Technical Lead

3 weeks ago


Montréal, Canada People Can Fly Full time

Company Description

People Can Fly is one of the leading independent AAA games development studios with an international team of hundreds of talented individuals working from offices located in Poland, UK, US, and Canada, and from all over the world thanks to our remote work programs.

Founded in 2002, we made our mark on the shooter genre with titles such as Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and Outriders. We are one of the most experienced Unreal Engine studios in the industry and we are expanding it with in-house solutions called PCF Framework.

Our creative teams are currently working on several exciting titles: Gemini is our new project being developed with Square Enix; Bifrost, Victoria and Dagger are projects we're growing in the self-publishing model. We also have one project in the concept phase - Red; as well as two projects in VR technology - Green Hell VR and Thunder - a new project based on one of the IPs from the Group’s portfolio.

With over 20 years of experience, PCF sets out to explore new horizons. We aim to combine our expertise with creativity of the best and most forward-thinking talents in the industry to work together on the new generation of action games for the global gaming community.

**Job Description**:
As the Technical Lead, PCF Online Services you will manage a team of backend and frontend engineers creating new custom services and supporting existing online backend services for our games. These would include services such as game server orchestration, user account management, authentication, player inventory, cross-platform squad/lobby, running events, cross-platform friends lists / clans, matchmaking, in-game economy, dynamic game tuning, voice chat and many others.

You have a keen eye for code quality and you can provide effective feedback to other team members on their engineering work. You take pride in the overall outcome and quality of your team’s work and are there at every step to make the best outcomes happen. You strive for transparency and clarity with your team and are able to bring the needs of the business together in a strong engineering culture.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop, maintain, and improve backend services to support our online games across various platforms
- Own technical design and manage a team of engineers driving the implementation of robust, highly scalable online solutions
- Set up, maintain and optimize best practices, and continuously level up the team and organization
- Lead the evaluation and selection of the appropriate technology platforms, frameworks and deployment architectures for each given problem to solve
- Evaluate and recommend tools and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform
- Collaborate with game development teams, quality assurance and end users to architect and build cutting-edge server-side software solutions as well as ensuring quality integrations of our backend services into those titles
- Collaborate with the product and project managers to map out and deliver team objectives and priorities for the year based on company goals and product roadmap
- You will spend less time writing code. Drawing from your ample experience building highly scalable backend systems you will drive the technical direction of our shared backend services, and be a technical leader and a sounding board to members of your technical team
- Identify and solve cross cutting technical issues and team issues to achieve business goals
- Identify and proactively tackle technical debt through cost/benefit analytics for eliminating debt and suggested timelines for how to prioritize it
- Responsible for your team’s productivity and impact
- Scale testing and performance tuning of the entire stack
- Ensuring quality, predictability and reliability by setting up, maintaining and optimizing best practices, and continuously leveling up the team and organization

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, working on cross-functional teams
- 5+ years of experience managing high performing backend teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with developing back-end services and related concepts such as Service SLAs, up-time, scalability, etc.
- A thorough understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservice development and operational best practices in the cloud
- Hands on expertise with Kubernetes container platforms in cloud-native environments
- Knowledge of Terraform or similar architecture as code solutions
- Strong communication skills across a variety of disciplines including with product, engineering, stakeholders, and QA
- Experience in working with cloud-based architectures and AWS specifically;
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL stores (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, etc)

Additional Information
**What we offer**

**Canada**
- Benefit package 100% paid by PCF. Insurance company reimburses



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