About the role
Role Overview
Developer Experience at Embark is about how we build our games, focusing on everyone who makes our games: engineers, artists, designers, QA, and audio. This work brings together Tools & CI (Unreal builds and Perforce), Backend Delivery (backend monorepo and developer infrastructure), and an AI platform under one long-term vision. As Technical Director, you will set the 2–3 year vision and roadmap for the platform everyone at Embark builds on, leading the leads of Tools & CI and Backend Delivery, and initially leading Backend Delivery directly while hiring its new lead.
Example of Responsibilities
- Set direction and priorities for Developer Experience: CI and builds, source control, hosting and storage for internal tools, AI fundamentals, and iteration time.
- Write and own the studio-wide Developer Experience vision and roadmap, together with the CTO and the other technical directors.
- Grow strong technical leadership under you, and hire where we have gaps.
- Find out where our developers lose time, for example slow builds, long editor start-up, and long compile times, measure it, and make it better.
- Build our AI platform (model access, agent runtime, and hosting for AI tools) so that every team can use AI in their daily work.
- Work closely with game teams, Workflows, Engine, and other teams that build on top of the platform you own.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience leading leaders, i.e., managing team leads or managers.
- A solid technical background in build systems, CI, source control, backend infrastructure, or developer tooling.
- Experience setting a long-term technical vision and getting people to follow it.
- You care about artists, designers, and QA as much as about programmers.
- Experience with Unreal Engine, large Perforce depots, monorepos, or Bazel is meriting.
- Experience rolling out AI tools for developers is a plus.
Benefits and Perks
- Competitive salaries.
- Passionate colleagues to share knowledge with.
- A journey into the unknown to build creative, surprising, and beautiful experiences together.
- Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so.