Technical Director - Tools

Respawn Entertainment is seeking a Technical Director - Tools for Apex Legends. This role involves providing leadership and technical direction for tools, pipelines, and workflows. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, balancing technical and project goals, partnering with other disciplines, ensuring code quality, and managing technical dependencies and risks. The director will spend 80% on strategic leadership and 20% on hands-on tool development, contributing to groundbreaking games with creative freedom.

Must Have

• Distill Apex and Respawn goals into tools, pipelines, and workflows team goals and achieve them.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to tools engineers.
• Balance technical and project long-term goals and vision.
• Partner with other disciplines on requirements, priorities and planning.
• Guide a partner-centric engineering culture of empowering content creators.
• Collaborate on performance management, retention & hiring.
• Collaborate with other technical directors on Apex's short and long-term technical direction.
• Collaborate with technical art directors to partner on efforts in the tools and technical art spaces.
• Provide technical direction for Apex tools engineering.
• Promote good engineering practices and ensure compliance with standards.
• Ensure code quality, performance, usability, and stability of tools, workflows, and pipelines.
• Approve technical design documents and provide code and script review feedback.
• Manage technical dependencies and risks.
• Manage technical partnerships within Apex and across Respawn/EA.
• Spend roughly 80% of time on strategic and leadership work.
• Spend 20% of your time devoted to hands-on tool development.

Perks & Benefits

• Paid time off (3 weeks per year to start)
• 80 hours per year of sick time
• 16 paid company holidays per year
• 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k) (US)
• Vacation (3 weeks per year to start, British Columbia)
• 10 days per year of sick time (British Columbia)
• Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (British Columbia)
• Extended health/dental/vision coverage (British Columbia)
• Retirement plan (British Columbia)
• Bonus and equity eligibility (certain roles)

Founded in 2010, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when accomplished people have creative freedom, they'll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected.

Respawn Entertainment is the Academy Award-winning studio behind critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends, Titanfall, Titanfall 2, Star Wars™ Jedi: Fallen Order, Star Wars™ Jedi: Survivor, and Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. As a collective of creative developers, we have launched some of the industry's most critically and commercially successful games. We love what we do and want to share our passion with players worldwide.

Join us for the opportunity to create groundbreaking games with some of the best developer talents in the industry.

Reporting to a Principal Technical Director you will provide Leadership and Technical Direction:

Leadership Responsibilities

• Distill Apex and Respawn goals into tools, pipelines, and workflows team goals and achieve them.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to tools engineers.
• Balance technical and project long-term goals and vision.
• Partner with other disciplines on requirements, priorities and planning.
• Guide a partner-centric engineering culture of empowering content creators.
• Collaborate on performance management, retention & hiring.
• Collaborate with other technical directors on Apex's short and long-term technical direction.
• Collaborate with technical art directors to partner on efforts in the tools and technical art spaces.

Technical Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for Apex tools engineering.
• Promote good engineering practices and ensure compliance with standards.
• Ensure code quality, performance, usability, and stability of tools, workflows, and pipelines.
• Approve technical design documents and provide code and script review feedback.
• Manage technical dependencies and risks.
• Manage technical partnerships within Apex and across Respawn/EA.
• Spend roughly 80% of time on strategic and leadership work with 20% of your time devoted to hands on tool development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with an emphasis on tools/pipelines.
• Shipped multiplayer AAA titles on multiple generations of hardware platforms.
• Experience working on large-scale Live Services title.
• 5+ years of leadership experience.
• Experience with large code bases, legacy code bases, industry standard tool sets and workflows.
• Advanced C/C++ skills.
• C# skills.

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$138,700 - $199,900 CAD
• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) *$160,600 - $249,300 USD

In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

In British Columbia, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.