Lead Technical Director

Penrose Studios crafts ground-breaking immersive stories and worlds, and needs your help building a platform for this new artistic medium.  We seek a passionate and experienced lead engineer who is excited about guiding a talented team. You will work in frontier technologies such as blockchain, AR and VR, and you will be responsible for ensuring a clean codebase that is scalable and built for the long-term.

Responsibilities

• Managing engineering projects end-to-end
• Coordinating internal teams, including security, IT and developers
• Implementing and maintaining new systems
• Oversee front-end and back-end development teams and their projects
• Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements
• Ensure compliance with security regulations
• Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals and timelines
• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources
• Help determine ways of adapting content for a large list of VR and AR devices
• Collaborate with the content team to develop plans for releasing material on numerous platforms
• Hire engineers and coordinate their training

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in games, visual effects or related field
• At least two years of software engineering leadership experience
• Strong knowledge of at least one game engine
• Strong knowledge of C++, Python, C, C#, Java, or Rust
• Collaborative mindset and ability to communicate effectively
• Strong debugging, profiling, and run-time analysis skills

Preferred

• Experience with iOS and Android development
• Experience with SDKs and writing plugins for third party applications
• Experience developing cross-platform software
• Experience in developing blockchain applications