About the role
Location and Employment Type
- Location: UK Remote or West Midlands-based
- Employment Type: Full-Time Contractor
Role Overview
As Technical Director, you will define and lead the technical strategy, architecture, and capability of the studio’s development work. You will combine strategic leadership with hands-on technical involvement, guiding complex technical decisions, supporting high-quality delivery, and ensuring teams have the tools, systems, and technical foundations needed to build scalable, performant, and innovative games.
Responsibilities
Technical Strategy and Direction
- Define and evolve the technical vision, strategy, standards, and long-term capability required to support current and future projects.
- Translate business, stakeholder, and product needs into clear technical approaches, identifying opportunities, risks, investment needs, and delivery trade-offs.
Architecture and Technical Excellence
- Guide the design of scalable technical architecture across tools, automation, rendering, audio, integrations, telemetry, and core game systems.
- Lead critical technical reviews and problem solving, ensuring solutions are robust, maintainable, secure, and appropriate for the project’s needs.
Technology, Tools, and Innovation
- Drive the development and adoption of effective tools, technical workflows, automation, and research-and-development initiatives that improve development efficiency and product quality.
- Evaluate technology choices, technical stacks, and external integrations, ensuring they support reliable delivery across platforms and project types.
Technical Leadership and Collaboration
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams, supporting technical growth, sound decision-making, and consistent engineering practices.
- Partner with production, creative leadership, business development, and stakeholders to support technical planning, proposals, and successful project delivery.
Essential Qualifications and Experience
- Strong technical leadership experience across game development, architecture, and studio-level technical strategy.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, technical stacks, systems development, and cross-platform delivery.
- Experience with tools development, automation, research and development, profiling, optimisation, and test-driven development.
- Broad technical knowledge across rendering, audio, integrations, telemetry, porting, and core game technology.
- Experience contributing technical expertise to proposals, project planning, and stakeholder-facing discussions.
- Excellent communication, mentoring, strategic thinking, and complex problem-solving skills.
Company Culture and Benefits
- Join a friendly, nurturing work environment with the opportunity to build games as part of an extremely talented, ambitious studio.
- Work on market-leading AAA titles and IP with globally reputable studio and publisher partners.
- Be part of a sustainably growing game developer studio as we consciously expand our team and projects on a case-by-case basis.
- Learn within an independent studio across a wide range of projects and opportunities both internal and external.
Application Requirements
- Please send through your portfolio and cover letter.
- If examples are from previous works with another studio, ensure samples are cleared for release by copyright owners.
- Links to an online portfolio are preferable; otherwise, showreels are accepted via Dropbox or other secure sharing platforms.
- Please note: We cannot offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity at this time.
Company Policy and Compliance
- GDPR Compliance: Applicants authorize Flix Interactive to store application information and distribute it to senior team members for review. Data is stored on a private cloud-based system and used for recruitment purposes only. Requests to update or delete applications will be processed within 30 days.
- Equal Opportunities: Flix Interactive Ltd is an equal opportunities employer committed to inclusion and diversity. Applications are welcome regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, and marriage or civil partnership status. Applications from underrepresented groups in the gaming industry are encouraged.