Backend Tech Lead

Paradox Interactive AB (publ) / Datajobb / Stockholm
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Paradox Interactive and the Central Tech and Services are now looking to hire a Backend Tech Lead to work in a dynamic, supportive, playful and exciting environment. You will work closely with relevant stakeholders to ensure that our game services support the vision of "Building bigger and better games more efficiently" while also meeting the specific feature and development needs of the Grand Strategy Game Studios.

You will collaborate with operational staff, other programmers, Product Owners, and more in order to create services which enhance the player experience within the Paradox eco-system. This role comes with a lot of responsibility; you will be accountable for technical aspects of the service design and backend service development.

The Backend Tech Lead is responsible for the technical quality and stability of the ecosystem backend features. As a part of the Project Leadership you are responsible for producing a technical vision and ensuring that the team can release a product with high technical standards. As Lead Developer, you are responsible for ensuring that the team is delivering to a high-standard by coaching the other developers as well as having a strategy for keeping tech debt to a minimum. Outside of these duties, you will also spend some time working as a developer on the project - writing code and performing code reviews.
Technical Leadership Responsibilities
Working closely with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team
Designing, building and configuring applications to meet security demands, business process and application requirements
Directing the development team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications
Balance technical decisions in the project leadership team, informing and supporting the team to make good decisions for upcoming systems and features.
Flag technical risks within the project with the Technical Director and provide alternative plans for mitigation.
Produce Technical Design Documentation for upcoming projects / expansions / systems.
Has a good understanding of the project's tech debt and code quality and has a technical vision for how to improve on it over time.
Identifies where there's a need for game specific tools or other improvements that will make programming in the code base more efficient or make other disciplines less dependent on tech.

Lead Developer Responsibilities
Responsible for the overall quality of the team - ensuring that the code enables and empowers high developer efficiency, regardless of seniority level.

Work closely with the Programmer Managers and to provide professional development feedback for the programmers on your team. Your feedback is a necessary part of the performance evaluation process for the developers on your team.

Spend time on system architecture to manage security vulnerabilities and developing small features and project / performance improvements.

Support other Tech Leads as required and support/run knowledge sharing initiatives for other Tech Leads.

Required Qualifications
Ability to design and document distributed, scalable, resilient, high-performing and secure backend systems

Have good knowledge of system administration and operations

Good understanding of system security and security management in backend systems

Understanding of continuous integration and delivery methods

Familiar with modern system architecture models

Used to work with Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), data engineering and analytics

You have at least 5 years of professional experience in backend systems, at least 2 of those in the games industry

You are comfortable in English, both written and spoken

We believe it is very important that you are able to take ownership and estimate your own time. We think you are good at cooperating with new groups of people but you must also be able to independently design/redesign major parts of the backend systems. As a person you are positive, dedicated, responsible, and love a challenge. An interest in strategy games and history, and in particular the Grand Strategy games from Paradox, will be considered a plus.

Så ansöker du
Sista dag att ansöka är 2023-10-23
E-post: talent-acquisition@paradoxinteractive.com

Omfattning
Detta är ett heltidsjobb.

Arbetsgivare
Paradox Interactive AB (publ) (org.nr 556667-4759)
Magnus Ladulåsgatan 4 (visa karta)
118 66  STOCKHOLM

Arbetsplats
Paradox Interactive AB

Jobbnummer
8186407

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