Technical Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Georgia, +5 more countries.

📋 Description

• Establish the technical vision for Bullet Echo and guide the architecture of the client, battle server, and backend systems.

• Advance the architecture and engineering methodologies of a well-established live product that features a substantial and intricate codebase.

• Take responsibility for the technical roadmap, ensuring engineering quality, managing technical debt, and addressing key technical risks.

• Assess product initiatives for their feasibility, cost, risks, time-to-market, and overall architectural implications.

• Prioritize technical tasks and manage engineering resources across product development, LiveOps, and technology advancements.

• Enhance engineering processes to streamline the development cycle from task initiation to production release.

• Promote the integration of AI-first engineering strategies throughout development and testing phases.

• Evaluate the technical team, identify growth opportunities, and contribute to the development of a robust engineering organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 1.5 years of experience in roles such as Technical Director, CTO, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or similar positions with substantial involvement in live game development.

• A solid foundation in C++ and experience with a large-scale production codebase within a live product environment.

• Proven experience in people management, including leading, developing, and assessing a technical team.

• Deep understanding of real-time multiplayer architecture, covering client/server interactions, synchronization, networking, and battle server functionalities.

• Strong knowledge of high-load backend architecture and distributed systems.

• Demonstrated success in enhancing engineering practices within an established team and legacy context, with quantifiable outcomes.

• Familiarity with LiveOps and production engineering, including software releases, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, hotfixes, and incident handling.

• Ability to define technical strategy and manage technical debt, architectural risks, and engineering manpower effectively.

• Substantial practical experience with AI-assisted or agentic software development and incorporating AI into team-wide engineering workflows.

• Strong sense of ownership and capability to independently establish technical direction and initiate change.

• Experience with custom game engines is a significant advantage.

• Proficiency in English and Russian is beneficial.

🏝️ Benefits

• A high degree of autonomy and ownership in your role.

• Strong company backing to implement meaningful changes and experiment with innovative approaches.

• An opportunity to reshape software development and testing around AI agents.

• The chance to determine the technical direction of Bullet Echo and influence the evolution of the product.