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. And this is where you come in…

The key function of the

Technical Director

is to lead and manage the engineering team. They direct, oversee, and communicate project engineering efforts while collaborating for feedback with game stakeholders.

This role is a full-time, on-site position based 5 days a week at our Downtown Vancouver studio.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Oversee the recruitment, onboarding, and performance management of the engineering team.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and support to engineers, ensuring their professional growth and development.
• Foster a collaborative and productive team environment.
• Regularly communicate updates regarding project engineering efforts to stakeholders, including the game client/server technology, development roadmap, and live operation of cross-platform products.
• Keep stakeholders informed about technical progress, challenges, and solutions.
• Lead and manage the technical design and development of game software, ensuring that the design and architecture are extensible across projects.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to contribute directly to the design of major game features, technology budgeting, scheduling, and whole-project dependency analysis.
• Proactively identify development bottlenecks across all areas, disciplines, and projects.
• Coordinate with teams and stakeholders to find and implement solutions to overcome these bottlenecks, ensuring smooth development processes.
• Understand and manage technical debts within the project, prioritizing and addressing them where they can increase efficiency.
• Collaborate with teams to identify and mitigate technical debt risks, ensuring a sustainable and maintainable codebase.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading technical development in the mobile/video games space and have shipped at least 2 large scale game titles.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in a similar capacity including 5+ years in a technical leadership role, preferably in the game industry.
• Experience with game engine(s): Unity3D, Unreal, Frostbite, or others.
• A people manager who has experience in developing team members’ career advancement.
• Knowledgeable and approachable with demonstrated ability to drive to clear action and ownership.
• Experience building and running highly scalable applications.
  Game development experience on any platform (Mobile, iOS, Android, PC, Consoles).
  Knowledge in how  to deal with platform/device-specific issues.
  A problem-solver who can also implement the solutions.

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:

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 in Canada, and Los Angeles & San Francisco in the United States. 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.

Compensation: CAD 185,000 – 217,000 per year salary