Director of Engineering, Web
Arkadium, Russia
Job Description
At Arkadium our purpose is to have fun while creating fun - and that’s exactly what we’ve been doing for 20 years.
We’re the creators behind the world’s most-played games. From the Solitaire that came on your Windows machine, to hundreds of other games you’ve come to know and love - you can find our games on Arkadium.com, iOS, Android, and lots of other big sites worldwide.
As a proud Evergreen business our values of Fierce Drive, Positive Energy and Living Full Lives are the driving force behind how we run and the choices we make.
We’re privately held (aka stable and reasonable about growth), founder-led (aka passionate about our craft) and we consistently rank as a Best Place to Work (aka not your typical games company).
Overview
Arkadium is seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to oversee and drive the strategy for our web-based tech. This includes our front-end facing websites as well as our backend tech. This person will play a key role in building Arkadium’s engineering culture while ensuring the success of our existing products and future product pipeline. We require an excellent communicator and manager of tech talent that will lead and nurture local and remote development teams. This is an exciting role for someone who loves working with empowered teams, rapid testing environments, and creating engaging experiences for end-users.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience building scalable, consumer-facing mobile or web products
- Proven track record of managing top tech talent and high performing teams
- Strong foundational knowledge of software engineering and familiarity with various technologies such as NodeJS, ReactJs, or similar web technologies.
- Experience with functional languages will be a plus
- Practical experience in delivering software, leveraging cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.
- Familiarity with cloud-based microservices
- Strong portfolio of finished projects.
- Strong understanding of web analytics
- Proficiency in agile methodologies.
- Working knowledge of data protection laws and practices (CCPA and GDPR)
- Understand the QA roles and involvement in the process.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical and thought leadership as our web industry subject matter expert
- Partner with key stakeholders from various departments to identify business opportunities and set a long-term technical vision
- Help teams to architect, design and execute high-quality engineering solutions for all our web-based products
- Organization of software development life cycle, from code to release
- Turning business opportunities to technical solutions
- Encourage and lead your team to deliver high-quality products
- Hire, lead and guide the career growth of A-players on engineering teams
- Work with QA team and ensure that engineering and QA team synchronized in their efforts to deliver the best possible software
- Automate testing through the CI/CD pipeline
- Oversee teams of Web engineers as well as QA engineers
Benefits
- Performance-based annual bonus;
- Health Insurance with heavily subsidized medical, dental amp; vision plans starting on day one;
- Additional paid time off;
- A good balance between work and personal life;
- A focus on professional growth through internal training, access to professional conferences, and specialized training and certification to industry standards;
- Paid English lessons if needed;
- Individual budget for personal development;
- Paid relocation to Krasnodar if you want to relocate as our base hub is in Krasnodar.