AWS Jobs at Aradena: Battlegrounds

About Us:

We are a new and rapidly growing blockchain gaming start-up. Our mission is to build a play-and-earn, NFT-based gaming system that appeals to both traditional gamers and blockchain gamers.

The first phase of the project currently in development focuses on a TCG turn-based strategy game that takes inspiration from games such as Hearthstone, Civilization, and Warhammer Underworlds. Our mission is to create unique gameplay that combines strategic battles with deep army building and to provide players with the option of decentralised ownership and blockchain rewards.

We have already released our first NFT collection of medieval warriors on the Ethereum blockchain. This sold out in 13 minutes. Since then, we have raised investment from leading VCs within the blockchain and gaming industries, finished pre-production, and begun development.

About The Role:

The purpose of this role is to take full ownership and accountability for all of our gaming and blockchain technology, architecture, and tech processes across multiple sites and products. The individual must have an understanding of game development, and blockchain development, and a strong background in software development leadership positions delivering complex and live services. The right candidate will be rewarded very well with a great salary, as well as extremely lucrative equity and tokenomics incentives. This is a remote-working role.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Full accountability for all software architecture and tech processes
• Overseeing game integration onto a blockchain
• Daily management of software and web3 development teams and ensuring that development suits required timeframes and roadmaps and assisting with consistently hitting sprint goals
• Champion sound, actionable, technical solutions required to provide a high-quality experience to our players
• Lead the design of software solutions to identify potential problems in advanced, and guide the maintenance of legacy software (bug fixing process, initiate requests for enhancement, etc)
• Provide full support to teams when technical challenges are encountered to ensure any potential barriers in the development process are overcome
• Quality checking code, internally logging and managing code bases making sure it’s clean and can be well read
• Consistently improving efficiency by planning tool development, driving communication across all teams and disciplines, and coordinating engineering plans
• Assisting with DevOps and improving existing software
• Hands-on coding when required
• Maintain a broad view of emerging and innovative technologies and developments
• Cloud management (AWS)
• Company cyber security management
• Hiring and team building of internal development team
• Technical roadmap ownership
• Tracking the performance of all technology and development

Requirements:

• Highly experienced within leadership positions in software development with a core focus on complex, high-traffic, scalable, and live services
• Expert with cloud services focused on security (AWS)
• Experience with blockchain development and smart contract language (solidity)
• Experience in managing code bases
• High energy, motivated, and a driven self-starter who takes the initiative and does not require micromanagement
• Hands-on and able to get things done themselves like coding, checking developer work, auditing, writing specs, planning, research
• A great problem solver and solution architect
• Strong ability to manage both in-house and outsourced development teams
• Excellent organisation and project management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with recruitment
• Ideally, experience in the DeFi/NFT space
• Ideally, a passion for gaming and the medieval fantasy genre
• Ideally knowledge of online/multiplayer gaming

Benefits of Working at Aradena:

• Dynamic and multicultural work environment with nationalities from all over the world
• Token incentive schemes
• Flat company structure: your ideas get heard by the right people very quickly