Technical Director (Online Services)

Created by Monsters. Built for gamers.™

TLM, an Endava company, is a world-class video game company focused on development for some of the biggest games in the industry. Our mission is to break down barriers in the video game industry and make game tech available to all game developers regardless of size.

We are looking for good humans with incredible talent to make great games.

Position Summary: Technical Director (Online Services)

• 100% Remote position & other cool benefits .
• Working with an international team on AAA games in a multi-engine studio (Frostbite, Unreal, CryEngine).
• Developing engine systems as well as improving workflows for our development teams on platforms including PC and consoles.
• Guiding online development across multiple genres (FPS, MMO, Sports, etc.), platforms (Steam, EGS, Playstation, Xbox) and cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Being part of a groundbreaking global game developer and publisher, with a permanently remote team.
• Facilitating communication between clients, internal teams/management, and individual contributors.
• Competitive salary, excellent benefits, and stock options available for full-time employees.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of dedicated engineers, creating and supporting online/backend game services
• Expertise in multiple game engines, backend game architectures (P2P, dedicated servers, authentication, entitlements, etc.), and how they relate to system design
• Understanding the differences and similarities between supported game platforms (Steam, EGS, Playstation, Xbox, etc.)
• Driving ongoing performance evaluation and optimization on supported game platforms for both customer projects as well as TLM’s internal tech.
• Working closely with other team leads as well as customers on technical goals, features and development.
• As a leader, ensuring that code quality, reusability and documentation are always prioritized.
• Owning the customer facing relationship for your engineering team.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of game development experience, including recent generation consoles
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 3+ shipped AAA titles, with at least 2 as a lead/senior/TD
• Strong understanding of C/C++, performance analysis, optimization and debugging
• Background with parallel programming and multi-threaded engine systems.
• Comprehensive understanding of PC and console architecture, memory systems and best practices for cross-platform game development.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical teams
• Experience with technical design documentation

Desired Qualifications

• Familiarity with current and next generation console SDKs and PC store fronts (eg. Steam, Epic, etc).
• Expertise in game networking and architecture
• Shipped and maintained an online multiplayer game.

*Because our company is international with a variety of first languages among management, please submit an English resume along with your application.

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