Kano

• Collaborate with the development team to design and implement game features and mechanics. • Develop and maintain complex game logic, backend systems, and server-side functionalities using PHP. • Actively utilize and experiment with AI tools (Claude, Codex, Cursor, LLMs) to accelerate refactoring, optimize legacy code, and increase development velocity. • Ensure high-quality code through code reviews, testing, and debugging. • Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements and project milestones. • Optimize data architecture and performance across both MongoDB and MySQL environments. • Optimize game performance for various platforms and devices. • Work closely with the design team to bring their ideas to life in the game. • Stay updated with industry trends, technologies, and AI-assisted engineering to improve game development processes.

• Drive Technical Excellence: Define and drive a studio‑wide program for quality, performance, and continuous improvement. Establish performance budgets, prevent regressions with automated checks, and improve DORA delivery metrics. • Lead Security and Privacy: Be the accountable owner for Security and Privacy. Keep us up to date and ahead of Platform Security requirements. • Manage Operations and Reliability: Lead the Operations team. Set Service Level Objectives with error budgets, design graceful degradation and failover, define on‑call and runbooks, and drive post‑incident reviews that deliver durable fixes. • Build Observability and Error Monitoring: Standardize logs, metrics, traces, and real‑time error and crash reporting across backend and clients. Create actionable, SLO‑based alerting and executive health dashboards. • Improve Developer Productivity and the Software Development Lifecycle: Level up CI/CD, branching strategy, and change control. Add quality gates, static analysis, secret scanning, SBOM and dependency management, and supply chain controls. • Drive FinOps: Own cloud budgets and forecasts. Improve commitment coverage, right‑size compute and storage. Report monthly on cost versus performance. • Lead Incidents and Risk: Act as incident commander for high‑severity issues. Run table‑tops, keep risks tracked with owners and dates, and prevent recurrences. • Mentor and Develop Leaders: Coach Tech Leads and senior ICs. Set expectations for design docs, code reviews, and outcomes. Build a culture of clear ownership and a bias toward delivering. • Partner Cross‑Functionally: Work with Product, Legal, Finance, and Player Success to align technical plans with business goals and regulatory needs. • Leverage AI as a force multiplier: Use AI to accelerate development and operations (code assist, test generation, incident triage, analytics). • Own SRED: Create an auditable process with eligibility gates in Jira, contemporaneous notes, and artifact capture. Partner with Finance for accurate, on‑time claims.

• Full-Stack Development & Delivery: Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain robust, high-availability, large-scale social and mobile game features in a fast-paced, agile development environment (Kanban/Scrum). • Performance Optimization: Take ownership of game performance optimization, dealing with issues like profiling, memory, CPU, and load times to ensure an amazing experience across millions of devices. • Infrastructure & Systems: Create and support robust underlying infrastructure and systems that the games team can lean on. • Collaboration & Expertise: Effectively collaborate with product, creative, and development teams (artists, designers, analysts) to plan and execute development and releases. Assert technical know-how to solve complex platform problems. • Code Quality & Best Practices: Write efficient, organized, and maintainable code within complex codebases. Contribute to best practices on performance, reliability, architecture, and modern software design principles. • Monitoring & Support: Monitor game dashboards, logs, and metrics to ensure the code is working seamlessly, ensuring our 24/7 player base can play uninterrupted and bug-free.