Electronic Arts

The Technical Director will report to the Senior Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction and development processes for mobile game projects and services

• Manage a team of engineers, promoting continuous improvement and collaboration across disciplines and locations

• Guide teams to align and accomplish development goals

• Align with leaders and peers across locations on technical priorities

Qualifications

We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialogue to be considered.

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering

• 3+ years in a technical leadership role

• Experienced with mobile game development, web development, and performance optimization

• Programming skills and expertise in software design, algorithms, and data structures

• Experienced in Agile methodologies, continuous integration, road mapping, and prioritisation

• 10+ years of professional game development experience across game client and server backend

• 5+ years leading impactful engineering teams

• Collaborated with directors on a game to develop the vision and execute on it

• Shipped and supported a large scale mobile title played by millions

• Extensive experience with game engines (e.g. Unity, Unreal Engine) and 3D

• Extensive experience with cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)

Bonuses:

• Experience with FPS features

• Experience with Content Management Systems (CMS) to support live applications

• Built up a game engineering team