Technical Director Toca Boca World
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Job Summary
- Applications are considered on a rolling basis
- Stockholm
- Hybrid
Job Description
Were looking for a Technical Director to shape the long-term technology vision and strategy of our live game service and ensure the architectural foundation that powers our app backend systems and production workflows. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who thrives on solving complex technical challenges influencing across disciplines and elevating engineering craft at scale.
As Technical Director youll act as the chief architect and strategic technology leader partnering closely with Production Product and Creative leadership to turn big ideas into robust scalable technical realities. Youll also work close to the code and the teams partnering with the Director of Engineering to drive engineering excellence optimize developer productivity and mentor our next generation of technical leaders.
What Youll Do
- Set & Own the Technical Vision and Strategy: Define the long-term architecture roadmap and technology direction for the entire game service ensuring scalability stability and maintainability
- Guide High-Impact Engineering Decisions: Act as the final authority on complex technical choices proactively identifying and mitigating risks across all systems
- Elevate Engineering Excellence: Partner with the Director of Engineering to improve productivity refine tooling establish best practices and drive continuous quality across teams
- Develop Technical Leaders: Mentor senior engineers and tech leads to strengthen their technical expertise strategic thinking and leadership capabilities
- Align the Studio: Collaborate closely with Production Product and Creative stakeholders to translate creative goals into feasible technical plans and communicate vision progress KPIs and risks
What You Bring
- 10 years in professional game development across the tech stack with 5 years in senior leadership or principal engineering roles on a major mobile titles
- Deep and proven experience architecting large-scale persistent live-service games and high-traffic backend systems
- Strong understanding of mobile development constraintsperformance memory and platform-specific considerations
- Mastery of core languages such as C# or Typescript
- Experience with Unity (our core engine) is a great bonus
- Proven success driving large cross-team technical initiatives from concept through launch and live operations
- Exceptional communication and influence skills especially when aligning teams and leaders without direct authority
If youre excited by the idea of defining the technical future of a major live game mentoring top-tier engineers and shaping a world-class development environment wed love to hear from you. Apply now and help us build whats next.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Fundraising
- Management Experience
- Coaching
- Analysis Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Team Management
- Budgeting
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Public Speaking
- negotiation
- Supervising Experience
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
