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Technical Architect - King SDK
This is the great opportunity to bring your strategic technical knowledge together with your playful mind and create the foundation of Kings successful games. We are looking for a world class Technical Architect to our King SDK team. You will be an absolute key player in a core technology team which develops the SDK that powers all of the King games, running on more than 200 million devices. The SDK is the single point of access to all of King’s infrastructure and ties in to both internal and external systems. There will be plenty of opportunities to tackle complex problems and work with new technology on multiple platforms as well as working with other superstars and in a really creative and inspiring environment. This is the place where you make heavy technology really cool.
Your role within our Kingdom
You will among other things:
• Be in charge of defining, agreeing on and implementing the technical roadmap for the SDK
• Articulate and drive key technical decisions, inside your team and with external stakeholders
• Be responsible for technical leadership for the SDK, making sure the SDK adopts the best-fit technology aligned with King’s overall technical strategy
• Champion, and coach the teams in using modern development practices: Code reviews, pair programming, clean code, test automation, refactoring and sustainable management of technical debt
• Work with the King technology stack in mind, collaborate with the other TDs on the greater good
• Bring industry knowledge of best practice to the teams to aid productivity and quality and evaluate new technologies and how they integrate into our evolving platform
• Understand, prioritize and surface technical concerns from the development teams
• Understand and be able to explain to non-technical people how the parts of King’s tech stack interact and what the implications of technical decisions will be

Skills to create thrills
Just as the heroes in our games you are brave and used to making technical decisions and taking on multiplex challenges. You are an exceptional team player who can easily navigate within the labyrinth with coaching skills combined with passion for software development and quality. A flexible and fluid environment where the job evolves over time makes you thrive.

• MS in Computer Science or equivalent technical education
• Long experience on software development and previous tech leadership experience
• A successful track record of development and architecture of Game related SDKs and Frameworks
• Understanding the domain of building software for other developers
• Solid C++ and mobile experience. We expect you to be working hands on with the teams on occasion to keep in touch with the code base
• Professional experience with leading projects from start to finish
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to navigate effectively in distributed team environments

A great saga needs all sorts of heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can’t expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

We’re Seriously Playful
Officially, we’re a leading entertainment company for the mobile world. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that’s not afraid to have fun. Every day at King, we mix intuition with logic, art with science and magic with mathematics to create the games the world loves to play. Together with our parent company Activision Blizzard, our mission is to bring moments of magic to everyday life. If you think this is something you can help us achieve, let’s talk.

We’re Seriously Playful
Officially, we’re a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that’s not afraid to have fun. Every day at King, we mix intuition with logic, art with science and magic with mathematics to create the games the world loves to play. Together with our parent company Activision Blizzard, our mission is to bring moments of magic to everyday life. If you think this is something you can help us achieve, let’s talk.

Detta är en jobbannons med titeln "Technical Architect - King SDK" hos företaget People Experience AB och publicerades på webbjobb.io den 23 maj 2018 klockan 00:00.

Hur du söker jobbet

Ansökan sker via e-post till [email protected]. Vänligen använd rubriken/referensen "Technical Architect".

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