Software Engineering Director

Company Summary


Product Madness is one of the world's largest mobile game studios, with a global presence. Founded in 2007, were today a top-grossing leader in social casino mobile games that are crafted with passion and commitment. Our ambition is to entertain millions of players around the world with our remarkable titles that include Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino, Lighting Link and FaFaFa Gold.

We are Mad about games and the way they bring people together, and that passion and culture is what holds us together as a studio, connects us with the partners we collaborate with, and is what links us to our sister studios across the world.

Job Posting Title

Software Engineering Director

Summary

We are looking for a passionate hands-off software development director that can oversee remote full stack developers in primary eastern europe and a small team of native mobile client developers in London. Your role is to drive engineering excellence for a local engineering team as well as larger teams in Eastern Europe to support high performance using agile and lean methodologies.

Your teams are responsible for building and maintaining central services and platforms like customer support portal, email campaigns, game integration SDK for all our games to use the central services, 3rd party integrations to e.g. Appsflyer, Facebook, Apple as well as internal data integrations between the games and user acquisition and data science.

What You'll Do







Essential:






Experience working closely with Product Owners, Quality Assurance, Platform teams, Server teams and other leaders to ensure the department is delivering world-class technology.

Experience advocating and promoting modern, agile software development practices.

Experience in native mobile SDK development using C#, ObjC/Swift, or Java/Kotlin

Experience with full stack web environments developed in Ruby on Rails and similar technology stacks

Experience with development using cloud based technologies a big plus

GCP experiences a big plus or alternatively other cloud environments.

Experience with managing multiple teams, and have successfully solved many of the tough organizational challenges that follow.

Experience of influencing across team & wider teams

Experience working in high volume releases environments





Nice to Have:






Foster the development of direct reports by providing coaching & setting short-term & long-term stretch goals to ensure employee growth.

Work with leaders and HR teams to attract, onboard, and retain diverse top talent.

Ability to push standardization across teams and optimize workflows in collaboration with project management.

Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.

A platform/service development background as an engineer.

Knowledge of good engineering practices and code architecture.

Experience in coaching and growing high-performing engineers.

Benefit but not a requirement to speak or write Russian


What We're Looking For


What You'll Do


This is a role that will suit an empathetic technology leader, who can focus on driving a candid feedback culture, mentor and coach engineers and have a focus on great people and cross-team practices.

The mobile SDKs provide support for iOS and Android platforms, and are developed in ObjC, Swift, Java and Kotlin, with a C# bridge for integration with Unity. A great emphasis is placed on CI, employing xUnit tools for testing, with Gradle for build orchestration on Jenkins.

The main tech stack is currently web based against a Ruby on Rails backend running on physical machines. We will be moving to cloud based microservices and refreshing our technologies over the next years with a move to a mixed technology stack to be defined. Our development support runs on Jenkins for CI, Applivery, Artifactory, Git for source control, and Jira/Atlassian for project management.


Why

Product Madness

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Product Madness is so much more than just a Pool table and a foosball game.

We believe in an honest and transparent approach with our teammates. Company wide weekly Town Halls, All Hands and strategy meetings are just a few ways in which we encourage an open and honest path to achieving complete transparency.

Despite a pandemic, there isnt a day where we dont feel connected to one another.
With frequent events, workshops, giveaways, slack coffee and donut sessions we have definitely brought on our office culture to this new virtual world of zoom calls.

We also try to cater for all our staffs needs be that a freshly brewed cappuccino made by our professional barista in our free coffee shop or by providing a bountiful supply of tasty snacks to keep us refueled and buzzing.

We love to organise plenty of social get-togethers and action-packed activity days, be it slipping inside an inflatable bumper ball for a mad session of football zorbing or throwing caution to the wind and traversing giddy treetop rope courses at Go Ape. On top of these team-building activities, our lunch and learn workshops, not to mention the lavish Christmas and summer parties, foster that work hard, play hard mantra. Our offices are based in the heart of the metropolises of London and Lviv, surrounded by an abundance of diversity and inspiration to keep those ideas flowing.



Our Values



People First

We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.



MAD for More

Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the worlds best games company.



Champion Together

We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.



Globally Inclusive

We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.



Customer Focused

We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.
Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!