Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Office Location

Indiranagar, Bengaluru

Experience Required: 7-11 Years

Max Notice Period : 60 Days

Outstation Candidates Allowed

Role & Responsibilities

You'll work closely with our team to implement best practices, improve our architecture, and create a high-performance engineering culture. Over a 6-9 month period, you'll also immerse yourself in game development, Unity, and C# to become a well-rounded technical leader in the gaming space.

• Drive maximum development velocity through direct involvement in development sprints, ensuring developers work as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Drive architectural decisions that ensure scalable, maintainable, and high-performance game products.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture aligned with ambitious goals, accountability, and proactive problem-solving.
• Implement and enforce engineering best practices (e.g., code reviews, testing, documentation) and the adoption of new tools, technologies including AI, and methodologies to optimize team efficiency.
• Transition our team to a high-performance culture aligned with our ambitious, venture-backed goals.

Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership role
• Ability to reasonably estimate and plan tasks and features.
• Strong programming fundamentals and hands-on coding abilities
• Strong grasp of software architecture, TDD, code reviews, and clean coding principles.
• Proficient at profiling games to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Experience building complex, scalable software systems
• Proven track record of driving architectural decisions and technical excellence
• Experience mentoring and developing engineering talent
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Perks, Benefits and Work Culture

• We foster a culture of continuous learning.
• We value talent and the ability for significant self-improvement.
• Honest feedback and transparency across all departments allow for rapid skill development.
• You will have the opportunity to work on an exciting new game development product with complete autonomy.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹3,400,000.00 - ₹4,500,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

• Strong Senior Lead Engineer Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have minimum 8+ years of total software engineering experience (Preferrably in Native Mobile Development)
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have minimum 3+ years of backend developement exerience (any language like Python, PHP, Golang, Ruby etc)
• Mandatory (Experience 3): Must have minimum 1+ years of frontend developement exerience (any language like javascript, reach, angular etc)
• Mandatory (Experience 4): Must have minimum 1+ years in a technical leadership role, leading and mentoring engineers (more than 5 team size)
• Mandatory (Experience 5): Must have strong programming fundamentals with practical coding experience, code reviews, TDD, and clean code principles
• Preferred (Company): Product companies
• Preferred (Skills): Experience in Unity and C#
• Over a 6-9 month period, you'll immerse yourself in game development, Unity, and C# to become a well-rounded technical leader in the gaming space. Are you okay to learn game development?
• Are you open to work 6 days in WFO mode?
• Are you open to timings: 10am to 8pm(Monday to Friday), Saturday 12pm to 6pm?
• Are you okay for hands on coding (this role requires 30% coding and 70% team management)?
• What is the team size you have managed?

Work Location: In person