Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

At Warner Bros. Games San Francisco we are bringing to life some of the world's most iconic characters, stories, and universes. Come help us build a world-class studio and take leading entertainment franchises to 1.2 billion mobile gamers. We are committed to creating fun and engaging games for our fans and are positioning ourselves to be a top player in mobile.

The Team

We're a team of architecture focused game developers dedicated to bringing the world's best IPs to life. We pride ourselves on building reusable and sustainable architecture to be utilized on WB Games SF projects, and the projects of our sister studios.

Whether it is bringing Batman's vengeance to life or exploring the Wizarding World, we create the games that connect fans to the IPs they know and love.

The Job

As a Lead Engineer you will be a key player in continuing to foster the growth and development of this community. Contributing both directly and indirectly through the engineers in your reporting structure.

In addition, you will partner with our cross-discipline game partners to push the goals and projects of the team forward.

As a great candidate for this role, you will
• Be responsible for the overall success of your reports.
• Mentor and coach your reports to push them forward towards their goals.
• Be an exemplar of ''What Good Looks Like'' for your reports.
• Be a strong conduit of information for our cross-discipline partners
• Be an agent of efficiency supporting directly and through your reports the timely delivery of features and systems.
• Ensure technical design of systems meet team standards.
• Synthesize high level requests into an actionable and approachable task list.
• Be an advocate for process and workflow improvements.
• Understand the high-level goals of the business and ensure our implementations align with said goals.
• Write and deliver strongly designed highly efficient system solutions

What we need to succeed
• Experience leading a team of game engineers to deliver games (From concept to Live Ops preferred)
• Experience/Interest in learning full stack development (Server and Client)
• A lead with a strong technical design skills
• Strong Unity/C# skills and the ability to code and architect game systems and tools (Typescript a plus but not required)
• A strong interest in the gaming landscape, understanding what contributes to a games success and what contributes to their failure. (an interest in online/mobile games is preferred)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Mobile Development experience
• Performance minded, understanding the process of profiling and optimization
• Experience working on a live service game
• Self-motivated, strong work ethic, and able to work independently
• Creativity in problem-solving and the ability to think outside of the established solutions

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ro6nbp-18-218-127-141-42 in your application.