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Lead Online Programmer [Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora]

Job Description

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ is a first person, action-adventure game developed by Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft studio in collaboration with Lightstorm Entertainment and Disney. Built using the latest iteration of the Snowdrop engine, and developed exclusively for the new generation of consoles and PC, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora brings to life the alluring world of Pandora with all of its beauty and danger in an immersive, open world experience.

As a Lead Online Programmer, you will supervise a team of four motivated online programmers and improve the development of online features. Your responsibility will be to ensure new features and systems meet high performance requirements and match the project’s C++ code style. You will write, and assist your team to write, clean, maintainable, portable code with the goal of bringing the best online experience to our players. As the lead you will also handle the HR aspects within your team by i.e. reoccurring performance feedback and salary review.

This is a permanent position based in Malmö, Sweden. We kindly ask you to apply with your CV and message to the hiring manager / cover letter in English. Applications will be reviewed whilst the job-ad is posted.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement performant online services with focus on security, scalability & reliability
• Ensuring quality and efficiency for the code, the tools and the over-all process
• Encouraging and maintaining an honest and open feedback culture
• Organizing work and backlog using project management/ planning tools i.e. Jira
• Plan and perform load tests, as well as evaluate the results to suggest changes and improvements.

Qualifications

You as a person

We are looking for a well-organized senior online programmer who find the growth of the team important. You can review and give feedback in a clear and constructive manner and it is beneficial if you know how to handle different situations, such as salary-review as well as topics like personal- and professional development. You are comfortable working in an international environment, have good communication skills in English, and aligned with our core values. We would also like to see that you have the following skills and experiences:

• Professional experience of working with C++, including package management, refactoring, optimization, debugging and testing
• Experience from some of the big cloud service providers such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure
• Knowledge of database design & programming, with focus on PostgreSQL
• Network programming experience

Beneficial if you have:

• Knowledge of the pitfalls and key learnings of motivating a team forward
• Experience using Google Cloud Platform, which is the cloud platform used by the project
• Knowledge of console and online games development

Good to know
As we aim to build a team who continuously push the boundaries of what’s possible within game development (and because we love to learn and grow from the people around us), we might ask you to do a practical test as a part of the recruitment process. We look forward to receiving your application and learning more about you.Meanwhile, please check-out the videos posted below and our employee perks here, to gain greater insight into life at Massive.

Additional Information

Massive Entertainment is a world-leading AAA studio located in Malmö, Sweden and part of the Ubisoft family. We’re a multinational team of more than 650 passionate and highly skilled people from 50+ different countries. Our studio’s goal has always been – and still is – to craft the finest gaming experiences for all players.

At Massive, you get to do what you love most while bringing your own experience to our ongoing projects, like Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and The Star Wars Project. We're also developing new tech here, such as our in-house engine Snowdrop, and Ubisoft Connect - Ubisoft's digital ecosystem and distribution platform.

All your application information will be kept confidential according to EEO & GDPR guidelines.