Technical Lead, Brisbane

Position Overview

A Technical Lead at Repeat defines how we build our product and solve hard problems. They work with peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product. They work together with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to solve common goals. They will work across the backend (NodeJs), and frontend (React.js, Typescript) parts of our application.

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Requirements

• Professional experience with React or another modern JavaScript web framework (Vue, Angular, Ember, etc.)
• Professional experience working with TypeScript, NodeJS, SQL (MySQL or PostgreSQL), MongoDB, and Kafka
• Strong grasp of event-driven architecture and event modeling
• Proficiency using Git in a professional/workplace environment
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to achieve consensus with peers and provide clear status updates, and an inclination towards inclusion
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Nice to have:

• Experience with architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman.
• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
• Experience with competitive video games such as Fortnite, Dota 2, League of Legends, Rocket League etc.
• Product or Enterprise software company experience
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
• Experience working with a global or multicultural team
• Experience contributing to open-source software

Responsibilities

• Designs and documents solutions to complex problems that meet product requirements and technical roadmaps.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to reuse or generalize existing services and product features. Avoids duplication of effort by encouraging collaboration.
• Teaches, mentors, grows, and provides advice to other domain experts and individual contributors across several teams in Repeat.
• Plays a central role in technical, business, and organizational contributions affecting Repeat.
• Plans improvements and features with a 6-month view.
• Solves technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity for Repeat.
• Looks for innovation opportunities between several teams with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope.
• Proposes initial technical implementation which supports architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems.
• Guides conversations to remove blockers and

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