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Technical Lead (Harbour)

Job Description

As a Technical Lead within Ubi MTL’s Harbour team, you ensure the scalability, stability, and continuous performance of a live, online web platform that supports all our Ubisoft games.

An expert back-end developer, you’re the technical reference for a group of programmers building the foundational features that make up the platform.

You steer the team towards creating a reliable digital distribution platform, plus produce high-quality code and navigate constraints to get there.

With a responsibility to help your team of programmers refine their skills, you coach and mentor them, empowering them to innovate and perform at their best.

Thanks to your expertise, credibility, and dependability, not only can developers on your project turn to you for information and direction, but so can others. You’re a go-to person for guidance and a trusted advisor for Ubisoft employees worldwide.


What you’ll do

• Define technical vision on the back-end and DevOps side of the platform + plan its technical roadmap.
• Regularly meet with your programming team to discuss progress; tackle setbacks; share updates; present features; give feedback; informatively and constructively explain the root causes of risks and issues; etc.
• Mentor and motivate programmers to develop their technical skills + equip them with what they need to work efficiently and achieve quality (tools, pipelines, etc.).
• Write elegant code + provide technical oversight by reviewing code and making technical validations.
• Build online services architecture + manage cloud infrastructure.
• Design, deploy, secure, and maintain a variety of reliable environments for the platform.
• Anticipate and assess complex, escalated issues + propose adapted solutions.
• Synch up with other technical leads to remove blockers, achieve consistency, etc.
• Communicate with interdependent teams on other projects to exchange information.
• Stay up to date on technological advancements and industry standards to define our best practices + share them with our studios.
  

Qualifications

What you bring

• An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• Around 7 years of programming experience + 2 years of technical leadership
• Mastery of a variety of programming languages (especially C#, JavaScript, C++, and WPF)
• An understanding of redundant and scalable architecture design, analysis, and debugging; code optimization; and task automation
• The ability to make informed, immediate decisions with minimal long-term impacts
• A strategic approach to problem-solving: you don’t just patch problems, you solve them so that they never happen again
• Excellent mentorship, interpersonal, and presentation skills
• A highly innovative and collaborative spirit
• Effective cross-departmental communication: you can easily communicate with all disciplines + break down complex information for various audiences
• A desire to share your knowledge to push the boundaries of technology & help others improve their skills

What to send our way

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience, and skills

Harbour: online solutions at Ubisoft
As Ubisoft’s online platform developer, Harbour helps bring high-quality connected experiences to millions of players worldwide. Working alongside production teams, we leverage state-of-the-art solutions to enable value-filled features in all our online games – throughout their development and while they’re live. With a view of Ubisoft’s entire digital ecosystem and a long-term approach to online gaming, we focus on finding the right solution for the right purpose. And if the solution we need doesn’t exist yet? That’s just an opportunity for us to create it.

About us

At Ubisoft Montreal, a preeminent developer of video games located in Montreal’s dynamic Mile-End neighbourhood since 1997, we offer a work environment unique in the industry for allowing you to build and cultivate games that are part of critically acclaimed, iconic AAA franchises of international repute.

When you join Ubi Montreal, you enter a community of passionate, extraordinary developers connected by their need to innovate, to be creative and to work with the latest technology. You’ll discover a world where employees enjoy constant career advancement, a supportive learning environment, and competitive compensation packages.

More than anything, at Ubi Montreal, you will regularly ship a variety of big, quality titles – Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six, Watch_Dogs, For Honor and… well we can’t disclose all our secrets just yet… – and work with some of the most talented people in the industry.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.