Technical Director

Job Description

As a Technical Director (TD) for Apex Legends Mobile, you will report to the Principal Technical Director and work with internal EA teams, vendors, and our external development partner to bring Apex Legends to market on mobile devices.

Responsibilities
• Accountable technical leader that owns the technology stack across the Mobile game for development and live service.
• Be an authority on technology, and a driving presence as part of the mobile leadership team in Respawn.
• Provide technical leadership and lead a technology team that develops technologies in the game.
• Partner with external developers to set milestones, review progress, and create improvements and changes, yielding improvements to gameplay Goals.
• Oversee the core game quality attributes relating to gameplay and performance features for the product.
• You will work with external partners Product Management to gather the requirements to form the core foundation for all of the game's technologies, both developed in–house and externally.
• Guide the brainstorming process on the new features and technologies required to support the game and the live service.
• Evaluate new technologies and software products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities within the game.
• You will manage a team of engineers and technical leaders, and provide career management / growth plans.
• Occasionally hands-on in Coding and Testing and Deployment.
• You will set technical roadmap and milestone deliverables based on EA's Game Development Framework.
• Technical contact for internal (EA) and external partners / providers, representing Respawn and the APEX Mobile team. Represent Respawn's mobile portfolio to the wider EA Mobile technology groups.

Experience

Have:
• Respawn looks for candidates with experience in all aspects of game technology systems and pipelines.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• At least 12 years of software development experience, having shipped at least one mobile game with an online and live service component and high DAU.
• 7+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Experience in multiple programming languages (e.g. C++, Python, Lua, or C#).
• Demonstrate mastery of good software engineering practices
• Experience building outstanding mobile applications.
• Understanding of memory management, multiple processor use, and runtime optimization.
• Always improve product quality and group productivity.
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Experience with software development tools such as source control systems, automated build systems, compilers, software validation systems, test harnesses, automated testing, unit testing, Configuration Management, and continuous integration and deployment.

Bonus:
• Mandarin speaking
• Development experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Azure.
• Experience in all areas of game development (i.e. Gameplay, AI, Cameras, Controls, Rendering, Audio)
• Experience in product and project management.
• Experience developing software / games with external partners / studios.
• Experience working with / within a large team (>100 people.)
• Knowledge of UE4.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rv7347-3-136-154-103-42 in your application.