Company Summary
Product Madness is a Global Powerhouse where the greatest mobile games and experiences are crafted by world-class talent. A top-grossing leader in free-to-play mobile games, we have more than 800 team members working across seven global talent hubs including London (headquarters), USA, Canada, Spain, Poland, and Ukraine. With remarkable hit games including Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino, Lighting Link, and Big Fish Casino, we boast more than 50 million active users and 400 million downloads and counting. We are mad about games and the way they bring people together, and that passion and culture is what brings us together as a studio, connects us with our partners we collaborate with, and is what links us to our sister studios across the world. Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital game's division of Pixel United.
Job Posting Title: Technical Director
Summary: We are looking for a passionate director of client-side development for our engineering teams in London, who will report to the VP of Technology and work alongside a senior technology leadership team. The role operates in close collaboration with the product organization to drive engineering excellence and support high performance using agile and lean methodologies. Your teams are responsible for expanding existing functionality and developing new exciting features using Unity for mobile and in HTML5 using PlayCanvas/PixiJS for Facebook deployment. Day to day, you will manage and coach the currently 4 team leads, as well as owning and executing on business strategic goals, in collaboration with the rest of the technical organization.
You will also have a dotted reporting line to a team in Lviv, Ukraine to support HTML5 development there for live ops events. This is a strategic role that will suit an empathetic technology leader, who can focus on driving a candid feedback culture, developing great people, and cross-team practices. Our tech stack is a complex setup with Unity/C# and integrated C++ game content for mobile and HTML5/PixiJS for web against a Ruby on Rails backend. Our development support runs on Jenkins for CI, Applivery, Git for source control, Jira/Atlassian + SmartSheets for project management.
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 with Unity or C# based clients utilized in a mobile and web environment.Experience with managing multiple teams, and have successfully solved many of the tough organizational challenges that follow.
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