The Role
The Technical Director drives the technical vision and strategy for the game's development, overseeing architecture, team management, and aligning engineering efforts with creative objectives.
Summary Generated by Built In
Crytek have an exciting position for an experienced and ambitious Technical Director to join Hunt: showdown.
Joining the Core Leadership Team, the Technical Director collaborates closely with the Game Director, Development Director, and Product Director to collectively own and drive the project’s success. Within this team, the Technical Director is accountable for the technical domain—defining and executing the game’s technology strategy, ensuring efficient development pipelines, scalable architecture, and long-term maintainability. The Technical Director plays a critical role in aligning engineering efforts with creative and business goals, enabling high-quality production and seamless live operations.
Responsibilities
- Drive the Technical Vision and strategy and Architecture
- Ensure the technical stack is scalable, secure, maintainable, and future proof for ongoing updates.
- Own the technical vision and architecture of the project
- Represent the technical domain in the Core Leadership Team, co-owning the development and operation of the project.
- Actively contribute to cross-discipline decision-making and long-term planning.
- Collaborate closely with the Game, Development, and Product Directors to align technology with creative vision, player needs, and business goals.
- Help shape and refine production processes, milestone plans, and organizational design to support team health and delivery success.
- Foster a strong partnership across all Crytek teams ensuring technical requirements align with engine capabilities and strategic goals.
- Act as a bridge between the game service team and the engine team to identify dependencies and collaborate on shared initiatives.
- Build and lead a high-performing engineering team across disciplines (gameplay, tools, online, systems).
- Define clear technical roles, growth paths, and engineering values within the team.
- Hire, mentor, and retain top engineering talent, ensuring the team is resilient, motivated, and empowered.
- Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Ensure project needs are communicated and aligned with engine capabilities and roadmap.
- Contribute feedback to CryEngine evolution that benefits the project and the studio at large.
- Support knowledge-sharing and technical alignment across other Crytek projects.
- Build and maintain systems that support frequent live updates, hotfixes, and content delivery.
- Collaborate with operations and backend teams to ensure technical uptime, analytics integration, and support tooling.
- Drive continuous improvement of the live game’s technical health and long-term maintainability.
Requirements
- Shipped at least one AAA game in a technical leadership role, preferably from early development through live operations.
- Deep knowledge of C++, systems programming and performance tuning.
- Deep understanding of NPC AI creation.
- BSc in Engineering or similar.
- Expertise in game architecture, tools/pipeline design, cloud services, and live systems.
- Proven leadership experience managing senior engineers and building strong tech teams.
- Excellent communicator, comfortable with strategic decision-making and hands-on technical involvement.
- Passionate about building great games, enabling developers, and delivering stable, high-quality live services.
- Willingness to relocate to Frankfurt.
Pluses
- Experience with CRYENGINE
- JavaScript
What you can expect from us
Career Path
Your professional development is important to us, so we have laid out a career plan to help you progress towards your goals and objectives.
Relocation Support
We offer a relocation budget and full coverage of flights to Frankfurt for you and your family.
You can expect extensive assistance with visa, work permits, and communication with authorities during the relocation process, as well as help settling into Germany (e.g. setting up appointments with banks, government agencies, schools, landlords, finding apartments etc.).
Company Apartment
To help you get settled, we provide you with a fully furnished company apartment during your first three months in Frankfurt.
Public Transport Pass
Discover Frankfurt by bus, tram and metro – free of charge.
Gym Card
A healthy body is a healthy mind. We offer a membership at the premium gym chain Fitness First in Germany. Work out, join group fitness classes, or relax in the wellness facilities.
State-of-the-art Office
We’ve recently moved into a brand-new, modern office located in the heart of Frankfurt. Our new workspace is designed to inspire creativity and collaboration, with open areas, quiet zones, and top-tier facilities — all just steps away from public transport, restaurants, bars and cultural hotspots.
International Environment
We truly embody diversity at Crytek. With employees from over 42 different countries, we define ourselves by our cultural diversity.
German Classes
Understanding the local culture will make your stay abroad more enjoyable, and Crytek supports that by offering German language courses for you and your family.
Events
Join us on our exciting company events, including new starter breakfasts, summer and winter parties, our annual trip to Gamescom in Cologne, and many more!
Vacation Days
At our Frankfurt office you can enjoy 24 days of vacation per year, and every 2 years you get 1 more (up to a maximum of 28 days). You will also have on average 10 public holidays on top of the days you take off.
Top Skills
C++
Cryengine
JavaScript
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The Company
What We Do
Crytek is an independent videogame developer, publisher, and technology provider dedicated to pushing the boundaries of gaming with its cutting-edge 3D game development solution CRYENGINE. With headquarters in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and studios in Kiev (Ukraine), and Istanbul (Turkey), Crytek has created multiple award-winning titles, including the original Far Cry, the Crysis series, Ryse: Son of Rome, Warface, The Climb, Robinson: The Journey and Hunt: Showdown. Crytek delivers fun and innovative gaming experiences for PC, consoles, and VR and continues to grow its reach in the games-as-a-service market. Every Crytek game is created with CRYENGINE, which can be used by anyone to create games.
For more information visit www.crytek.com - www.cryengine.com and www.huntshowdown.com
