Technical Director – Mobile Games – Barcelona

This vacancy may offer a work-from-home start until it’s safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

Project: Mobile Games

OPM’s latest client is a fast-growing start-up, located in beautiful Barcelona, who have recently partnered with a top publisher endeavouring to create the next generation of hit mobile games.

The successful candidate will be a determined front-end programmer who will lead a team of developers to add scalable game elements that can support millions of users.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Extensive experience developing in the games industry
• Ability to detect and prevent global issues, trends, and interactions.
• Extensive understanding of object-oriented programming and software architecture
• Great understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of math involved in computer graphics.
• Professional experience developing on at least one popular game engine e.g. Unity or Unreal
• Strong communication skills and able to work in an English-speaking team
• Ability to stretch working times, responsibilities, and work under pressure whenever necessary.
• Great understanding of one or more programming languages such as C#, C++, Java etc

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Outline the technological strategy in conjunction with the development team of each project: pipeline, tools, and key development procedures.
• Evaluate technical risk and mitigation plan.
• Determine standards and procedures to track and measure project's progression.
• Assess development teams, identifying strengths, problem areas, and developing plans for improving performance.
• Evaluate and interview candidates for technical positions.
• Scout for and evaluate new technology and tools as opportunities for innovation and development excellence.
• Oversee technical design documentation process for correctness and timeliness.
• Provide input to the other disciplines on the practicality of initial design goals and impact to the overall project timeline.
• Evaluates software implementation on design and task thoroughness.
• Assist in identifying high risk areas for the project director.
• Identify weak software systems that need code improvement and schedules corrective action, when possible.
• Build automated test process for system features, where possible, and contributes to the build system.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Bachelor's degree(s) in Computer Science or associated field.
• Experience with mobile development.

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 422!

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