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Lead Game Software Engineer (Xamarin)
1 year ago
Summary
Big Fish is looking for a driven and talented Lead Engineer to lead a small engineering team supporting our hit mobile games Gummy Drop and Cooking Craze. Bring your leadership, coding and technical chops, and passion for game development to some of our most successful games.
This role requires a deep understanding of Xamarin Native, familiarity with Unity, C# game software development and native mobile development, as well as the ability to understand and work within a mature and complex existing codebase. Creativity, attention to detail, high coding standards, and maintaining the stability of the codebase are essential.
You will be interfacing with internal product teams as well as external developers, so excellent communication and collaboration skills are also important for this position.What you'll do
- Provide technical leadership for a small team of software engineers supporting a Xamarin Native based mobile and UWP game.
- Work with engineers, QA, product owners, and producers to provide high quality support for Gummy Drop!.
- Provide troubleshooting support for the Unity based mobile game Cooking Craze.
- Accurately estimate and prioritize development timeframes so delivery date of new features is predictable.
- Be agile to quickly understand this game’s technology stack and processes in order to help integrate the SDKs and software services that Big Fish provides.
- Explore, experiment, and integrate new technologies.
Additional Responsibilities
- Be flexible in order to adapt to the shifting priorities that come from working with the complexities of live game operations.
- Familiarize yourself with the game’s codebase in order to offer technical advice or help troubleshoot issues.
- Interface with the external game development studio and understand their processes, build systems, and methodologies.
- Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical parties to ensure understanding of priorities, services, and goals.
- Role may have up to 4 direct reports.
What we're looking for
- 2+ years in a lead engineering role, including defining priorities and maintaining schedules for a group of engineers.
- 5+ years professional experience in software development (mobile preferred)
- Experience with Xamarin development including integrating native iOS and Android libraries (NuGet packages and custom SDK bindings) is strongly preferred
- Familiarity with Unity development
- Native mobile development experience (iOS/Objective-C, Android/Java) a plus
- Strong C# skills
- Experience integrating complex third-party libraries and services, can work with technical and non-technical parties for testing and usage
- Ability to develop high performance, high quality, and scalable solutions
- Experience with server-side development.
- An understanding of server systems and how they interact with games.
- Excellent communication, critical thinking, and analytical skills
- Ability to multitask and prioritize competing tasks. Effectively context switch to and from unplanned work
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive, and a track record of delivery
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