technical decisions of your project, ensuring consistency and long-term sustainability.
• Technical direction: participate along with other tech leads and architects to define best practices, standards, and strategic orientations for tools development within Quality Foundations.
• Prototyping: explore and prototype new technologies, anticipate trends to contribute actively to Quality Foundations technical evolution.
• System integration: Establish the technical direction to assure system interoperability by promoting an API first approach.
• Collaboration: facilitate and foster tech alignment and healthy challenge amongst the Quality Foundations technical leadership group.
• Mentoring: participate actively in the upskilling of the members of the dev team by providing constructive feedback and setting evolution goals in collaboration with the team lead.

Why This Role Is for You

• You’re passionate about building cohesive, sustainable ecosystems and driving technological convergence.
• You excel at translating business needs into technical solutions and vice versa.
• You can synthesize complex situations into clear, visual, and textual representations tailored to different audiences.
• You’re comfortable diving into technical details while maintaining a high-level perspective.
• You have strong convictions about best practices but can adapt to diverse constraints and viewpoints.
• You like acting as a mentor and you care about helping developers on your team learn and develop their skills

QUALIFICATIONS

What You Bring

• Solid experience in programming and technical leadership.
• Excellent proficiency in C#, .Net.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automatic testing, application profiling, trunk-based development and modern development workflows
• Knowledge of Web development languages and paradigms is considered an asset
• Knowledge of SQL, Blazor, Elastic Search, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenAPI, OpenTelemetry is considered an asset
• Experience with implementing or integrating Machine Learning features is considered an asset
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, especially in distributed team environments.
• A passion for sharing knowledge and pushing technological boundaries.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

What do we offer benefits wise?

• Meal tickets with value of 30 ron/day
• Access to private medical system and special subscription rates for family members
• On site medical support
• World Class subscription
• Comprehensive wellbeing program (including physical fitness, mental health, financial education and internal communities)
• Life insurance
• Ubisoft bikes, free rental
• Parking spaces for cars, bikes, motorbikes
• Video games and consoles to borrow
• Access to Ubisoft games via own Uplay account
• Bookster (borrow books for free, delivered at home or in the office)
• Free fruits and coffee in the office
• Studio offered free days, confirmed on an annual basis for different events
• Study leave
• Christmas/ Easter celebration with a special gift
• Partners’ discounts