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Technical Director, Frontend
4 years ago
Who We Are:
Take-Two develops and publishes some of the biggest games in the world through our wholly owned Rockstar Games, 2K and our new Private Division labels. Some of our biggest titles include the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, NBA 2K, Bioshock, Civilization, and Kerbal Space Program.
The Direct to Consumer team is a startup within Take-Two. We’re creating a commerce and distribution platform for Take-Two’s games labels. Our team is based in downtown San Francisco, a short walk from the ballpark, next to Caltrain and close to BART.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the technical frontend experience for our D2C platform and services, including their expression in a desktop application, on mobile, through websites, and on console.
- Partner closely with central design team to create a scalable, highly performant design system & library that can be extended across multiple franchises and services.
- Plan, estimate, and analyze requirements with product owners, designers and developers.
- Manage a team of engineers, mentoring and providing coding help and technical guidance to team members.
- Help define and track key performance and quality metrics to ensure that there is no unwanted drift from targets.
- Partner with studio teams at various levels of technical and design maturity to implement interfaces that align with their brands.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of engineering experience.
- Deep experience building scaled, performant web applications.
- 3+ years of recent experience with frontend development using JavaScript and ideally React.
- Experience with C / C++ a big plus.
- Experience with continuous delivery and agile development, including experimentation frameworks and feature flags.
- BA / MS degree in computer science or a related field.
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