Tech Lead - Matchmaking

As a Tech Lead, you will play an important role in securing the success of Embark by engaging in scaling our teams and ensuring the quality and performance of our services. The Shared Teams at Embark are focused on building powerful and reusable infrastructure and backend components for our games. Some examples of things we’re working on are matchmaking, authentication, gameserver infrastructure, etc. Some of the technologies we use to make all of those are Go, C++, Rust, GCP, AWS, Bazel, Terraform, Kubernetes, Google Spanner.

You have previous experience working as a Tech Lead or multiple years as an engineer within agile teams. You often act as an informal leader and you can give multiple examples of when somebody listened and followed you. You find it tiresome when tasks come to a standstill, and can't stand when actions don't progress. So while having a high drive and having the ability to make things move forward, you also can foresee upcoming strategic decisions. Your wide view helps you make your team design and develop scalable solutions for the future.

Your responsibilities will include overseeing the team's deliverables, weighing in on technical and design decisions, and being the team's primary interface towards both stakeholders and other teams. The lead also works with project leadership to plan out upcoming feature work, being a strong voice regarding the team's priorities and capacity. Finally, the lead is responsible for the effectiveness and health of both the team as a whole, as well as its individual members. This includes being the member's responsible manager.

Example of responsibilities

• Foster a culture of learning, trust, responsibility, and friendliness
• Drive technical development and provide leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment
• Enable the team to reach their targets by removing impediments, clarifying goals and initiatives, and fostering ownership and accountability
• Work closely with engineers and product management to ensure we're building products in the best way
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Make sure the team has the talent it needs to succeed long-term by hiring great people

It would be awesome if you have

• Experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers towards delivering timely, high quality software together with them.
• Solid developer background, with previous experience developing large scale systems.
• Experience from a high-paced engineering organization working with CI, scalability, and automation, etc.
• You are experienced in working with a diverse set of partners and helping them understand the trade-offs to different product and technical decisions.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills along with outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English.

At Embark we offer competitive salaries, a generous profit-sharing program, and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.

We welcome people from all backgrounds and are looking forward to reading more about you (in English)!