Technical Lead - London, United Kingdom - Epic Games

Epic Games

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Department
Engineering

Location
London
England, United Kingdom

Company
SuperAwesome

Requisition ID
R23932

The SuperAwesome Mission

SuperAwesome is building a safer internet for the next generation.

We've pioneered the tech sector for youth audiences:
creating solutions that enable brands and developers to engage safely and at scale with kids and teens.

SuperAwesome technology powers over 12 billion digital touchpoints with young audiences across rich media and video ads, creator content, social communities, gaming, and parental consent.

We are the biggest youth-focused tech team on the planet, solving the challenges of engagement with the under-20 audience.

At the intersection of technology, law, media and policy, working with us gives you a chance to shape what the internet of the future looks like.

As a part of Epic Games since September 2021, together we've opened up a whole new window of opportunity to create responsible, immersive digital experiences for kids and teens.

It's a unique, challenging, and rewarding environment.
What You'll Do

As a Tech Lead at SuperAwesome, your main responsibilities will be three-fold: you'll be ultimately responsible for the system underpinning your product, you'll act as a hands-on mentor who can lead teammates by example, and you'll ensure the technical direction for your team is sound, clear and aligned to the product needs as well as to the overall technology strategy.

In this role, you will

You'll work across the full stack depending on where your skills can drive the highest impact: backend, frontend and infrastructure, working with your team to design and implement features and services for the product your team owns.
You'll be a handson mentor for the teams and drive quality and reliability from the getgo, making sure the growth in system complexity and cost is managed over time
You will be the master of your team's product domains, working with your team's Product and Engineering Manager to build and iterate on the product roadmap
You will work closely with the Senior Engineering Lead and VP of Product for Ads to define the technical feasibility and strategy of the future of our products and platforms
You'll champion the DevOps culture, treat operations with a missioncritical mindset, and support the live system in production, including participation in our outofhours oncall rota

Our stack is entirely cloud native, and includes technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, SumoLogic, Datadog, Angular/React, and Typescript.

What we're looking for

We wholeheartedly believe a good engineer can pick up any new technology in a reasonable amount of time and you'll be given training and help during your onboarding to become fully proficient with our stack.

We look for engineers who;

We look for engineers who:

Are passionate about building technology at scale that is capable of making the world a better place, and want to do it at SuperAwesome.
Have a product mindset and a keen focus on solving the challenges we face as a business
Are natural leaders and very experienced engineers. You have your opinions on how software should be built and operated by a team at scale, and you have plenty of stories to tell us about this
Are great listeners and facilitators who can create consensus across the team and incorporate their teams input in the overall direction of the product and system
Have a deep understanding of fullstack software development lifecycle, devops methodologies, testing, and tooling at scale
For this role specifically we are looking for someone with deep knowledge of AdTech and the industry. DSP, SSP, CDP, VPAID, VAST, FAST, OTT and other various AdTech acronyms should be common knowledge to you. You should have familiarity with topics across the AdTech stack, e.g. viewability, programmatic, third party tags, OpenRTB and the like.

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. We also offer a robust mental wellbeing program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

Our people are at the heart of what we do and the driving force behind our growth and success. We value individuality and understand the importance of building a workplace where everyone can truly belong.

We believe that supporting everyone to be their full selves helps them to reach their potential, that's why we offer competitive benefits, perks and learning opportunities.

We have employee resource groups in place for mental health and DEI helping to ensure everyone can truly be 'SuperAwesome', helping us to build a safer internet for the next gene