Technical Director Online
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17 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
- Applications are considered on a rolling basis
- Stockholm
- Hybrid
Job Description
Were looking for a Technical Director Online to take ownership of a critical subset of our game technology stack including backend infrastructure services tools and the game integration/platform layer. This role is focused on our flagship title but it has studio-wide impact ensuring that other titles can leverage the right technology solutions as they grow.
As a hands-on technical and strategic leader youll own the architectural vision for the Online domain ensure production plans are realistic and de-risked and directly guide multiple development teams to deliver against a clear Definition of Done. Youll also play a key role in growing future technical leaders through mentorship coaching and day-to-day technical leadership.
What Youll Do
- Own the Online Technical Vision: Define and drive the domain architecture and roadmap ensuring alignment with project goals studio direction and long-term business needs.
- Lead Delivery & Stay Hands-On: Direct multiple teams and tech experts while actively contributing in codereviewing changes contributing PRs and helping resolve complex challenges.
- Drive Scalable Secure Systems: Ensure backend services and platform layers are built for massive scale performance reliability and security.
- Manage Risk & Technical Health: Proactively identify architectural risks technical debt and performance or scalability bottlenecks and lead or escalate mitigation strategies.
- Grow Leaders & Engineering Excellence: Mentor tech leads establish strong standards for quality and sustainability and champion best practices across the domain.
- Align & Communicate: Partner with producers project Technical Directors and business stakeholders to communicate trade-offs progress and risks with clarity.
Domain Focus: Online & Live Services
- Backend Architecture & Scalability: Design and govern high-availability systems that support massive concurrent users real-time data flow and live operations.
- Data Integrity & Security: Ensure strong persistence transactional integrity and protection against exploitation and data loss.
- Live Ops Tooling & Pipelines: Own tooling telemetry monitoring and deployment systems to support 24/7 operations and rapid updates.
What You Bring
- 8 years of progressive software development experience including 3 years in a senior lead principal or technical architecture role.
- Proven success architecting shipping and maintaining large-scale mobile or console live service games.
- Deep expertise in online/backend infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills with the ability to clearly explain complex technical topics to non-technical and executive stakeholders.
- A collaborative hands-on leadership style with a passion for building scalable sustainable systems.
If youre excited to lead the online backbone of a large-scale live game stay close to the code and help grow the next generation of technical leaders wed love to hear from you.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Business
- Marketing
- User Interface
- Web Content
- A/B
- Communication
- CRM
- Paid Search
- HTML
- Project Management
- Content Marketing
- Email Campaigns
- ROI
- Digital strategy
- Analytics
About Company
About the company Toca Boca develops digital games that capture the power of play and that are filled with fun and silliness that kids around the world can instantly relate to. Since our first product launch in 2011, we have released 46 apps that have been downloaded more than 444 mil ... View more
