Technical Director [mobile games]

This position is located in El Segundo, CA. Relocation assistance provided for qualified candidates

FUN-GI designs and publishes fun games for growing brands. Innovation is how we create genre-defining content, and savvy marketing is how we scale to audiences of critical mass.

Our current title is House Flip, a top-ranked game in the Apple App Store and Google Play rated at 4.6-stars with 200,000+ reviews. We’re currently seeking a Technical Director with experience servicing great games while leading ambitious teams, and who fundamentally cares about philosophy of building with purpose, fun, and design.

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Flexible schedule
• Professional development assistance

Responsibilities:

• Push software development to execute elegant and scalable code that stretches the limits of game designs
• Mentor and manage a team of engineers to develop timeframes, improve dependencies, and lead best practices in code review
• Nurture and guide the technical quality of project milestones while persistently assessing emerging technologies
• Define variables, constraints, and outputs for technical and game design roadmaps in achieving innovative objectives with quality and speed
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers in extending the toolset
• Architect strategies for networking, peer-to-peer gameplay, structured databases, and API integrations
• Partner with game designers, marketers, UX/UI artists, and illustrators in creating fun game mechanics

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Mathematics
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years of software development experience in Unity and C#
• 2+ years servicing lives ops on games and/or updates for iOS and Androi
• 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams
• Experience and curiosity in multiple areas of game development (e.g. UI, server technology, tools, etc.)
• Experience defining and leading platform initiatives
• Experience in working in large and varied code bases (SDKs/APIs/Libraries/Plugins)
• Excellent objected oriented skills coding for performance and reliability at scale
• Efficient time management and proven ability to estimate time needed for engineering task completion
• Strong communication skills and willingness to voice opinion
• Insist on the highest standards from one’s self and team
• Love for making video games

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (Firebase, Big Query, Datastore, App Engine)
• Experience developing and debugging asynchronous and multi-threaded code
• Scripting skills in Python, Perl, Shell, or another common language
• Experience with database design and SQL
• Experience with Linux/Unix commands

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Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $120,000.00 to $150,000.00 /year

Experience:

• C#: 2 years (Required)
• Engineering: 3 years (Required)
• managing engineering teams: 1 year (Required)
• servicing lives ops on games and/or updates (iOS & Android): 1 year (Required)
• Unity: 3 years (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Required)

Job distance:

• Austin, TX: Between 31 and 40 miles (Preferred)