Job Overview/About Company:
Company: A reputable US Software Company
Salary Range: $2000 - $3500 USD Net per month
As a Technical Director, you will drive technical planning and execution on a cross-functional development team to build, launch, and support AAA mobile games. You will lead the engineering component of the team and provide direction to senior technical leads. In this key leadership role, you will work closely with other product leaders and technical partners as the technical subject matter expert for the team. Technical Directors balance strategic and tactical direction to deliver and maintain stable, scalable, cost-effective games with focused innovations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Set project technical standards and policies, define high-level architecture, processes and tools, and technical budgets
- Accountable for the games technical design and implementation. Through production and support as a live service
- Monitor and troubleshoot live service issues.
- Ensure the quality, performance, and stability of technical deliverables meet commitments - Improve team efficiency through identifying bottlenecks and proposing solutions - Identify and manage technical dependencies and risks
- Continuously review code, technical documentation and coding standards of the team - Collaborate and manage partnerships with internal and external technical partners - Implement and run release management for a live service
- Work as part of the product leadership team: - Understand and help define the product vision and business needs
- Represent the project and team to stakeholders
- Balance technical, product, and business requirements with successful outcomes - Empower and manage expectations for production & design
- Partner with Development Directors on development processes and project planning
- Conduct research necessary to achieve desired outcomes and evolve our technology
Job Requirements:
- 10+ years software development experience
- 5+ years of technical leadership experience
- Deep knowledge of one of the following languages: C++/C#/Java
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- Leadership experience developing and launching games or running a large-scale live service
- Solid knowledge of game application technology, spanning client, server and infrastructure
- Strong negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution skills
- Advantages:
- Familiarity with the following languages: Unity, Python, AWS
- Expertise in iOS and Android platform development
- Prior experience with mobile development
- Distributed systems experience
- Experience working with remote teams and partners