Technical Lead _ Rainbow Six

Oct 13, 2024
Montréal, Canada
... Not specified
... Senior
Full time
... Office work

As a technical lead on the Rainbow Six brand, you’ll be an integral part of pursuing state-of-the art improvements to all areas of engine-level code, including core tech, audio, and rendering.

Working with the Rainbow Six Siege team, you’ll identify and prioritize specific tech improvements, build and maintain a roadmap, and guide your team to execute the vision for those improvements at high quality.

The Rainbow Six Brand Tech Team is a distributed team spread across multiple studios, so it’s critical that you be able to communicate effectively with your remote partners and build strong relationships with them.

What you’ll do

  • Define the technical vision within the project’s Engine team + plan its technical roadmap.
  • Meet regularly with your programming team to discuss progress; tackle setbacks; share updates; present features; give feedback; informatively and constructively explain the root causes of risks and issues; etc.
  • Mentor and motivate programmers to develop their technical skills + provide them with what they need to work efficiently and achieve quality (tools, pipelines, etc.).
  • Write elegant code customized to the hardware you’re working with.
  • Provide technical oversight by reviewing code and making technical validations.
  • Anticipate and assess complex, escalated issues + propose adapted solutions.
  • Synch up with other technical leads to remove blockers and keep production moving forward.
  • Communicate with interdependent teams on other projects to exchange information.
  • Stay up to date on technological advancements and industry standards to define our best practices + share them with our studios.
  • Around 7 years of programming experience in C++
  • A deep understanding of a variety of game engines, systems, programming languages, interdependencies, and critical issues
  • The ability to make informed, immediate decisions with minimal long-term impacts
  • A strategic approach to problem-solving: you don’t just patch problems, you solve them so that they never happen again
  • Excellent mentorship, interpersonal, and presentation skills
  • A highly innovative and collaborative spirit
  • Effective cross-departmental communication: you can easily communicate with all disciplines + break down complex information for various audiences
  • A desire to share your knowledge to push the boundaries of technology & help others improve their skills

What to send our way

  • Your CV highlighting your education, experience, skills, and any games shipped