Technical Director

Role overview

Team leadership

• Oversee engineering recruitment, onboarding, and performance management.
• Guide and mentor engineers and support their professional growth.
• Foster a collaborative and productive team environment.

Technical delivery

• Communicate engineering progress, challenges, and solutions to stakeholders.
• Oversee game client/server technology, development roadmaps, and live operations for cross-platform products.
• Lead game software design and development, including architecture that can extend across projects.
• Contribute to major feature design, technology budgeting, scheduling, and project dependency analysis.
• Identify development bottlenecks and coordinate solutions across disciplines and projects.
• Manage technical debt and mitigate risks to support efficient development and a sustainable codebase.

Experience and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading mobile or video game technical development and at least two shipped large-scale game titles.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in a similar capacity, including 5+ years in technical leadership; game-industry experience is preferred.
• Experience with a game engine such as Unity3D, Unreal, Frostbite, or another engine.
• People management experience, including developing team members’ careers.
• Experience building and running highly scalable applications.
• Game development experience on mobile, iOS, Android, PC, or console platforms.
• Knowledge of platform- and device-specific issues and ability to implement solutions.

Benefits and support

• Benefits include extended health coverage, flexible spending accounts, RRSP matching, commuter support, paid time off, parental leave, employee assistance, virtual health, and learning support.

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