Build Engineer – AAA Games – Stockholm

Our client is an independent AAA developer, based in Stockholm, dedicated to creating huge open worlds, full of explosive, emergent gameplay. They manage more than 6 million players in the online world of one of their hugely successful titles and are currently hard at work on several future projects.

AAA games development involves building and managing a large and complex code base for diverse platforms as well as enormous amounts of data. As a Build Engineer you will take the technical leadership of this area and you will be setting the vision for their developer’s productivity. You will have the overall responsibility for the workflow efficiency of the development of the current build system in terms of how programmers and content creators develop, manage, and build their code and data. That includes analysing workflow, identifying bottlenecks and developing solutions to improve productivity.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven professional experience as a Build Engineer or similar.
• Excellent skills in Python development
• Experience with configuring build automation systems such as WAF, Scons, make, (N)Ant or Maven.
• Experience with Continuous Integration solutions such as Jenkins, CruiseControl, TeamCity or Bamboo.
• Experience with Revision Control Systems, preferably Perforce.
• Thorough understanding and knowledge of software development methods and frameworks.
• Games industry experience desirable but not essential.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies, Java development, web service development and distributed systems advantageous.

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