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Lead — Code

A Lead in the Code discipline owns the technical direction, quality and delivery of a programming team (for example gameplay, engine, graphics, tools, online, data or security engineering). The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management: setting architecture and coding standards, line-managing and mentoring engineers, planning and estimating work with production, and acting as the technical point of contact between engineering and other disciplines. A Lead continues to contribute high-quality code while raising the capability, consistency and delivery of the whole team.

  • Extensive hands-on programming experience (commonly C++ / C# and discipline-specific languages) with a proven record of shipping titles
  • Ability to define architecture, design patterns and frameworks, and to set and enforce coding standards and best practice
  • Technical leadership: guiding architecture decisions, code review, debugging and performance/optimisation
  • Experience leading and line-managing engineers, including objective-setting and performance management
  • Strong grasp of pipelines, build/infrastructure and cross-team technical dependencies

Software & Tools

C

C

Python

Unity

Perforce

Git

Jenkins

Jira

Technical Areas

Technical leadership & architecture

team line-management & mentoring

standards & code quality

planning/estimation with production

animation pipelines & tools

build & infrastructure

cross-discipline integration

Interpersonal Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Problem-solving

Organisation

Decision-making