Technical Director

As a person, you are an exceptional team player, with coaching skills combined with passion for software development and quality. You thrive in a flexible and fluid environment where the job will evolve over time. You put quality first in your work and are able to guide the dev teams in the same direction. Your technical skills are outstanding, and you thrive on complex problems.

MS in Computer Science or equivalent technical education

Long experience on software development and previous tech leadership experience

A successful track record of development and architecture of Game related SDKs and Frameworks

Understand the domain of building software for other developers

Solid C++ and mobile experience. We expect you to be working hands on with the teams on occasion to keep in touch with the code base

Professional experience with leading projects from start to finish

Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work effectively in distributed team environments

Self-starter and proactive You will among other things

Be responsible for defining, agreeing and implementing the technical roadmap for the SDK

Assess technical risk and mitigation plans; involved in incident management

Articulate and drive key technical decisions, inside your team and with external stakeholders

Understand our technical debt and prioritize its backlog

Be responsible for technical leadership for the SDK, making sure the SDK adopts the best-fit technology aligned with Kings overall technical strategy

Work closely with our Product Owners and tech leaders

Champion, and coach the teams in using, modern development practices: Code reviews, pair programming, clean code, test automation, refactoring and sustainable management of technical debt

Work with the King technology stack in mind, collaborate with the other TDs on the greater good

Be a technical point of contact; represent the SDK on technical matters

Bring industry knowledge of best practice to the teams to aid productivity and quality

Evaluate new technologies and how they integrate into our evolving platform

Understand, prioritise and surface technical concerns from the development teams

Understand and be able to explain to non-technical people how the parts of King’s tech stack interact and what the implications of technical decisions will be Officially, we’re a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that’s not afraid to have fun. Every day at King, we mix intuition with logic, art with science and magic with mathematics to create the games the world loves to play. Together with our parent company Activision Blizzard, our mission is to bring moments of magic to everyday life. If you think this is something you can help us achieve, let’s talk.