Director of Technology

Fun Dog Studios is a new employee-owned indie studio composed of ex-AAA game developers with a united mission to game development and publishing: making games we want to play for customers with transparency and respectful monetization practices. This mission has resonated with customers as our first title, The Forever Winter, has been a top-seller on Steam in its early days, engaging hundreds of thousands of “scav” players around the world.

We are seeking a Director of Technology to join our team. The ideal candidate is an experienced Engineer leader for AAA/AA games. This is a full-time remote position. This position will also be eligible to receive equity in our fast-growing studio.

Responsibilities

• Oversees the entirety of all engineering efforts and manages a team of engineers to ensure the successful implementation of gameplay and system features from prototype to final product.
• Create, review, and maintain an engineering vision with the team and key stakeholders
• Creates, supervises and maintains both player facing and back-end systems technical architecture for game development.
• Assesses technical risks and helps create mitigation strategies to ensure development goals can be achieved within time constraints and budgets.
• Works closely with design, art, audio and production teams to facilitate pipeline and architecture setups that allow for rapid iteration game development.
• Own the technical direction and implementation of the game. Improve performance, maintain reliability, and ensure scalability of the game throughout its lifecycle
• Lead, grow, and coach team members to build talent over the long term
• Identify, recruit, interview, and hire software engineers to help the team scale effectively
• Demonstrate a high bar of craft excellence for the team
• Update and maintain build pipeline
• Partner with design and creative directors to help establish deliverables and timelines for the engineering team to ensure that the team is delivering in a consistent, predictable, and sustainable manner

Requirements

• 10 years experience shipping titles
• Comfortable working directly with designers in an iterative environment
• Strong Modern C development skills
• Strong communication and teamwork skills

Preferences

• Previous work on shipped Shooter titles
• Experience with Jenkins, AWS, and Perforce
• Extensive Unreal Engine 4/5 experience