Studio Technical Director

Requisition Number: 153978

Position Title: Technical Director II

External Description:

What a Studio Technical Director does within Pogo:

 

As a Studio Technical Director, your primary responsibility will be to lead a team of engineers, across various locations, in design, architecting, building and operating Pogo platform, HTML5 games on Pogo platform and metagame of Pogo.  Most of your time will be spent working with and leading the team in the design and execution of new features, while continually optimizing performance, robustness, and scalability of the service. You will also spend time working with the cross functional team of product managers, development directors, creative team and operations to contribute to the definition of Pogo’s vision and strategy.   As a people manager you will be responsible for helping shape people’s careers and mentor the team in growing and reaching their full potential. Engineering leads at EA are expected to live by EA’s values: Be Human First, Play as One, Get it Done, Aim & Inspire, Listen & Improve.

 

Responsibilities:

• Build a world class online services team. Grow and guide your team members.
• Still be close to technology – frameworks, languages, able to review & provide feedback on design, code and recommend technologies for solutions
• Lead the technical design and architecture of Pogo service including major components of our large scale distributed HTTP based backend service, creating new features and updating existing ones
• Provide guidance to the game teams via best practices, policies and standards while helping define the contract between games and Pogo platform (SDK for internal and external game developers).
• Working with cross functional Pogo Leadership Team to define the roadmap of Pogo and delivering on their highest priority features and requirements.
• Collaborate with external game developers and EA’s central services.
• Continuously devise and improve on efficient, performant and reliable ways to develop, test and support a live service.
• Set technical direction to innovate and improve on legacy systems.
• Manage local and remote teams (in Shanghai).

 

Required Skills / Experience

• Technical leadership, and/or mentoring experience.
• Superb ability to take high level direction, work through ambiguity and drive to execution in a live service model
• Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process, preferably
• Deep knowledge of object oriented software (preferably in Java)
• Extensive experience working on online services (HTTP via REST) at Internet consumer scale
• Strong understanding of DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Agile development
• Experience with cross-platform web(preferably)/native applications catering to desktop, mobile and tablet.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating on large distributed applications. You understand how to design service monitoring and how to load test properly.
• Experience with game development
• Experience working with and managing remote teams
• Superb communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• 12+ of relevant software development
• 6+ or more years’ experience managing and leading teams of engineers.

 

Nice to have Skills:

• Experience building on Amazon Web Services
• Experience with leading web client technologies – Single page architecture and  progressive web apps
• Experience with mobile development, familiarity with best practices
• Understanding of browser as platform.
• Use of technologies such as memcached or Redis, queuing, and NoSQL in production systems helps as does deployment automation experience, e.g. Terraform.
• Domain experience in publishing games, social gaming experience

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.는 세계를 선도하는 인터랙티브 엔터테인먼트 소프트웨어 기업입니다. EA는 인터넷 콘솔, 개인용 컴퓨터, 휴대전화, 태블릿용 게임과 콘텐츠 및 온라인 서비스를 제공합니다.

EEOText: EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부, 또는 법으로 금지된 기타 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. 또한, 해당 직책에 합당한 능력을 갖추고 있다면 범죄 기록이 있는 지원자도 관련 법률을 준수하는 방식으로 채용 여부를 고려합니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.

Days Open: 67

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 등의 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.