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Technical Director
Amazon
Seattle, WA, United States
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Technical Director - Amazon Game Studios
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is all in on games.
The team behind Crucible is looking for a Software Development Manager who is passionate about games. Crucible is a battle to the last survivor on a hostile alien world. Players choose and customize heroes, making alliances and betraying allies on their path to victory. An additional player heightens the drama by triggering events, live-streaming the battles, and interacting with viewers.
We believe the evolution that began with arcade communities a quarter at a time, growing to the live streams and esports of today, will continue to a future where everyone is a gamer and every gamer can create, compete, collaborate and connect with others at massive scales. If you share our belief that games will produce some of the future’s most influential voices in media and art, come join us. At Amazon’s Amazon Games, Seattle, you’ll have the power of Amazon Web Services’ cloud, Twitch, Amazon Lumberyard, and our digital and physical media publishing infrastructure available as raw material to forge a future filled with amazing experiences for players, broadcasters and creators.
What you do:
Own development of features end-to-end
Work on project ideas with designers, artists, production, influencers, and peers
Balance customer requirements with team requirements
Contribute to and lead design, architecture, process, and development discussions which impact Crucible and Amazon Game Studios
Effectively mentor and manage a critical team of software developers including their projects and performance
Define, document, negotiate, communicate, own, and deliver a Gameplay team roadmap, from implementing new gameplay features, to refactoring existing architecture, to collaborating with design to bring prototypes into a complete state
Distill and communicate technical concepts to the team and other stakeholders
Foster a constructive dialogue and argue for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 3+ years people management experience
• Experience with OOD and object oriented languages
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Hires great people. Develops great people.
• Demonstrated serial success in team building, agile processes, and game development
• Strong business and technical vision
• Has a track record of successfully participating in roadmap prioritization with product management; able to successfully communicate complex topics to customers and business owners alike
• Has taken software features from inception to customer delivery
• Deep hands-on technical expertise
• A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time