Tech Lead Game Backend Developer
Scorewarrior is a game developer and publisher based in Limassol, Cyprus. The company focuses on the 4X strategy genre, with an ambitious goal to grow its hit game, Total Battle, to become the No.1 strategy game in the world. Our team consists of 200+ passionate, talented, self-driven, and continually developing professionals who love making high-quality games.
Our product: We are currently working on Total Battle — an MMO 4X strategy game with a deep political system and lots of player interaction. Players take on the role of a commander and need to develop their city, forge alliances, fight against monsters, and conquer other players. We're constantly developing new game mechanics, and the project is continuing to grow.
Our game project has a code base of ~300k SLOC and consists of multiple services running in several hundred instances. The game services are a sharded system for horizontal scaling.
Our team is seeking a Tech Lead with deep C++ expertise and strong architectural vision to steer the evolution of new game functionality for a large-scale multiplayer project with long-term gameplay.
Our team's objective and the challenge they face is to create an outstanding technical design that ensures quality, flexibility, and simplicity in the development of in-game features.
Tasks:
Identifying and eliminating issues that reduce developer effectiveness on the team or lead to low-quality solutions.
Coordinating with Framework and Core teams to resolve problems that arise when using their solutions and overseeing the remediation process.
Conducting technical reviews of solutions developed within the team.
Creating a preliminary solution design, decomposing features based on it, and training the team in these skills.
Participating in hiring new developers: evaluating candidates and conducting technical interviews.
Performing design, development, or technical-debt tasks with the time remaining after fulfilling tech lead responsibilities.