Jobs at Derivco

Derivco Cape Town is looking for a Software Developer Team Lead to manage a cross-functional team within our Half Pixel Studio. This is a great challenge for someone who has a detailed understanding of the SDLC, is passionate about leading people within an agile work environment and can execute on the vision and direction of the Head of Studio.

This role entails facilitating and guiding the studio’s development and testing team to ensure they successfully achieve business objectives by consistently delivering enjoyable, high quality games.

Now let’s see if you have what it takes…

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Monitor and manage the team’s performance on an ongoing basis. Lead the team towards meeting goals against the agreed upon roadmap. Drive a PDP (Personal Development Plan) for each team member, and ensure the team is appropriately resourced. Provide opportunities for coaching and/or mentoring for team members. Effectively onboard new starts in the business area and team. Facilitate change management within the team.

Stakeholder Focus

• Build and manage strong relationships with various stakeholders to understand the stakeholders’ objectives to meet studio goals. Ensure that all escalated issues are handled effectively within the agreed SLA’s.

Strategy

• Work towards achieving the business strategy by identifying and resolving risks, as well as creating and executing product, technical and operation strategies that align to the business strategy.

Operational Management

• Facilitate continuous product and delivery performance improvements by ensuring processes and procedures are followed, and regularly reviewed to identify opportunities/risks. Collaborate with respective teams to prioritise and plan on ways to meet objectives. Immersion in the relevant and current technology stack whilst staying on the forefront of industry innovation.

Product Ownership

• Owns product(s), ensures product relevance and focus on quality delivery. Maintain the technical understanding and in-depth knowledge of the product in order to report and analyse the relevant performance metrics.

Required Skills

And Experience

• Qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience
• Advanced programming experience in JavaScript and TypeScript
  • Advantageous: C#, Java, Unity, HTML5, etc.
• In-depth understanding of development techniques, principles, and design principles
• Excellent understanding of the SDLC
• Strong leadership ability
• High technical aptitude
• Strategic and commercial mindset
• Proven product/project delivery experience
• Stakeholder management
• Solid agile understanding and experience
• Outstanding communication skills
• Extreme accountability and ownership
• Ability to effectively collaborate with team and stakeholders
• Excellent decision making and problem-solving skills

Behavioural Competencies

• Adaptably Resilient
• Collaborative Relationships
• Communicates and Influences Effectively
• Develops Talent
• Drives Results
• Resourceful and Improving
• Strategic Mindset
• Decision-making Quality

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Portfolio is an established team of experienced and diverse business experts who are passionate about creating legendary gaming experiences. We manage and curates the largest portfolio of games, playing a crucial role in expanding and protecting our global footprint by ensuring our best games meet regulatory, technology, operator and player requirements whilst retaining brand integrity that has stood the test of time. Our focus areas have expanded to include Game Design; responsible for evolving the product portfolio by way of introducing new and known game mechanics in compelling and innovative ways that will attract and entertain an even wider player audience.

In modifying and improving math of our existing library of games to support these product strategies the game design mathematician will be required to design and create new game experiences in a participative environment, collaborating with product owners, artists, software development and marketing teams to build and guide the player experience, trouble shoot implementation where necessary and provide support to math queries from concept through to launch.

Key responsibilities include creating statistical models to understand expected value, standard deviation and probability distribution of different game events and where science meets art - balancing the player experience to ensure the game creates excitement and entertainment for our players.

You will have the support of a network of like-minded people, the core Game Intelligence team of ‘Mathletes’, as you grow your game design craft and exposure across all parts of business to exponentially grow your career with Portfolio. This is an amazing opportunity to join our experienced team of creative, business and technical experts to be part of creating Portfolio’s next chapter and is one that shouldn’t be missed. Game on?

Key Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, design, develop and verify mathematical models for games
• Collaborate with team of experts to refine commercial game concepts
• Partner with software teams to guide the math implementation and player experience,
• Identify opportunities and industry trends to innovate and improve product design
• Research & develop new tools and processes
• Provide Support for Mathematical Queries
• Monitoring game performance in the market to provide customer insight.

Key Requirements

• Post-graduate degree in math, stats, physics or computer science with 75% aggregate or more
• Advanced mathematical and problem solving skills
• Experience with mathematical and statistical modelling
• Microsoft Excel, XML, coding in C#
• Domain and product knowledge is advantageous
• Communication Skills
• Team Player

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The New Product team has defined its own culture through the people that have joined over time. We value treating one another with kindness and respect, and rely on trust to define our boundaries instead of setting rigid rules. Each team member is here to improve themselves and the products they are working on, while taking personal responsibility of their work and actions to meet the team’s ultimate goals.

If you consider yourself to be highly innovative and interested in creating unique games, then we are your team!

Key Responsibilities

Develop and Maintain Software

• Acquire and maintain in-depth knowledge of the product. Provide technical mentorship on the project complexity, scope and risk for the product. Analyse requirements and create an appropriate software design. Guide team members with their requirement analysis and design. Collaborate with senior colleagues in creating and maintaining the team's SDLC. Communicate status and escalate on risks and issues timeously. Comprehensively create and maintain documentation of the software, system design and implementation. Create appropriate task estimates and review them with the team. Maintain, adhere to and oversee application of development and documentation standards, and team processes. Develop and release software to meet the defined specifications within the agreed time. Maintenance performed should not compromise the quality or functionality of the software.

Growth of People

• Agree to a technical coaching strategy with team leadership and play an active role in coaching. Take advantage of opportunities to provide technical help with the aim to upskill other team members.

Knowledge Sharing

• Proactively share knowledge about the operational environment. Readily share knowledge within the team and with key stakeholders.

Safeguarding Architecture

• Ensure the team's products use appropriate technologies while staying abreast of new technologies. Good understanding of the product lifecycle, including production environments and operational overheads. Seek to understand the business drivers for the team's products and ensures that the architectural vision and design solution align with these business drivers. Works with other senior developers and architects to create and maintain the architectural vision for the team's products.

Software Quality

• Actively drive the improvement of the team's quality standards and processes. Review and fix all defects found as per the defined quality standards. Facilitate team code reviews with the aim to improve the quality of the team's software and upskilling of other team members. Help others improve the quality of their work. Ensure software functions as per the defined specification. Take full ownership of quality by working with the QA team to ensure the test plans are of a high quality and cover the full scope of development. Test all changes made and ensure that existing functionality works as expected. Test software as per the team's software quality charter.

Support and Maintenance

• Provide effective and timely feedback on support issues. Provide support for product related issues in production with appropriate urgency, as well as support to dependent teams.

Required Skills

And Experience

• Minimum 3-year relevant qualification and at least 5 years software development experience OR Relevant 1-year certification and at least 7 years software development experience OR Minimum 8 years software development experience
• Coding experience in:
  • JavaScript ES5/ES6
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • C#
  • .Net
• Game and/or mobile development experience
• Productivity tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, TFS)
• Emulators/OS/Browser experience
• Solid experience in the SDLC process
• Active coaching experience
• Effective teamwork experience
• Strong technical abilities
• Understand/participate in Agile practices
• Excellent communication skills
• Innovative thinker
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment

Behavioural Competencies

• Adaptably Resilient
• Collaborative Relationships
• Communicates and Influences Effectively
• Develops Talent
• Drives Results
• Resourceful and Improving
• Strategic Mindset
• Decision-making Quality

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We are looking for a Software Developer Team Lead to manage a cross-functional team within the Games Enhance department. This is a great challenge for someone who has a detailed understanding of the SDLC, is passionate about leading people within an agile work environment and can execute on the vision and direction of stakeholders.

This role entails facilitating and guiding the department’s development and testing team to ensure they successfully achieve business objectives by consistently delivering cutting edge tools that will enable the business to reach its goals.

Now let’s see if you have what it takes…

Team Leadership

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor and manage the team’s performance on an ongoing basis. Lead the team towards meeting goals against the agreed upon roadmap. Drive a PDP (Personal Development Plan) for each team member, and ensure the team is appropriately resourced. Provide opportunities for coaching and/or mentoring for team members. Effectively onboard new starts in the business area and team. Facilitate change management within the team.

Stakeholder Focus

• Build and manage strong relationships with various stakeholders to understand the stakeholders’ objectives to meet department goals.
• Ensure that all escalated issues are handled effectively within the agreed SLA’s.

Strategy

• Work towards achieving the business strategy by identifying and resolving risks, as well as creating and executing product, technical and operation strategies that align to the business strategy.

Operational Management

• Facilitate continuous product and delivery performance improvements by ensuring processes and procedures are followed, and regularly reviewed to identify opportunities/risks.
• Collaborate with respective teams to prioritize and plan on ways to meet objectives. Immersion in the relevant and current technology stack whilst staying on the forefront of industry innovation.

Product Ownership

• Owns product(s), ensures product relevance and focus on quality delivery.
• Maintain the technical understanding and in-depth knowledge of the product in order to report and analyze the relevant performance metrics.

Required Skills

And Experience

• Qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience
• In-depth understanding of development techniques, principles, and design principles
• Excellent understanding of the SDLC
• Strong leadership ability
• High technical aptitude
• Strategic and commercial mindset
• Proven product/project delivery experience
• Stakeholder management
• Solid agile understanding and experience
• Outstanding communication skills
• Extreme accountability and ownership
• Ability to effectively collaborate with team and stakeholders
• Excellent decision making and problem-solving skills