REQUIREMENTS

• Action and self-starter mindset, proactive problem solver
• Bar raiser: you are never satisfied with the status quo and challenge yourself, your teams, and your peers
• 10+ years of experience in engineering with 5+ in Senior management roles
• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Director, CTO or Director of Engineering
• Proven leadership and “Manager of managers” experience with a team of 40+ engineers
• Experience in creating a tech strategy for a large software product
• Strong technical expertise and previous hands-on experience as a software engineer, preferably in large mobile products (iOS/Android native, C++/C#/Java/Scala). Nice to have: experience with complex in-house or Unity/Unreal game engines
  Note: we don’t expect you to write code, but you need to understand the whole system, be able to contribute to its design and architecture and evaluate your engineer’s decisions.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION

• We pay for participation in specialized conferences and courses and hold our own internal conferences.
• We offer discounts on English language courses and courses for the languages of the countries in which the company operates.

TEAM, ABOUT THE ROLE

We at Playrix are certain that our success results from our talented team’s efforts. Every day our programmers develop new features, events, and mechanics for our games, which are played by millions of people around the world.
We’re looking for a Technical Director to join one of our flagship products. You will lead a strong team of programmers and be responsible for the product’s technical development.
We value sharing best practices and mutual support within our teams. We pay great attention to code quality and reliability. We work with modern C++ standards, making the most of its capabilities.

TASKS

• Build a strong team to ensure high-performance and growth: hiring, coaching and mentoring, leading engineers and managers
• Implement and execute the tech roadmap of the mobile game product
• Ensure engineering excellence: analyze the tech, tools and practices efficiency, lead the initiatives to improve it
• Partner with Game Producers and Company-wide divisions to ensure the mobile game product quality and execute the game product roadmap