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

• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role with current technical experience
• Demonstrated experience in running Scrum or other agile rituals
• Demonstrated experience in delivering mobile applications to market, working with both Android (Google Play) and iOS (Apple Store) delivery
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• In-depth technical experience in React Native and React
• Professional experience with Typescript
• Professional experience working with NodeJS, SQL (MySQL or PostgreSQL) and MongoDB
• Experience with writing automated tests (e.g. Jest, Cypress, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, tape)
• Experience using Git in a professional/workplace environment
• A solid understanding in core mobile concepts
• A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts.
• 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
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Share our values, and motivate the team to be aligned with those values

• Manage a team of engineers.
• Help your engineers grow their skills and experience
• Run agile (Scrum) project management processes
• Own the delivery of the Repeat mobile app to market
• Provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions, product architecture, and other areas
• Maintain empathy for the team by keeping awareness of engineering processes and practices. Examples might be: evaluating individual workflow during one on ones, conducting code reviews, or working on non-critical path bugs and/or features
• Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train the team to do technical interviews
• Generate and implement process improvements
• Hold regular 1:1s with all members of their team
• Give regular and clear feedback around the individual’s performance
• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary
• Improve product quality, security, and performance
• May have more than one specialty on their team, per our shared domain concept
• Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for Repeat are met, by working with support team members and development team members.
• Develop features and improvements to the Repeat product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• You’ll work with Product Management and other stakeholders (Backend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features within the Repeat product.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• You’ll help improve the overall experience of our product through improving the quality of the features both in your group and features that benefit other groups.
• You’ll help identify areas of improvements in the code base, both specific to your group and outside your group (eg. component library) and help contribute to make it better
• You’ll learn, collaborate and mentor other Software Engineers. Everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they’ve been in the industry.
• Help to triage bugs and work with others to determine priority, and then work with the team to have them successfully resolved
• You’ll contribute to and follow our workflow process, alongside the rest of the Software Engineers and the Repeat community as a whole.