Principal Engineer – Pudgy World

We are looking for a skilled Principal Engineer for Pudgy World, who has a proven track record of leading engineering efforts for successful games. As the Principal Engineer you will lead and grow highly-skilled engineers with technical vision and mentoring, delivering a top-notch training platform to hundreds of thousands of players everyday.

Role Expectations 

• Serve as a technical leader on Pudgy World and all associated projects. 

• Lead the engineering team to define and implement strategic goals and milestones, establish best practices, and promote the core development values of the engineering team. 

• Own the big picture for engineering while rolling up your sleeves and coding critical features for Pudgy World. 

• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to the engineering team.

• Set the bar for engineering within the org to increase productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. 

• Be a hands-on participant in architecture/design for our hardest technical challenges. 

• Implement critical engineering processes such as continuous integration, code reviews, and branching strategies. 

• Work with Product Management, Art & Design, Marketing and other disciplines leads to scope tasks and support the roadmap, sprints, and key milestones. 

• Balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices. 

• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices. 

• Own the hiring process for the game’s engineering team by identifying skill gaps and work with talent acquisition and people managers to find and recruit candidates.

You have 

• 7+ years of professional experience as a software engineer shipping games.

• 3+ years of experience leading a team of software engineers as a principal engineer or lead engineer to architect, and develop live service mobile, web, or cross-platform games. 

• Experience with WebGL/ThreeJS

• Shipped 3-5 mid-size games as a senior or lead engineer.

• Bonus: Experience with Web3.