Job Description
As a Programming Team Lead within Ubi MTL’s Harbour Team, you oversee a group of back-end programmers in developing a live, online web platform that supports all our Ubisoft games.
You guide them in building the foundational features that make up the platform. That includes social features like chat boxes and data-backed ones like personalized suggestions, among others.
Your team achieves its goals thanks to your technical know-how, leadership, and ability to make informed choices. When quality features are delivered and when they work together cohesively, you know you have contributed to delivering a reliable, consistent, enriching experience to our players. And that’s what truly motivates you.
What you’ll do
On a typical day, you gather your team to discuss progress with assigned tasks. You note issues and brainstorm ways to address them. You review outstanding bugs and how best to approach them. You communicate regularly with leads from other disciplines, to plan ahead, identify risks, and deliver on time.
You code alongside your team on a daily basis. You regularly update your project lead on your team’s assignments and meet with other leads both within and outside your project to discuss how to improve workflows and share technology.
Qualifications
What you bring
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
- Around 8 years of software development experience (or other relevant experience) + 3 years of management
- Proficiency in a variety of programming languages (especially C#, JavaScript, C++, and WPF)
- Solid interpersonal, and communication skills
- The ability to remain calm when faced with setbacks (you know there’s always a solution at hand)
- An understanding of live operations
- Empathy that allows you to see from a player’s point of view as well as your team’s
What to send our way
- Your CV, highlighting your education, experience, and skills
A real live person will review your application. In this case, it’s our talent acquisition specialist Karin. As she learns more about you through your profile, get to know her through the video below.
Harbour: online solutions at Ubisoft
As Ubisoft’s online platform developer, Harbour helps bring high-quality connected experiences to millions of players worldwide. Working alongside production teams, we leverage state-of-the-art solutions to enable value-filled features in all our online games – throughout their development and while they’re live. With a view of Ubisoft’s entire digital ecosystem and a long-term approach to online gaming, we focus on finding the right solution for the right purpose. And if the solution we need doesn’t exist yet? That’s just an opportunity for us to create it.
About us
At Ubisoft Montreal, a preeminent developer of video games located in Montreal’s dynamic Mile-End neighbourhood since 1997, we offer a work environment unique in the industry for allowing you to build and cultivate games that are part of critically acclaimed, iconic AAA franchises of international repute.
When you join Ubi Montreal, you enter a community of passionate, extraordinary developers connected by their need to innovate, to be creative and to work with the latest technology. You’ll discover a world where employees enjoy constant career advancement, a supportive learning environment, and competitive compensation packages.
More than anything, at Ubi Montreal, you will regularly ship a variety of big, quality titles – Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six, Watch_Dogs, For Honor and… well we can’t disclose all our secrets just yet… – and work with some of the most talented people in the industry.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.
