Blizzard Entertainment

Technical Lead, Principal

Blizzard Entertainment

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Work from Home • New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $146,000 - $270,004 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudDockerJavaKubernetesMicroservices

About the role

  • Lead technical strategy for the checkout roadmap, defining architecture for web, desktop, and in‑game purchasing.
  • Hands‑on development, including design, implementation, and ownership of high‑throughput, low‑latency transaction services.
  • Mentor & grow a team of engineers, guiding coding best practices, architecture reviews, and personal development.
  • Champion culture for the team and the larger department, embodying our mission and values through your everyday interactions.
  • Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Game Studios, and other stakeholders to ensure feature delivery aligned with business and user‑experience goals.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in Java
  • 3+ years professional experience of managing direct reports
  • Strong backend and API design experience; familiarity with HTTP, services at global scale, and transaction processing.
  • Skilled in cloud architecture, microservices, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor others, conduct architecture reviews, and help the team grow.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable navigating ambiguous, cross‑team initiatives.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
  • 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
  • Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
  • Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
  • If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Javabackend designAPI designtransaction processingcloud architecturemicroservicescontainersDockerKubernetesCI/CD
Soft skills
mentoringteam leadershipcommunicationcross-functional collaborationcoding best practicesarchitecture reviewspersonal developmentculture championnavigating ambiguitystakeholder engagement
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