Company Description
Arcanix is a LiveOps strategy platform for video game publishers.

Founded by games industry veterans, Arcanix is a small but growing team on a mission to solve one of the toughest challenges in modern game development. This is a great time to get involved—it’s an opportunity to join an early-stage startup where your contributions will have real impact, your voice will be heard, and you’ll help shape both the product and the company as we scale.

Job Description
This is a role for someone with commercial experience of full stack development for Software as a Service, and large language model frameworks and generative AI, as well as leading a development team and defining technical strategy. Depending on your experience level, this role can adapt to either a CTO, or senior developer position.

The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about the potential of AI, and who is looking for a position in a small team where their work can have a profound impact on the project and where they can be fundamentally involved in the creation of a new generative AI application. As we all work from home, you need to be great at communication and self-disciplined. Your role will be to lead a small but growing development team as well as getting hands on with development yourself, across the development of the SaaS platform, and the ML/AI R&D work. 

You will be working from home, but you must be able to come to meetings regularly and depending on how far away you live, you may need to be available to stay overnight.

Your responsibilities will be varied, but will include:

• Lead a small, growing development team working on a web-based SaaS platform, including working on the development of the platform yourself, and in particular ensure stability and scalability of the solution
• Build on our existing R&D to develop a Large Language Model Generative AI (LLM GenAI) solution that can enhance the delivery of great player experiences in consumer content experiences including games, and can leverage anonymised multiple unstructured external data sources building
• Undertake R&D into generative AI systems to drive recommendations, create content and identify effective markers to drive the generative AI
• Lead technical support and triaging during testing and release
• Use a ‘fail fast’ and ‘ship it’ approach, with rapid testing and iteration and structure your documentation approach and code in a way that enables this
• Work closely with the Product Owner to identify and deliver optimal solutions to user experience requirements
• Define technical strategy, requirements and approaches along with management team
• Write and maintain technical documentation
• Contribute to, and deliver against strategic priorities
• Provide insight and feedback that contributes to the effective delivery of the solution
• Have a problem solving, systems thinking, audience led approach to your work
• Collaborate with other team members and communicate your ideas effectively

Qualifications

You must:

• Have experience managing a team of developers
• Have experience defining technical specifications, strategy and delivering against them
• Have demonstrable experience of full stack web development in a commercial environment, on SaaS, to a high quality
• Demonstrate understanding of, passion for, and ability to deliver high quality, beautiful user experiences
• Have experience, passion for and strong skills in prototyping that let you deliver and iterate quickly
• Have demonstrable experience of setting up large language model frameworks in a commercial environment
• Have demonstrable experience of working on R&D projects
• Have demonstrable experience taking data from multiple sources
• Demonstrate understanding of, passion for, and ability to deliver generative AI solutions that empower users
• Have experience, passion for and strong skills in prototyping that let you deliver and iterate quickly
• Ability to communicate confidently and effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Collaborative approach to work
• Confident working in a fast-paced environment and able to react positively to change
• Fluency in spoken and written English
• Able to think out of the box, good at problem-solving and systems thinking

It would also be great if you have some of the following:

• Understanding of video game development or video games industry
• Have been in a CTO or senior role within a SaaS business

Additional information

• Start date: To be agreed
• Hours: Full time, with flexible working arrangements
• Location: Work from home with in person meetings as required
• Please note that you must be resident in Belgium