Gamers are the pillars of everything we do. This is why every day we strive to improve the GOG.com experience by adding new great features to our platform and expanding our catalogue with carefully chosen and tested content. We are searching for a leader for one of the web development teams in order to make gamers’ lives even greater.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinating and managing an autonomous, agile development team.
- Providing technical and process strategies for the team.
- Developing and maintaining highly available, scalable web services for millions of gamers around the world.
- Communicating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure all projects are delivered with high quality.
- Creating and maintaining the team’s roadmap.
- Supporting the professional development of all team members.
- Staying abreast of best trends by researching new tools, as well as enhancing and further developing existing solutions.
- Sharing your knowledge with other team members and supporting them in solving complex challenges.
- 5+ years’ experience in web development (PHP or Javascript).
- Previous (and successful) experience in managing others.
- Proficiency in project management, as well as excellent organization and coordination skills.
- Experience with work in an agile environment.
- Ability to easily communicate in English.
- An overwhelming desire to code the best web services on the Internet.
- Strong understanding of best security practices.
- Familiarity with Symfony in a production environment.
- Hands-on experience with microservice architecture, projects scalability and performance tuning of web applications.
- Experience with TDD, BDD, DDD.
- Knowledge of at least some of the buzzwords: Rest, OAuth2, RabbitMQ or Docker.
- Experience with caching (Varnish, Memcache, Redis).
- Understanding of source control systems and deployment processes.
- Passion for gaming, game services, and online communities.
- A unique opportunity to enter a booming industry and to influence the future of digital distribution.
- A gamer’s paradise where you will be surrounded by games - living & breathing them!
- A great, laid-back work atmosphere in our office based in Warsaw, Poland.
- The chance to work in an international environment with exceptional experts.
- A Profit Sharing Program after 6 months of work, where employees share 10 % of GOG.com's net profit (paid out once a year).
- Access to a health care and sport activities package.
- A relocation package for foreigners as well as assistance from our HR throughout the whole process.
- Polish lessons should you need them.
- Frequent social activities, free fruits, an in-house canteen, and other goodies are a standard.
- An in-house gym, open 24/7, available exclusively for CD PROJEKT RED & GOG.com employees.
- Free access to CD PROJEKT RED & GOG.com games.
Please be informed that we reserve the right to contact only selected applicants. The hired individual will need to work in-house, in our office based in Warsaw, Poland.
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