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Principal Software Engineer / SSE
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Principal Software Engineer / SSE
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Principal Software Engineer / SSE

at San Francisco based Game Development Company

Agency job
via Qrata
3 - 15 yrs
₹40L - ₹80L / yr (ESOP available)
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
Skills
skill iconPython
skill iconC++
Mobile App Development
Fullstack Developer
skill iconAndroid Development
skill iconiOS App Development
skill iconJavascript
SQL
Object Oriented Programming (OOPs)

My Client's India is its largest studio outside USA with 400+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of the biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expect continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.


As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design of large scale applications and features & enhancements which reaches millions of players. You should be passionate about players, performance, scalability and holds a very high bar for quality of the game.


Responsibilities

  • Work with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
  • Owns technical roadmap, design and review for end-to-end games, ensure design quality and integrity
  • Modernizing the tech stack
  • Bring tech innovations in the game which will help in growth of the games
  • Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements
  • Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
  • Lead and Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.
  • Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.
  • Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.
  • Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.

Required Skills

  • Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
  • A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development, mobile, desktop or web application development with hands on coding experience covering full stack
  • Experience coding in C#, C++, Python, Javascript and SQL
  • Working knowledge of mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
  • A proven foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPS and software design
  • Strong problem solving and debugging skills
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Desired Skills

  • Experience with mobile development – Android/iOS/Native OR on game engines such as Cocos-2D, Unity or other.
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELBs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, terraform etc)
  • Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting and server provisioning
  • Familiarity with micro service architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
  • Experience with development tools & integrated build systems: XCode, IntelliJ, Git/Jenkins
  • Experience of driving activities, review process to ensure software and product quality.
  • Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to smite a challenge—and if a conventional solution does not exist, then innovate as necessary.

What we offer you:

  • Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
  • Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and  RSUs
  • Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
  • Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
  • Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
  • Well stocked pantry
  • Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
  • Employee Assistance Programs
  • Active Employee Resource Groups – Women 
  • Frequent employee events
  • Additional leave options for most employees
  • Flexible working hours on many teams
  • Casual dress every single day
  • Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!
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