Who we are:
Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios. We run every part of the players’ online experience, from logging in to matchmaking to climbing the leaderboards, for popular video game franchises such as Call of Duty, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders.
The work we do together every day impacts almost half a billion players around the world. We solve big company challenges with a small company feel. We are technology-driven with a culture of openness. This means collaborating to solve interesting challenges, enjoying the freedom to talk to anyone, and always feeling respected. We take the work seriously; ourselves, not so much.
What we do:
We are looking for a Technical Director to join the Platform department at Demonware. You’ll work closely with the teams across Demonware to drive cross-department initiatives to improve our ability to deliver games at scale.
Your responsibilities:
- You will guide and facilitate design and decision making around Demonware’s online services and tech stack.
- You will collaborate with other tech directors and leadership to map out and deliver company objectives and priorities for the year
- Keep a player first mindset when delivering solutions; the ability to put yourself in the shoes of our players is essential
- Solve hard problems
- Participate in all stages of development process on a cross-disciplinary team
- Teach & mentor across the department and the wider organisation
- Management of team leaders and individual contributors where necessary
Your Profile:
- 5+ years of experience in a similar technical leadership role
- A background in operations and automation, running services at large scale
- Experience in discovering and setting strategic technical direction
- Interest in analyzing requirements and making corresponding design decisions
- Interest to own the day-to-day fundamentals of engineering projects and steer their technical direction with minimal supervision
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent program
Bonus:
- Experience with problems of large scale, and handling millions of connections
- Experience in Python, MySQL or Cassandra
- Experience with load testing and performance optimization
- Good working knowledge of Kubernetes
- Interest in large scale services (up to millions of users)
- Experience as a scrum product owner desirable
- Ownership of initiatives from inception through deployment and sustainment
- Excellence in proactive, open-minded collaboration across teams
What Demonware Offers:
Relocation Support, generous paid vacation, RRSP matching program and top-tier medical, dental and life insurance coverage for you and your dependents and perks.