Software Architect
Paramount Pictures
Apply to join our new platform initiative and take ownership of building a centralized performance testing automation platform for games development. In this role, you will collaborate with developers, designers, and QA teams to design and deliver a unified system that aggregates performance data from multiple game engines, processes results, and clearly highlights performance issues.
You will play a key role in defining the software architecture, database schemas, and overall system experience, while helping to track and visualize optimization progress over time. As this is a brand‑new platform with no prior internal equivalent, you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape its foundations and influence how performance testing is approached across our game development teams.
Whatwill youdo:
- Lead architecture and evolution of frontend & backend services, integrations and data flow for a platform supporting gaming department,
- Drive system design reviews and enforce coding standards,
- Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and tools,
- Ensure performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security of the platform,
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and trade-offs early in the development lifecycle,
- Create and maintain architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical roadmaps
- Stay hands‑on by contributing to application development when needed,
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Software Engineers, Game Developers, DevOps and UI/UX designers,
- Mentor engineers and propagate best practices across teams.
We are looking for Engineer that:
- Isself‑reliant and can take responsibility for futuredeliverables,
- Values collaboration, knowledge sharing, and contributing to the team's overall effectiveness,
- Staysup to datewith modern technologies,
- Wants to actively participate in product and technical decision making,
- UnderstandsDevOps practices and infrastructure automation,
- Enjoysworking in a team,
- Easily and openly communicates in English,
- Bonus: has experience with platforms and tools used in gaming industry.
And on the technical side, we need:
- 8+ years of experience in software development,
- 2+ years in a similar role making architectural decisions,
- Proven experience building and scaling platform-level products,
- Strong understanding of C4 model (or similar architecture frameworks),
- Good understanding of cloud platforms, version control, automation, monitoring, analytics, containerization, distributed systems & scalability.
Weoffer:
- Employmentcontract,
- Access to e-learning and self-development platforms,
- Officelibrary,
- Weparticipatein and speak at conferences, also join/ run publicmeet-ups,
- In-house activities: tech talks, hackathons,
- You can use 10% of your working time to pursue your personal development, and side projects,
- Active global inclusion and CSR groups,
- Welllocated, modern office with lots of amenities – adjustable desks, electronics toolkit, 3D printer ready for you to use, pool table, console, table tennis, massage chair.
Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.
At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.
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