Game Technical Director

6 Months ago • 10 Years + • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

Lead technical development for mobile games at Kabam. Must have 10+ years of experience in game development with expertise in C# and Unity/Unreal Engine. Experience shipping multiple titles and a strong understanding of mobile game trends are essential.
Must have:
  • C# Experience
  • Unity/Unreal
  • Game Development
  • Mobile Games
Good to have:
  • Android/iOS Dev
  • Agile/Kanban
  • Technical Design
  • Performance Analysis
Perks:
  • Diverse Workplace
  • Fun-loving Culture

Job Details

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. 

The Game Technical Director is responsible for providing hands-on technical leadership and project oversight throughout the full game development lifecycle. This role will spearhead the engineering team in building, optimizing, and maintaining high-quality mobile games, in close collaboration with the game's executive producer and key stakeholders.

In this role, you can expect to be involved in:

    • Communication and Project Updates:
    • Establish regular, transparent communication channels to provide stakeholders with comprehensive updates on project engineering, including in-depth details on client/server architecture, the evolving development roadmap, and live ops status across platforms.
    • Proactively surface technical challenges and roadblocks, presenting potential solutions and risk mitigation strategies to stakeholders.

    • Technical Design and Development:
    • Spearhead the technical design and development of game software, ensuring a scalable and extensible architecture that can support current and future projects.
    • Work in close partnership with key stakeholders to inform the design of major game features, technology budgeting, scheduling, and whole-project dependency analysis.
    • Take a proactive, solution-oriented approach to resolving bottlenecks through effective coordination with teams and stakeholders.
    • Collaborate with teams to identify, assess, and mitigate technical debt risks, ensuring a sustainable and maintainable codebase for long-term project health.
    • Define and refine tech team process and structure with strong KPI index to drive continuous development improvement and direction.

    • Hands-On Software Development:
    • Lead by example, actively contributing to the design, coding, testing, and debugging of complex software applications and components.
    • Work closely with cross-functional teams to gather and refine requirements, translating them into detailed technical specifications.
    • Establish and enforce coding standards and best practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable code.
    • Drive iterative software improvement through rigorous testing, performance analysis, and feedback integration.

    • Provide Mentorship and Guidance:
    • Share knowledge, best practices, and industry trends with team engineers to foster their learning and development.
    • Cultivate a learning-first culture and support the growth of direct reports accordingly through constructive feedback and suggestions to team engineers.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
    • Expert-level experience with C#.
    • 10+ years of experience in software development, preferably in gaming.
    • Shipped multiple titles starting from the prototype stage (on Console, PC, or Mobile).
    • Professional proficiency with either unity or unreal game engines.
    • Ability to write clean, simple, well-documented code from design requirements.
    • Proven track record of working independently and collaboratively in a dynamic team setting.
    • Strong experience in Android / iOS Mobile / Console application development.
    • Up-to-date knowledge of the latest mobile gaming trends.
    • Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical team members.
    • Experience working in Agile, Kanban, or similar project management methodologies.
Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.

We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!

About Kabam

Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.

Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.

Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.

Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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