Technical Lead – OnlineBackend (March of Giants)
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13 hours ago
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Job Summary
The person in this role serves as the reference point for all technological matters related to their specialty. They are a technical specialist responsible for analyzing issues in their area of expertise (technical specialty or game console) accountable for technological decisions and for the performance of all systems within their domain. They continue to write code define best practices and provide mentorship within the team.
Specialty: Online / Backend (Games)
Within the online services of a multiplayer game (AAA/GAAS) the Technical Lead designs backend architectures ensures resilience scalability and operability and implements observability tools and CI/CD practices to deliver a smooth and reliable gameplay experience.
General responsibilities
- Manage technical mandates assigned by the IT Project Lead (CPI) the Team Lead (TL) or the Technical Architect.
- Act as a reference for all technical matters related to their specialty.
- Program at a senior level and take ownership of the highestrisk elements within their domain.
- Suggest improvements and make technology decisions aligned with the project vision.
- Regularly measure performance and optimize systems as needed.
- Solve complex technical problems related to their specialty.
- Provide technical mentorship (knowledge sharing best practices).
- Advise the Architect and/or CPI and propose corrective actions to meet objectives.
- Collaborate with technical directors from other disciplines (design art animation audio etc.).
- Participate in performance reviews alongside the CPI.
- Perform any other related tasks.
Online/Backend-specific responsibilities
- Design architect and implement backend services enabling player connectivity and interaction ensuring resilience scalability and security.
- Gather requirements from multiple teams (design gameplay online data ops) and iterate on key features: authentication matchmaking sessions progression economy telemetry etc.
- Work closely with peers to ensure reliability performance and maintainability of the online ecosystem.
- Build and enhance observability: metrics tracing logging alerting SLO/SLI health and capacity dashboards.
- Implement and evolve CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration delivery and deployment of online services.
- Define API standards (REST/gRPC) database modeling versioning strategies and live service compatibility.
- Contribute to live operations readiness and support (GAAS): load testing performance/failover testing runbooks incident response.
Qualifications :
Soft skills
- Strong analytical and problemsolving abilities.
- Ability to understand and anticipate stakeholder needs; curiosity and exploration mindset.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate and influence.
- Autonomy initiative resultsfocused mindset.
- Attention to detail rigor adaptability.
- Ability to manage change ambiguity and shifting priorities.
Education
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent.
Relevant experience
- Minimum 3 years of programming experience on a specific console or technical specialty (or equivalent).
- Preferred for senior Online/Backend profiles:
- 5 years developing backend systems and features for AAA/GAAS online games.
- Demonstrated experience in technical leadership mentorship and technology decisionmaking.
Technical skills
Required / strongly preferred
- REST API design relational and/or NoSQL database design.
- AWS (or equivalent cloud): compute storage networking IAM observability.
- CI/CD infrastructure as code automated testing progressive deployments (canary / bluegreen).
- Observability: instrumentation metrics logging tracing alerting SLO/SLI.
- Go programming (strongly preferred) or equivalent modern backend experience.
- C.
Assets
- Knowledge of Unreal Engine 5 (or similar engines) and online integrations.
- Experience with live operations (GAAS) incident management capacity & performance optimization.
- Knowledge of gameplay/online systems: matchmaking sessions parties progression economy anticheat telemetry etc.
Languages
- Proficiency in French and English spoken and written (collaboration with multiregion teams and partners).
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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About Company
Opened in October 2011, Ubisoft Abu Dhabi is one of the first major video game studios based in the UAE capital and is focusing on developing and bringing to market successful mobile games for a worldwide audience. This position is based in the vibrant expat city of Abu Dhabi, the c ... View more
