Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
5+ years of large-scale production experience in a leadership or technical management experience leading teams of engineers (e.g. as a technical producer, tech director, lead programmer, or similar).
5+ years working on cross-platform code bases including OSX and Windows.
3+ years of professional Qt related software engineering experience, working on multi-discipline teams with a specialty in tools and pipeline development

Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch – with full source. The Lumberyard team aspires to help game developers create the highest quality games, engage massive communities of fans, and connect their games to the vast compute and storage of the cloud.

We’re just getting started with Lumberyard. We have an excellent team with long tenure building some of the industry’s most respected games, but we are still growing fast and have many positions left to fill. We’re looking for pioneers who can imagine and deliver world-class technology for tomorrow’s most celebrated games. We’re looking for the best people in the industry to join our team of veterans. If you’re excited about the opportunity to invent and build with Amazon technology including AWS and Twitch, we want to talk to you.

As a software development manager for Core Engine on Lumberyard, you will collaborate with artists, platform partners, and other technical leaders to chart our core systems roadmap and deliver on it. Your ambition is to empower content creators and developers to deliver the revolutionary next generation of real-time interactive experiences. You are passionate about hiring and developing great technical teams, and driving delivery of impactful customer results.

Key responsibilities include:

Lead a team of engineers responsible for the development of a broad range of Lumberyard technology stack.
Drive a coherent technology roadmap from sometimes ambiguous requirements balancing a focus on long-term ambitious vision with short and medium term customer requirements.
Lead teams of engineers responsible for the development of Lumberyard's core engine technology, tools and workflows.
Hire world-class engineers, and retain them.
Coach your team members and grow their capabilities over time.
Participate in the architecture and technology choices that enable a world-class user experience.
Be a champion for the user: Insist on the highest standards, and create functional and engaging features that delight customers.
Experience managing remote teams and engineers.
Multiple shipped PC/Console titles
Proven expertise building tools and pipelines for game technology using Qt and C++
Experience with roadmap planning.
Deep understanding of game development tools and technologies (e.g. editors, plug-ins, asset pipelines)Experience working on shared/core technology teams for games
Experience with CryEngine or Lumberyard (alternatively Unity, Unreal, or other game engines)
Experience working in a distributed development environment
Working experience with multithreaded and distributed systems
Experience working in Agile/Scrum.

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