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The Challenge Ahead

The Ghost team in Gothenburg is looking for a Lead Online Engineer to join our team and work on the next Need for Speed title. The Lead Online Engineer is responsible for leading the team that creates the features that are the connective tissue within our game.

What a Lead Online Engineer does at EA:

This is a challenging role that may demand knowledge from multiple disciplines. We are looking for a dedicated, experienced Lead Online Engineer who will be responsible for delivering the major online components of our game by leading a team of online engineers.

The Online Lead Engineer must have the ability to drive focus and motivation within the Online team and ensure the correct technical decisions are being made for the desired design and player experience.

The successful engineer should know about the different network topologies used in gaming, be able to write intelligent and efficient systems to handle limited bandwidth and poor network conditions, have architecture skills, and understand the available network protocols used for communication.

The engineer should also have great knowledge of 1st Party Online systems as well as 1st Party requirements for both Microsoft and Sony and understand what´s needed to integrate these systems and requirements into a AAA game. Even though this role is in the online domain, the successful engineer must understand and be able to contribute to other areas of the game including Front End and gameplay systems in order to work effectively as Lead Engineer with a variety of stakeholders.

Online Lead Requirements:

Manage and provide guidance to a team of engineers across multiple levels of expertise
Be able to partner and communicate with team leads, technical directors, and the product owner to deliver online solutions
Review technical designs from engineers for quality and completeness
Work with the technical director to provide technical expertise, direction, and lead planning initiatives
Work closely with product owner on roadmap and feature requirements for Online
Drive technical excellence within the team and report to key stakeholders the status of Online

The next great Lead Online Engineer also needs:

3+ years of software engineering experience in the games industry
Experience leading a team of 3-5 engineers
Experience shipping an online AAA game working directly within online systems such as Matchmaking, Invites, VOIP, servers and core gaming network topologies
Extensive demonstrable games industry experience
Excellent C++ architecting and engineering skills
Willingness and openness to learn new skills and ramp up quickly
Experience with Sony and Microsoft online system (Invites, Voip, Online Store)
Understanding of client/server architectures
Able to communicate with technical and non-technical team members
Able to own features and put together technical designs and software estimates
Experience of scalable distributed systems, including performance & storage considerations
Self-motivated with a strong sense of quality
Strong language skills - excellent spoken and written English
Good understanding of databases and efficient data storage
Familiar with python, ruby, perl or similar scripting languages

Detta är en jobbannons med titeln "Lead Online Engineer" hos företaget Ea digital illusions ce ab och publicerades på webbjobb.io den 5 maj 2015 klockan 16:23.

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