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Lead Web Applications Engineer
2 years ago
About ProbablyMonsters™ Family of Studios
ProbablyMonsters Family of Studios is developing 3 simultaneous AAA games in multiple genres. Since our launch in 2019, we have built 3 studios so far. Firewalk™ is working on a new multiplayer game to be exclusively published by PlayStation. Cauldron™ is developing a single-player, adventure-driven game and our RPG Team has a next-gen open world experience in progress.
We recently announced the largest Series A raise in game development history at $200 MILLION to continue building long-lasting game studios. We are committed to providing our teams with the resources and creative environment needed to foster stable, rewarding, and life-long careers. Our Monster mindset of people-first, our ethos of predictable excellence, and our purpose of inspiring a healthier industry has attracted 230 likeminded professionals who unapologetically defend the sustainable home we have built together, a home free of storms that allows for focused creativity.
We are looking for a Lead Web Applications Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will partner with Technical Program Managers and UX Designers to lead a team in developing the foundation of our product management systems which will support our portfolio of studios and products.
If you want to join a people-first company committed to helping everyone create amazing games while creating a powerful and supportive set of new products using the latest technologies, then this is the job for you!
This role’s key focus is on building a web-based, application stack that ProbablyMonsters will use to manage and track all our portfolio products across all stages of development and operation. You will lead a team of developers responsible for laying the foundation and building the future of how we manage every aspect of the game development lifecycle and integrate with 3rd party systems to connect and share data.
Who You Are:
- A leader excited by being instrumental in the foundation of a critically important business-wide product management system.
- You take pride in writing high-quality software and adaptive, scalable frameworks.
- You understand the challenges and pitfalls with building scalable and maintainable applications and services, across a tiered architecture and can navigate through them without issue.
- An expert in web application architectures and an engaging, inclusive, and respectful leader.
- You know when to focus on short-term needs and when to focus on building for the future.
- You enjoy working with our partners to make their dreams become reality.
- Self-driven with the ability to deliver results with minimal supervision.
What You Will Do:
- Provide technical design and architectural leadership to multiple teams and projects.
- Be responsible for overall system architecture; establish and evangelize best practices framework around web-based business application technologies.
- Ensure high-performance of applications and sites through optimal architecture and development of code and content assets while articulating best practices to developers.
- Work closely with our partner software development teams to ensure technology and approach consistency.
- Utilize the standards of scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, and manageability to design solutions that meet operational requirements.
- Provide a deep understanding of integration technologies and practices as well as the business acumen to develop overarching system designs.
- Design modifications to existing integrations while minimizing customization, design reusable components, and eliminate redundancy in designs throughout the team's environment.
- Investigate new technologies and techniques and research ongoing industry developments through a partnership with the platform engineering team.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Five years of experience building web applications in a leadership position.
- Three years of experience leading development teams and people management.
- Two years of experience designing complex distributed applications using a RESTful microservices architecture.
- Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
- Experience with technologies like React, Vue.js, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, RESTful services, relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL), cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Docker, etc.).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, product managers, and senior leaders.
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