Technical Lead - Javascript (Games)

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide technical support and guidance within the games department
• Develop and maintain tools to support development and operations
• internal studios to build games on the RGP platform.
• Maintain the VCS and build tools used within the development studio
• Mentor and support members of the development studio to develop their technical abilities
• Carry out technical reviews to ensure technical expectations are met and guidelines followed
• Assess games during pre-production to ensure technical costs are understood and risks are
• highlighted
• Provide guidance to art-workers, designers and producer to help them understand how
• animations should be built and what is possible
• Create automation tooling and dashboards for capturing and monitoring game metrics
• Ensure technical documents are accurate and up to date
• Continuously improve the technical processes used within development studio

Technical Requirements:

• Strong Javascript skills and appreciation of the Javascript ecosystem
• Excellent Technical Writing skill with experience creating technical documentation
• Good knowledge of optimisation techniques for mobile web
• Ability to design and communicate complex technical solutions
• Hands on experience developing client-side mobile applications and games
• Excellent understanding of software development processes such as TDD, BDD and Unit
• Testing
• Experience with continuous delivery, integration and build technologies
• Working knowledge of git ideally with GitHub experience
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies, e.g. Scrum, XP, Kanban, etc
• Experience with 3D technologies and pipelines highly desirable

Your Profile:

• A passion for games and delivering the best experience to the customers
• Ability to work both collaboratively and without supervision
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Takes a pragmatic approach to development, taking into consideration product delivery
• deadlines and code quality
• Comfortable working in a dynamic work environment with rapidly changing priorities and some
• context switching
• Good business sense and understands the importance of ROI