Game Engineering Director

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October 22

☕ Washington – Remote

Although this job is listed in Washington, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $255k - $383k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Gaming • B2C

teamLFG is a PlayStation Studios-affiliated game development studio based in Bellevue, WA that builds immersive, action-driven social multiplayer games designed to foster friendship, community, and belonging. The team combines industry veterans (with credits on Destiny, Halo, League of Legends, Fortnite, Roblox, Rec Room) and newer creators working across the U. S. and Canada to deliver highly polished moment-to-moment gameplay and long-term multiplayer engagement.

11 - 50 employees

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary project leadership team to develop and maintain a product technology strategy that is informed by product vision, technical costs, and long-term technology goals • Leveraging the Unreal Engine and technology the team has built, direct the engineering organization to tackle challenging problems, find combinations of innovative technology with proven models, and build reliable solutions that deliver game experiences while sensibly managing technology risks • Recruit, nurture, and retain an engineering organization (30+ engineers, both internal FTE and external codev) with the skills, capacity, and adaptability to navigate uncertainty and deliver on the changing needs of the project • Manage multiple senior engineering leads, providing management support, technical guidance, constructive feedback, and career development coaching • Work with production leadership to schedule, track, deliver, and close out game features and releases, anticipating and mitigating any critical risks encountered, technical or otherwise • Communicate with PlayStation executives, directors, and technology teams, as needed

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing an organization of 20+ engineers on AAA game engineering teams • Experience working with and directing co-development engineering teams • Experience with developing and running online games in a live service environment • Ability to align with leadership and executive stakeholders, translate goals into strategic technology solutions with a thorough understanding of cost, efficiency, and quality tradeoffs, and then lead an organization to execute on a technology strategy • Effectively communicate with and inspire fellow engineers by driving team alignment and buy-in on technology vision and architectural principles • Ability to work with a team in a hybrid environment, leveraging real time chat communications and documentation across an entire game studio • Ability to communicate with stakeholders of different business, technical, and non-technical backgrounds, to help align objectives and negotiate common goals

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • dental • vision • matching 401(k) • paid time off • wellness program • coveted employee discounts for Sony products • bonus package