| Title: Director of Engineering
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| Location: Cambridge, MA
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| Job Type: Direct Hire
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| Compensation: $130,000.00 to $170,000.00 per Year
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| Reference Code: 950314-AQG
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Description: Our client is seeking a world-class Software Engineering Leader to join their Core Technologies group. In this role, you will deal in a virtual world application used globally by millions and built upon the innovative user contributed 3D content and scripts. As the Engineering Director, you will lead and grow a team of virtual world server engineers to extend and retool the software that simulates and operates a virtual world. This leader must be extremely people focused and passionate about growing a great team delivering outstanding results.
Responsibilities:
- Lead engineering to extend and evolve the existing virtual world server
- Lead wrapping a closed client-server system with public facing APIs for use in building internal products and tools
- Open up the functionality to external developers via REST-ful SOA patterns
- Attract, develop, and inspire great talent including remote staff
- Use Agile software development and software quality practices to ensure code is delivered with quality, on time, and with the agreed scope
- Collaborate with product management to drive engineering roadmaps and schedules
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Requirements: This role requires an understanding of high performance, distributed, hosted applications, and design patterns for managing real-time 3d graphics generation serving 100,000s of simultaneous users interacting within a virtual space.
Qualifications also include:
- Experience with REST-based interfaces, C++, and LAMP stacks
- Strong leadership and change management skills; ability to galvanize energy and great people around driving growth through great software and ensure successful implementation through influence and hands-on leadership
- Strong understanding of software and services environments that underlay virtual worlds, while also having a strong business sense
- Proven success in early stage companies with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally
- In-depth AND hands on knowledge of software services and LAMP
- Great communication skills and being able to paint an exciting vision for software systems and drive it into practical reality
- Demonstrated success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment
- 10+ years of experience in defining and delivering server software products and services to a large number of customers
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
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