About the role

  • Technical Director overseeing the project’s Lead Programmer and external technical teams at Offworld Industries. Focused on technical vision, architecture, and team guidance for multiplayer game development.

Responsibilities

  • Own and communicate the overall technical vision and strategy for OFL.
  • Define and oversee core architecture in Unreal Engine 5 (C++/Blueprint integration, networking, rendering, tools).
  • Guide integration of backend technologies (e.g., External Service Providers, Microservices, and multiplayer infrastructure).
  • Balance innovation with long-term maintainability, minimizing technical debt.
  • Maintain stability of the OFL project and development processes (builds, etc.)
  • Establish and enforce coding standards, documentation practices, and performance benchmarks across the team.
  • Conduct technical reviews of major systems and pipelines (build, CI/CD, tools, online services).
  • Ensure effective use of studio tools such as Confluence (documentation) and Jira (task/project tracking).
  • Lead, mentor, and align Lead Programmers, ensuring collaboration across the sub-team.
  • Provide guidance and coaching to senior engineers, supporting their growth into leadership or principal roles.
  • Represent technical interests in cross-disciplinary leadership discussions with design, art, and production.
  • Partner with Production to prioritize technical work and ensure realistic schedules.
  • Clearly communicate technical risks, trade-offs, and opportunities to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ensure technical milestones are delivered in line with project goals and internal or external partner/publisher requirements.

Requirements

  • 2+ years launching and/or operating Live Service games.
  • Deep expertise in C++, and Blueprint integration within large-scale production environments.
  • Experience with Unreal Engine 5 is a plus.
  • Proven experience architecting high-concurrency multiplayer systems, including networking, backend services, microservices, and F2P live-ops infrastructure.
  • Demonstrated ability to define and execute technical strategy for a large-scale multiplayer title, balancing innovation with long-term stability and maintainability.
  • Strong architectural ownership with accountability for scalability, performance, and minimizing technical debt.
  • Experience integrating external service providers and collaborating effectively with outsourcing or distributed technical partners.
  • Strategic partnership experience with Production to manage scope, prioritize work, and proactively mitigate technical risk.
  • Proven leadership mentoring senior engineers and establishing technical standards, workflows, and engineering best practices across a programming organization.

Benefits

  • Extended health and dental benefits
  • Wellness and health spending accounts
  • Retirement savings plan
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 2 weeks of paid studio shutdown over the December holiday period
  • Wonderful colleagues!

Job title

Technical Director

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$150,000 - CA$180,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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