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TLM Partners, Inc. is a world-class digital entertainment company led by industry veterans. We are an engineering powerhouse, and our Subject Matter Experts work on some of the most ambitious projects in the industry and work alongside partners as 'off-site' professional services for publishers, indie video game developers, SAAS, Cloud, and Visualization companies. We are setting the bar for best-in-class cross play gaming experiences on every platform using our custom technologies and tools.
We offer a 100% remote working environment as a “Cloud Studio” with awesome benefits to support a harmonious work life balance from anywhere in the world. Come join our vision to build a world class studio.
Position Summary: Lead Tools Engineer
- As a Lead Tools Engineer you will help define technological initiatives and and participate in their architecture, planning, development, and review
- Build, mentor, and lead a Tools engineering team
- Must have created one or more tools for PC, or console development
- Must have demonstrable experience improving team efficiency and productivity through tools
- Educate the company on how making powerful tools is how to win in the marketplace
- Full-time, 100% remote (from anywhere in the world)
- Participate in hands-on software engineering work, and mentor junior engineers
Responsibilities:
- Inspire the tools team to create amazing tools that are efficient, secure and reliable
- Own and manage game editing, data pipeline, automation systems and tools
- Design recommendations and solutions for existing architecture to improve performance, security, and reliability
- Work with the team to develop native tools, build pipelines, and online tools for multiple platforms/games/consoles
- Interface with multiple departments to gather requirements, observe workflows, and improve the process of making games that players love
- Facilitate collaborative development efforts across all aspects of the software lifecycle
- Contribute to the company standards for coding, reviews and documentation
- Support both national and international production teams to manage feature breakdown, estimates, technical risks and mitigation
- Improve the process of making games that players love
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 7+ years of experience developing tools
- 3+ years of leadership experience and launching games
- 1+ shipped AAA game
- Strong programming skills in multiple languages
- Experience optimizing and extending a content build pipeline
- Familiarity with digital content creation tools (Maya, Houdini, etc.)
- Strong programming skills in multiple languages
- Mastery of UI/UX practices for software developers and tool users
- Well-versed in PC and Console game development techniques and best practices
- Can work independently with a team that is spread across multiple time zones
- Ability to create and maintain technical documentation from the beginning of a project through completion
- Dedication, teamwork and professionalism
- Great interpersonal skills
Desired Qualifications:
- Created multiple tools for multiple game titles
- 7+ years experience in the games industry
- Experience writing technical documentation
- Familiarity with current and next console SDKs, Steam, Epic Game Store,
- Familiarity with common game industry tools & middleware
- Expertise in UI/UX, UI Frameworks, Mathematics, or Graphics a plus
- Full Stack Engineering experience a plus
