Who we are:

Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios. We run every part of the players’ online experience, from logging in to matchmaking to climbing the leaderboards, for popular video game franchises such as Call of Duty, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders.  

The work we do together every day impacts almost half a billion players around the world. We solve big company challenges with a small company feel. We are technology-driven with a culture of openness. This means collaborating to solve interesting challenges, enjoying the freedom to talk to anyone, and always feeling respected. We take the work seriously; ourselves, not so much.  

What we do:

We're looking for a Technical Team Lead to join the Citadel team who is responsible for getting players into some of the biggest games on earth. Our services include Accounts and Identity management and Privacy tooling.  Our customers are the online engineers at the Activision game studios working on titles such as  Call of Duty and our colleagues in Marketing and Data Services. 

Your responsibilities:

Design and build highly-scalable services using open source technologies to enable crucial player to player interactions

You will work on improving and extending the Demonware services for Accounts and Identity management and Privacy tooling.

You will contribute to our technical direction and standards with engineers on the team and across Demonware

You will design and implement features, run services and help our game studios integrate features into current and future games

This is a DevOps role that includes maintaining and supporting the live services that you develop.

You will guide and facilitate design and decision making around Demonware’s online services and tech stack

You will collaborate with the project manager to mapout and deliver team objectives and priorities for the year based on company goals and product roadmap

You will organize and coordinate the work of the team to effectively work on features together and with other teams in Demonware

You will support the team to  own, operate and support the services and features they develop

You will provide technical mentorship to team members through software engineering best practices

Bonus:

Experience with problems of large scale, and handling millions of connections 

Experience with continuous integration and agile methodologies

Experience with Linux/Unix

Interest in travel to assist on-site integration at game studios and able to accommodate a flexible work schedule that includes being on-call