Principal Technical Producer - Backend

March 17

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $205k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Second Dinner

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Second Dinner is an award-winning independent game studio based in California. The company is known for creating fun and engaging games, with a focus on building a diverse team of talented individuals passionate about gaming. Despite being a small studio, Second Dinner has big dreams and is committed to making some of the best games in the world. The company is actively hiring and offers opportunities for individuals who are passionate about their craft.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🎮 Gaming

💰 Corporate Round on 2019-01

📋 Description

• You will report to the Associate Director of Production in charge of Marvel SNAP production. • Your primary responsibility is to partner with the backend and platform teams to ensure smooth release cycles and live operations of Marvel Snap worldwide. • Oversee and make critical decisions on live game issues. • Evolve and maintain best practices for development operations. • Work with the Backend & Infra/Platform engineering team to improve Marvel SNAP’s cloud infrastructure and reduce cloud operational costs. • Work with the Live Operations engineering team to improve application performance, and handling of live issues. • Manage vendor relationships and costs for our AWS Cloud Infrastructure. • Follow a checklist to build, deploy, and release updates to the game. • Manage our client build configurations and our store releases via Apple App Store, Google Play Console, Steamworks, and Samsung Seller Portal. • Coordinate release schedules for client and server hotfixes with marketing, QA, engineers, product, and design. • Create and approve pull requests, which sometimes involves writing basic code. • Proactively identify and mitigate bottlenecks to keep the team running smoothly. • Champion the project vision to the team.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience shipping and supporting a live game or live service as a technical producer or technical program manager • Hands-on experience with a version control software like GitHub • High levels of empathy and support for team members • Positive and optimistic leadership style and the ability to stay cool under pressure • Excellent and flexible communication skills whether in person, over Zoom, or in writing • Comfortable with ambiguity while working to reduce the cone of uncertainty • Love for playing and making great games • Nice to Have: Experience with AWS or another Cloud provider • Nice to Have: Experience working on a live mobile game • Nice to Have: Experience using Unity • Nice to Have: Experience with the app stores – Apple App Store, Google Play Console, Steamworks, Samsung Seller Portal

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans with Second Dinner paying 100% of premiums for employees and 75% for dependents for many plans • 401(k) contribution with no waiting period • 16 weeks paid parental leave with no waiting period • Home office improvement bonus • Paid Vacation & Sick time • Up to 10 BetterHelp sessions covered each benefits plan year • Remote-first with core overlap hours between 10AM and 4PM PT • Company Winter Holiday shutdown (Dec 25-Jan 1) • Company Summer Holiday shutdown (week of July 4) • Company Events - In-person Summer all-hands gathering, in-person holiday party, and virtual events throughout the year