Software Development Manager, Amazon Games

Description

Welcome to Amazon Games Bucharest! Joining the ranks of the existing development teams in Orange County, Montreal, San Diego and Seattle, we're excited to expand Amazon Games' commitment to creating and publishing incredible games, and we're on the lookout for talented folks to join us as we grow.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager who is as excited about games as we are. In this role, you will deliver a technical mandate on an AAA multiplayer online battle arena game title built on Unreal 5. You will assess the ability of new technologies to deliver and drive innovation, reliability, performance and productivity gains. It's an opportunity to work on the latest technologies and build a truly the next generation experience for our players.

Key job responsibilities
o Lead and manage a team of Software Engineers fostering career growth and strong team culture
o Contribute ideas to product roadmap and execute technical strategy (set by Production leadership) in collaboration with Product Managers, Designers and Engineering teams.
o Drive innovation, reliability, durability, maintainability, performance and productivity on your technical mandate
o Regularly dive into architecture, code, test plans, project plans, deployments, and operations to drive excellence in your team and project

About the team
At Amazon Games, our ambition is to create bold new experiences that foster community in and around our games. Our team of game industry veterans is developing and publishing live service AAA multiplayer games and developing original IPs, including New World: Aeternum and an upcoming title based on The Lord of the Rings, with our studios and teams in Seattle, Orange County, San Diego, Montreal, and Bucharest. Amazon Games also publishes best-in-class games in close collaboration with developers, leading with Lost Ark from Smilegate RPG, THRONE AND LIBERTY from NCSOFT, and King of Meat from Glowmade, as well as the next major entry in the Tomb Raider series from Crystal Dynamics.

Basic qualifications

- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience in engineering team management
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops)
- Excellent C++ skills and knowledge of software programming principles
- Significant non-internship professional software development experience -
- Extensive non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Preferred qualifications

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Interest in reliability, durability, maintainability, performance and automation
- Experience in profiling, optimising and debugging complex systems within a large code base
- Ability to perform programming tasks as required to support the team
- Knowledge of Unreal Engine an asset (but not required)

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