Lead Developer in Barcelona

Join our dynamic and innovative team at Aristocrat as a Lead Developer, where you'll have the chance to create a significant impact! As part of our Montreal office, you'll lead an ambitious and hardworking group of engineers developing an exciting new mobile game. This role offers an outstanding blend of hands-on development and leadership responsibilities, allowing you to build the future of our core systems and features. We're committed to delivering outstanding gaming experiences to millions of players worldwide, and we need your proven experience to make it happen!

What You'll Do

• Write efficient, reusable, and maintainable code

• Provide technical analysis and documentation for new systems

• Mentor and guide game developers, offering technical direction and career development support

• Coordinate and negotiate with external team members across engineering, production, build, art, and QA

• Support sprint planning, technical prioritization, and roadmap execution

• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to standard practices

• Identify and mitigate technical risks throughout the development cycle

• Champion quality, scalability, and performance across all systems

• Partner with production to coordinate and deliver engineering deliverables on schedule

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in software development

• 2+ years in a leadership or management role

• B.S. or equivalent experience in Computer Science

• Experience with microservice architecture

• Proficiency in building CI/CD tools

• Strong communication and negotiation skills

• Excellent critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical abilities

• Dedication to streamlining development efforts and reducing Time to Market

• Ability to foster a positive and collaborative team culture

• Adaptability to respond quickly to changes in project scope, requirements, or market conditions

Why Product Madness?

As part of the Aristocrat family, we share their mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play, with a world-class team who creates top-grossing, leading titles in the social casino genre, including Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino. With 800 team members across the globe, Product Madness is headquartered in London, with offices in Barcelona, Gdańsk, Lviv, Montreal and a remote team spanning the USA, making us a truly global powerhouse.

We live by our People First principle. Regardless of where, when, or how they work, our team members have opportunities to elevate their careers, and grow alongside us. We take pride in fostering an inclusive culture, where our people are encouraged to be their very best, every day. But don’t just take our word for it. In 2024, we made the Global Inspiring Workplace Awards list, and won a bronze award at the Stevies for Great Employers in the ‘Employer of the Year - Media and Entertainment’ category.

Perks

- Health insurance - CIGNA
- Gympass gold plan
- 25 vacation days + 1 day on your birthday
- Flexible payment - daycare, transport, etc
- Pension plan 1% base salary
- Food at the office twice a week

So, what’s stopping you?

Our Values

• People First

  We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.

• MAD for More

  Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.

• Champion Together
  We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.

• Globally Inclusive

  We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.

• Customer Focused

  We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.

  Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!

Travel Expectations: None

Additional Information

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.