Senior Manager - Engineering

Job Description

Our Codemasters studio based in Cheshire has an amazing opportunity for a Senior Manager, overseeing Engineering, to join the team that was responsible for last years critically acclaimed Dirt 5. Cheshire studio has a rich development history and has been a recognised hub of talent within the North-West for decades.

The team have been hard at work supporting Dirt 5 since its launch with plenty of additional content and optimisation and improvements and now they are committed on delivering an outstanding experience with their next AAA project.

Reporting to the Technical Director and working with the other studio Leads, you will lead a team of software engineers working on the project. You will not solely be focussed on managing and you will have plenty of opportunity to get involved with the daily coding side of things. As a generalist programmer, you will be afforded a high-degree of autonomy to allow you to get involved with many specialisations such as CPU optimisation, memory management, IO and network, amongst others, and help support your team accordingly.

Responsibilities will include:
• Lead a programming team at technical and personnel level
• Mentor junior programmers in the team and plan their skill development
• Help in setting up best practices for coding and conduct regular code reviews.
• Setup processes while working in collaboration with other teams to meet the technical needs of the project
• Plan and evaluate the work performed by team and analyse the impact on the project
• Identify risks involved with the development of the project and provide solutions to resolve complex problems
• Provide estimate time to complete programming tasks and goals and be committed to meet them

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d28y6y-18-116-13-113-42 in your application.