Lead Python Developer

Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore is a part of the leading free-to-play MMO game developer and publisher, with over 65 million subscribers and multiple studios worldwide.  We are looking for the right individuals to join us and help deliver great user experiences in both our highly-successful current game, World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition, as well as our upcoming projects.

We are looking for a Lead Python Engineer capable of leading our effort to build an exceptional web service platform. If you’re an experienced engineering lead who’s excited about games, and excited about working in a creative environment with new technologies and innovating to solve problems, this could be the perfect role for you.

Your challenges

• Motivate, mentor and manage a team of web engineers to ensure on-time delivery of back-end features.
• Collaborate and communicate with web services team and others in order to deliver the best online experience to our players.
• Design and develop game infrastructure services.
• Create and maintain multiple complex high-load applications.
• Manage front and/or back-end tasks.
• Collaborate with game developers on projects that work between game servers and Web products. 

What you need:

• Proven ability to lead a small to mid-sized team of software engineers.
• Web development experience - 5+ years working with web-based applications.  Professional Python development experience required.
• Solid SQL knowledge – Demonstrated RDBMS experience (preferably MySQL or PostgreSQL). You have the ability to design effective data storage for the task at hand, and know how to optimize query performance along the way.
• Web server excellence – preferably using Apache and Nginx.
• Linux expertise - with a BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Even better if you have:

• Django Framework experience
• Twisted experience
• Memcached and RabbitMQ
• High-load experience