Game Server development Team leader

Responsibilities
• Demonstrates experience delivering high quality solutions in a predictable manner
• Creates standards for architectural requirements and software design
• Can envision and lead a creative process to build stunning game server
• Broad product development experience (including high availability systems, network communication such as TCP/UDP, performance tweaks and good understanding of security and encryption protocols)
• Subject matter expertise in games development
• Knowledge of a broad range of technologies and practices
Overview
This position is for an experienced game server development team leader in the field of online games software development.
The team leader will be required to design and build the entire games server from scratch suing existing open source frameworks and 3rd party tools, the design should be robust to ensure high availability, scalability and high quality work, on tight deadlines.
This team will be responsible of server-side development such as game logic / game rules and other server side assets as may be required. The development process spans multiple sites globally and the manager will be required to collaborate with peers and teams in other sites such as, offshore game server developers, back-office systems developers, game-client development teams and game studios all being responsible for the production of a fully functional game platform from concept to launch.

• Minimum 7 years of experience in developing games for either the casual, serious/hardcore or gambling spaces
• Proven track record and demonstrable games portfolio
• Experience developing high availability, scalable game servers
• Hands-on with the following technologies: C#, TCP
• This position might require traveling abroad a 2-3 times a year
• It is preferred that the candidate will have experience working overseas for international companies
• Experience building a game server from scratch for a leading gaming company
• Deep understanding of server side software architecture and design patterns
• Advantage: experience developing MMORPG game
• C++ an advantage