Game Technical Director

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Vancouver, BC
Hybrid
146K-182K Annually
7+ Years Experience
Gaming
The Role
The Game Technical Director at Kabam leads the engineering team in developing and optimizing mobile games. This role involves overseeing the technical design, project management, and performance analysis while providing mentorship to team engineers. The director will ensure effective communication with stakeholders and maintain a sustainable codebase throughout the game development lifecycle.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. 


The Game Technical Director is responsible for providing hands-on technical leadership and project oversight throughout the full game development lifecycle. This role will spearhead the engineering team in building, optimizing, and maintaining high-quality mobile games, in close collaboration with the game's executive producer and key stakeholders.

In this role, you can expect to be involved in:

  • Communication and Project Updates:
  • Establish regular, transparent communication channels to provide stakeholders with comprehensive updates on project engineering, including in-depth details on client/server architecture, the evolving development roadmap, and live ops status across platforms.
  • Proactively surface technical challenges and roadblocks, presenting potential solutions and risk mitigation strategies to stakeholders.

  • Technical Design and Development:
  • Spearhead the technical design and development of game software, ensuring a scalable and extensible architecture that can support current and future projects.
  • Work in close partnership with key stakeholders to inform the design of major game features, technology budgeting, scheduling, and whole-project dependency analysis.
  • Take a proactive, solution-oriented approach to resolving bottlenecks through effective coordination with teams and stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with teams to identify, assess, and mitigate technical debt risks, ensuring a sustainable and maintainable codebase for long-term project health.
  • Define and refine tech team process and structure with strong KPI index to drive continuous development improvement and direction.

  • Hands-On Software Development:
  • Lead by example, actively contributing to the design, coding, testing, and debugging of complex software applications and components.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to gather and refine requirements, translating them into detailed technical specifications.
  • Establish and enforce coding standards and best practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable code.
  • Drive iterative software improvement through rigorous testing, performance analysis, and feedback integration.

  • Provide Mentorship and Guidance:
  • Share knowledge, best practices, and industry trends with team engineers to foster their learning and development.
  • Cultivate a learning-first culture and support the growth of direct reports accordingly through constructive feedback and suggestions to team engineers.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Expert-level experience with C#.
  • 10+ years of experience in software development, preferably in gaming.
  • Shipped multiple titles starting from the prototype stage (on Console, PC, or Mobile).
  • Professional proficiency with either unity or unreal game engines.
  • Ability to write clean, simple, well-documented code from design requirements.
  • Proven track record of working independently and collaboratively in a dynamic team setting.
  • Strong experience in Android / iOS Mobile / Console application development.
  • Up-to-date knowledge of the latest mobile gaming trends.
  • Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical team members.
  • Experience working in Agile, Kanban, or similar project management methodologies.

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

  • Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
  • DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
  • RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
  • PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
  • Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
  • Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
  • Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
  • Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion. 
  • Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
  • Giving back: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize.
  • Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2 days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options are also available for certain positions within Kabam.

Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.


We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!


About Kabam


Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.


Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.


Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.


Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Top Skills

C#
The Company
Austin, , Texas
911 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Kabam is a world leader of developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games. We merge consumer behavior with the art of game design to create experiences that are enjoyed by millions of players across the globe. Each game has raised the benchmark in mobile gaming, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology and revolutionary gameplay to the palm of player’s hands.

We have partnered with leading entertainment brands like Disney, Hasbro, and Universal to create mobile games based on some of the world’s most iconic franchises.

Our games have generated hundreds of millions of downloads including Marvel Contest of Champions, Disney Mirrorverse, Shop Titans, Transformers: Forged to Fight, Mini Guns, Fast & Furious 6: The Game, Fast & Furious: Legacy, and Blastron. Many of these games have also received multiple awards such as Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.

Founded in 2006, we have studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal, Charlottetown, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, and Seoul. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.

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