Technical Director

Crytek

| Frankfurt am Main, Germany (On Site) | Full Time | 3 months ago
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Job Summary

Crytek is seeking an experienced and ambitious Technical Director to join the Hunt: Showdown team. As part of the Core Leadership Team, the Technical Director will collaborate with the Game, Development, and Product Directors to drive the project's success. This role is responsible for the technical domain, defining and executing the game's technology strategy, ensuring efficient development pipelines, scalable architecture, and long-term maintainability. The Technical Director will align engineering efforts with creative and business goals, enabling high-quality production and seamless live operations. Responsibilities include driving technical vision, ensuring a scalable and maintainable technical stack, representing the technical domain in leadership discussions, shaping production processes, fostering partnerships across Crytek teams, leading engineering teams, and contributing to CryEngine evolution. The company offers comprehensive relocation support, including a budget, flights, visa assistance, and help settling in Germany, along with a company apartment, public transport pass, gym membership, German classes, and various company events.

Must Have

  • Shipped at least one AAA game in a technical leadership role
  • Deep knowledge of C++, systems programming and performance tuning
  • Deep understanding of NPC AI creation
  • BSc in Engineering or similar
  • Expertise in game architecture, tools/pipeline design, cloud services, and live systems
  • Proven leadership experience managing senior engineers and building strong tech teams
  • Excellent communicator, comfortable with strategic decision-making and hands-on technical involvement
  • Passionate about building great games, enabling developers, and delivering stable, high-quality live services

Good to Have

  • Experience with CRYENGINE
  • JavaScript

Perks & Benefits

  • Career Path
  • Relocation Support
  • Company Apartment
  • Public Transport Pass
  • Gym Card
  • State-of-the-art Office
  • International Environment
  • German Classes
  • Events
  • 24-28 vacation days per year

Job Description

Crytek have an exciting position for an experienced and ambitious Technical Director to join Hunt: showdown.

Joining the Core Leadership Team, the Technical Director collaborates closely with the Game Director, Development Director, and Product Director to collectively own and drive the project’s success. Within this team, the Technical Director is accountable for the technical domain—defining and executing the game’s technology strategy, ensuring efficient development pipelines, scalable architecture, and long-term maintainability. The Technical Director plays a critical role in aligning engineering efforts with creative and business goals, enabling high-quality production and seamless live operations.

Responsibilities

    • Drive the Technical Vision and strategy and Architecture
    • Ensure the technical stack is scalable, secure, maintainable, and future proof for ongoing updates.
    • Own the technical vision and architecture of the project
    • Represent the technical domain in the Core Leadership Team, co-owning the development and operation of the project.
    • Actively contribute to cross-discipline decision-making and long-term planning.
    • Collaborate closely with the Game, Development, and Product Directors to align technology with creative vision, player needs, and business goals.
    • Help shape and refine production processes, milestone plans, and organizational design to support team health and delivery success.
    • Foster a strong partnership across all Crytek teams ensuring technical requirements align with engine capabilities and strategic goals.
    • Act as a bridge between the game service team and the engine team to identify dependencies and collaborate on shared initiatives.
    • Build and lead a high-performing engineering team across disciplines (gameplay, tools, online, systems).
    • Define clear technical roles, growth paths, and engineering values within the team.
    • Hire, mentor, and retain top engineering talent, ensuring the team is resilient, motivated, and empowered.
    • Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
    • Ensure project needs are communicated and aligned with engine capabilities and roadmap.
    • Contribute feedback to CryEngine evolution that benefits the project and the studio at large.
    • Support knowledge-sharing and technical alignment across other Crytek projects.
    • Build and maintain systems that support frequent live updates, hotfixes, and content delivery.
    • Collaborate with operations and backend teams to ensure technical uptime, analytics integration, and support tooling.
    • Drive continuous improvement of the live game’s technical health and long-term maintainability.

Requirements

    • Shipped at least one AAA game in a technical leadership role, preferably from early development through live operations.
    • Deep knowledge of C++, systems programming and performance tuning.
    • Deep understanding of NPC AI creation.
    • BSc in Engineering or similar.
    • Expertise in game architecture, tools/pipeline design, cloud services, and live systems.
    • Proven leadership experience managing senior engineers and building strong tech teams.
    • Excellent communicator, comfortable with strategic decision-making and hands-on technical involvement.
    • Passionate about building great games, enabling developers, and delivering stable, high-quality live services. 

Pluses

    • Experience with CRYENGINE
    • JavaScript 
What you can expect from us

Career Path 
Your professional development is important to us, so we have laid out a career plan to help you progress towards your goals and objectives. 

Relocation Support 
We offer a relocation budget and full coverage of flights to Frankfurt for you and your family. 
You can expect extensive assistance with visa, work permits, and communication with authorities during the relocation process, as well as help settling into Germany (e.g. setting up appointments with banks, government agencies, schools, landlords, finding apartments etc.).

Company Apartment 
To help you get settled, we provide you with a fully furnished company apartment during your first three months in Frankfurt.

Public Transport Pass 
Discover Frankfurt by bus, tram and metro – free of charge.
 
Gym Card 
A healthy body is a healthy mind. We offer a membership at the premium gym chain Fitness First in Germany. Work out, join group fitness classes, or relax in the wellness facilities.

State-of-the-art Office
We’ve recently moved into a brand-new, modern office located in the heart of Frankfurt. Our new workspace is designed to inspire creativity and collaboration, with open areas, quiet zones, and top-tier facilities — all just steps away from public transport, restaurants, bars and cultural hotspots.
 
International Environment 
We truly embody diversity at Crytek. With employees from over 42 different countries, we define ourselves by our cultural diversity. 
 
German Classes 
Understanding the local culture will make your stay abroad more enjoyable, and Crytek supports that by offering German language courses for you and your family. 
  
Events
Join us on our exciting company events, including new starter breakfasts, summer and winter parties, our annual trip to Gamescom in Cologne, and many more!

Vacation Days 
At our Frankfurt office you can enjoy 24 days of vacation per year, and every 2 years you get 1 more (up to a maximum of 28 days). You will also have on average 10 public holidays on top of the days you take off.

8 Skills Required For This Role

Team Management Leadership Budget Management Oops Cpp Live Operations Cryengine Javascript