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Lead Software Engineer, Features

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Lead Software Engineer, Features

Pull up a chair and join us! Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a talented software engineer to join the Hearthstone team as an engineering leader for one of our Features teams. The ideal candidate will have a passion for making Hearthstone be the best it can be, while providing technical leadership for a team of engineers. Blizzard offers a fun, creative, and technically challenging environment with excellent compensation and a full range of benefits.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical mentorship and guidance for a small team of engineers.
• Create and enhance various game features on the client and server.
• Support emergent issues in a live environment.
• Assist Production with establishing engineering schedules, tasks, and requirements.
• Work with the Technical Director and promote the core values of the engineering team.
• Stay current with Hearthstone’s design and business goals.

Requirements

• Significant experience delivering high quality, production ready code.
• Experience with C++ and C#.
• Prior experience leading engineering teams.
• Familiarity with performance analysis and code optimization.
• Some experience with Unity.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• High comfort level extending and improving an established code base.

Pluses

• A burning desire to make the gameplay of Hearthstone the best that it can be.
• Experience supporting and shipping AAA game titles.
• Experience developing card games or other turn-based strategy titles.
• iOS and/or Android development experience.
• Experience supporting a live service.
• Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related degree.
• Familiarity with Hearthstone.