As a JavaScript Department Lead you will play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence while nurturing talent and fostering a collaborative culture. This hybrid role blends leadership with handson development offering you the chance to make a direct impact on both the product and the people behind it.
Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership & Development:
- Inspire and guide your team through organisational changes and challenges providing mentorship and motivation.
- Conduct 1:1s deliver constructive feedback and manage 360degree reviews.
- Set measurable goals and OKRs ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Identify training needs and support professional growth for team members.
- Talent Acquisition & Onboarding:
- Lead hiring initiatives to attract toptier talent.
- Ensure a seamless onboarding experience for team members.
- Engineering Excellence:
- Design and implement features that power nextgen games and the platform behind them.
- Deliver clean highquality code through rigorous testing and attention to detail.
- Diagnose and resolve complex systems issues
- Proactively identify and address obstacles to team productivity by implementing solutions that improve workflows provide clear guidance and streamline processes.
- Collaborative Innovation:
- Work closely with crossfunctional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Act as Ambassador for Frontend Development initiatives on a global scale.
This role assumes your time is shared between individual contributor activities as well as leadership activities.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience in delivering IT projects with a deep understanding of industry best practices.
- Expert knowledge of JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React Node.js) and libraries with a strong grasp of modern development methodologies CI/CD pipelines and scalable architecture principles as applied to Evolution products.
- Excellent command of English both spoken and written.
- Ability to work in a fastmoving highpressure environment whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
We will appreciate:
- A proven track record of leading motivating and developing teams as well as attracting and retaining top talent.
- Experience with React (or similar DOM libraries) Mobx Redux RxJS Babylon.js PixiJS ThreeJS HTML Canvas modular CSS testing libraries (Jest RTL Playwright WebdriverIO) and JavaScript ecosystem tools (Webpack npm Yarn).
We offer:
- Recognition from the business which translates to competitive salaries and a supportive attitude.
- A mix of startuplike culture encouraging innovation and new technologies combined with the stability and support of an established company to help you focus on your work.Developing games featuring live video serving customers around the world.
- Modern and developerfriendly delivery processes including Agile (Scrum / Kanban) JIRA issue tracking and Confluence wiki.
- Being a part of an international team in a successful publicly traded company
- Health insurance contemporary office environment tech conference attendance training hackathons and other benefits and perks.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime