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Technical Director, Back-end
4 years ago
Who We Are
Take-Two develops and publishes some of the world’s biggest games. Our Rockstar label creates Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, two of the most critically acclaimed gaming franchises in history. Our 2K label creates games like NBA 2K, WWE 2K, Bioshock, Borderlands, Evolve, XCOM and the beloved Sid Meier’s Civilization. Our Private Division label publishes Kerbal Space Program and will publish upcoming titles with Obsidian Entertainment, Panache Digital Games and more.
Take 2 Direct to Consumer
The Direct to Consumer team is a (well-funded) startup within Take-Two. We’re launching a San Francisco office while creating a culture that enables remote work. We’re building a commerce and distribution platform for our game labels. We’re creating this from the ground up to support our studios. Our team is small and agile – we deploy to production constantly. We user test every week and focus on automation. We believe in giving our studios the flexibility they need to create the world’s greatest games, so we plan to offer UI, SDK, and GraphQL interfaces for our services. We focus on working software over Powerpoint!
Key Responsibilities
- Define and architect back-end services for our gaming platform with a microservice architecture, high availability API and services layer.
- Own distributed, real time systems that serve more than a million concurrent gamers.
- Support our publishing teams by creating tools and services that keep our games secure and prevent leaks.
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers, supporting their career and technical development.
- Create a culture obsessed with performance and gamer experience.
- Own our services layer, ensuring high up-time and promptly resolving service issues.
- Support multiple titles, with various levels of technical maturity, in integrating our services.
- Work with product management, design, and other technology teams to develop a long-term roadmap.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of engineering experience.
- 5+ years of experience with Java, Go, Python, or another back end language.
- Deep experience building scaled, performant web applications.
- Experience with full cycle game development is a huge plus.
- Experience with AWS or Google Cloud.
- BA / MS degree in computer science or a related field.
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