Engineering at ATA

Department organization

Our software development engineering teams are structured for the following streams of work:

• Live Operations: Running games and services in production
• Infrastructure & Tools: Pipelines, containers, and tools
• New Games: Discovery, prototyping, validation, development

A mix of generalists and specialists

We hire full-stack generalist programmers, but it's common for folks to gravitate towards a specialization. An engineer will typically start in Live Operations where they are familiarized with the technologies, services, and processes. From there, they might choose to specialize in a particular area or move to a new game team.

Specializations

• Live operations / Site reliability
• Unity prototyping and rapid game development
• Unity optimization
• Full-stack feature development
• Build & Release automation
• Event-driven architectures
• Reactive architectures
• Infrastructure & cloud engineering
• Data analytics and insight generation
• Web development

Our tech stack

Client development is in Unity (C#), but we also support a number of games made in native iOS (Objective C) and Android (Java). On the backend, we build Python-powered microservices, in both request-response and event-driven architectures, using a variety of popular frameworks (Django, FastAPI). Our CI pipeline was established over ten years ago and facilitates dozens of deployments each day.