Principal Software Engineer / SSE

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Principal Software Engineer / SSE
San Francisco based Game Development Company
Principal Software Engineer / SSE

at San Francisco based Game Development Company
Agency job
3
\- 15 yrs
₹40L - ₹80L / yr (ESOP available)
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
Skills
Python
C++
Mobile App Development
Fullstack Developer
Android Development
iOS App Development
Javascript
SQL
Object Oriented Programming (OOPs)
My Client's India is its largest studio outside USA with 400+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of the biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.
The India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expect continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design of large scale applications and features & enhancements which reaches millions of players. You should be passionate about players, performance, scalability and holds a very high bar for quality of the game.

Responsibilities
– Work with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
– Owns technical roadmap, design and review for end-to-end games, ensure design quality and integrity
– Modernizing the tech stack
– Bring tech innovations in the game which will help in growth of the games
– Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements
– Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
– Lead and Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.
– Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.
– Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.
– Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.
Required Skills
– Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
– A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development, mobile, desktop or web application development with hands on coding experience covering full stack
– Experience coding in C#, C++, Python, Javascript and SQL
– Working knowledge of mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
– A proven foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPS and software design
– Strong problem solving and debugging skills
– Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Desired Skills
– Experience with mobile development – Android/iOS/Native OR on game engines such as Cocos-2D, Unity or other.
– Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELBs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, terraform etc)
– Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting and server provisioning
– Familiarity with micro service architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
– Experience with development tools & integrated build systems: XCode, IntelliJ, Git/Jenkins
– Experience of driving activities, review process to ensure software and product quality.
– Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to smite a challenge—and if a conventional solution does not exist, then innovate as necessary.
What we offer you:
– Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
– Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and  RSUs
– Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
– Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
– Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
– Well stocked pantry
– Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
– Employee Assistance Programs
– Active Employee Resource Groups – Women
– Frequent employee events
– Additional leave options for most employees
– Flexible working hours on many teams
– Casual dress every single day
– Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!
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