Director of Engineering

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Job Posting Title
Director of Engineering
Summary
Big Fish Games is a player-centric game publisher that has been influential to the game development world over the last 20 years. Distinguished by its value-driven, collaborative, and inclusive culture, Big Fish continues to innovate the game experience, build community and connections through games, and craft meaningful games played by millions.
Big Fish has an extensive portfolio of popular casual games across genres including EverMerge, Big Fish Casino, JMS, Gummy Drop, Cooking Craze, Fairway Solitaire. Big Fish is dedicated to delivering amazing experiences for players to connect, compete and discover play, anywhere and on any device.
Big Fish is part of Aristocrat Leisure Limited.
The engineering organization spans many specialties including Unity Development, cloud hosted backends, CI/CD publishing pipelines, and content tooling and pipelines. We are passionate about gaming and looking for someone who shares that passion.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and scale an engineering team to ship an innovative new Social Casino title to market. The engineering organization spans many specialties from Unity Development, cloud hosted backends, CI/CD publishing pipelines, and slots development.
Responsibilities

  • Lead the engineering organization and manage, coach, and support a team of engineers and manage relationships with external teams all over the world
  • Develop a strong technical vision on the direction of the application in partnership with the VP of Technology and GM
  • Bring a high level of technical expertise, guidance, and decision making to all areas of the organization. Elevate the engineering teams and execute on our long term technical plans
  • Contribute to an engineering culture dedicated to quality and impact


Qualifications

  • 10+ years of engineering experience and 2+ years of leadership experience
  • Highly technical with expertise in mobile development, CI/CD, infrastructure, dev ops
  • Proven track record building, scaling, and retaining engineering organizations. Strong advocate for your teams and engineering culture
  • Passionate about shipping games to market through strong partnerships with Product, Engineering, and Business
  • Demonstrated excellence in scaling an engineering organization through hiring


What you'll be doing:

  • Take ownership of development across both client & server for a new game in development
  • Collaborate with a team of engineers, artists, designers and QA to deliver exciting new content and outstanding user experiences in our best-in-class social casino apps
  • Release content every sprint and get immediate feedback from players as well as in depth metrics on how your content is being used.
  • Profile, identify, and implement performance enhancements for our systems


You are someone who has the following:

  • Skills
    • Great communication skills
    • Can break down complexity quickly
  • Attributes
    • Adaptable problem solver
    • Consummate professional
    • Understands how to balance and communicate risk
    • Consummate professional
    • Understands how to balance and communicate risk
  • Achievements
    • Led a large engineering organization, scaled, built
    • Has supported a complex engineering product through the entire SDLC
    • Background as an experienced engineer at some point in their career
    • Has shipped mobile products (hopefully games, in Unity)
  • Motivation Indicators
    • Asks specific questions regarding what success looks like and what the challenges are
    • Wants to better understand the organizational structure
    • Bonus Tip:
    • Working with distributed development teams that span many geographies, organizations and time zones


Big Fish Games is an equal-opportunity employer. We bring unique talents together to build something special that's why we welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.
Why Aristocrat?

  • World Leader in Gaming Entertainment
  • Robust benefits package
  • Global career opportunities


Our Values

  • All about the Player
  • Talent Unleashed
  • Collective Brilliance
  • Good Business Good Citizen


The US based roles may require registration with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.
Location
Remote - Washington
Job family
Big Fish Games
Contract Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Company
Big Fish Games

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