Tech Lead

Would you like to play with us

Whatwapp is a leading mobile game company in Italy with three major titles focusing on casual games. The company comprising around fifty diverse team members operates in English and supports hybrid work options (4 days per month in Milan). Whatwapp is transitioning from a startup to a scale-up aiming to expand globally and innovate within the gaming industry. We encourage a flat hierarchy allowing rapid idea execution and learning opportunities directly from our leaders with a commitment to the personal and professional growth of our employees.

Your quests will be to:

• Lead the technical development of one of the most important card games in France.
• Translate complex features into technical requirements development efforts and execution timelines.
• Guide the team in defining specific tasks and estimating the effort to realise the roadmap projects. Reviewing task statuses and helping to remove roadblocks.
• Coordinate with server developers to ensure the server runs smoothly while maintaining and optimizing existing and new features.
• Take an active part in designing architecting implementing and testing features and iterations.
• Own the design architecture development pipeline and release process from a technical point of view while maintaining alignment with the roadmap owner.
• Work on your tasks ensuring the respect of the deadlines of the team warning in case of delays/advances and ensuring their closure in agreement with the producer.
• Be able to drive the team and share experience and knowledge with more junior team members.

To start playing you will need: Additional plus

• Senior-level experience with Unity3d preferably on products or apps with a life cycle of continuous development and/or on a large legacy codebase.
• Experience with coordinating other developers (Task orchestration & integration Release planning and Task assignation).
• Experience and ability to interact and/or coordinate the server side even without writing code.
• Code review to find bottlenecks help to improve the quality of the codebase and help the devs to deepen their knowledge
• Monitoring and management of the live releases.
• Architecture and optimization of the code base.
• Backwards compatibility & future proofing.
• Knowledge of:
  • Software Design Patterns
  • Unity testing.
• Experience with Docker.

Additional plus

• Knowledge of Golang and/or Typescript
• Experience with Nakama

The type of player you are:

• Hungry to succeed
• A careful and detailed planner
• Highly analytical
• Product-oriented mindset
• Great communication skills

Our company values:

• Use critical thinking: dont assume validate your gut feeling!
• Take ownership and make it happen!
• Love what you do and have fun doing it!
• Work on the problem not just the symptoms!
• Dont overcomplicate it keep it simple and effective!
• Share ideas to reduce bias and improve results!

Power-ups to have more fun

An innovative high-ownership and friendly work environment where you have the opportunity to grow and try new approaches

An amazing office in the centre of Milan (Stazione Garibaldi) with a social area with a football table board games beer and coffee

Flexible employment options and working hours

Quarterly development talks and career coaching from a professional coach

English and Italian courses provided by native teachers

Learning budget to spend on anything for professional growth

The latest MacBook

Offsite team building events

Dont live in Milan Check out our work model
Building community and having a place to connect with each other is very important for us. We like not only to work together but to have time to get to know each other to celebrate and have fun. We also value peoples choice to work from anywhere thats why we have a very flexible hybrid model.
Our policy is 4 days straight per month at the office and we decide however were gonna go.
If you dont live in Italy we have two options: if you would like to relocate our company offers a relocation package to help you move to Milan; if you want to stay where you are we offer a benefit to help you with travel expenses and flexible working hours around your journey time.