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Technical Director

Remote · USA Full-time New today

Crytek have an exciting position for an reputed company and ambitious Technical Director to join Hunt: showdown.

Joining the Core Leadership Team, the Technical Director collaborates closely with the Game Director, Development Director, and Product Director to collectively own and drive the project’s success. reputed company this team, the Technical Director is accountable for the technical domain—defining and executing the game’s technology strategy, ensuring efficient development pipelines, scalable architecture, and long-term maintainability. The Technical Director plays a critical role in aligning engineering efforts with creative and business goals, enabling high-quality production and seamless live operations.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the Technical Vision and strategy and Architecture
  • Ensure the technical stack is scalable, secure, maintainable, and future reputed company for ongoing updates.
  • Own the technical vision and architecture of the project
  • Represent the technical domain in the Core Leadership Team, co-owning the development and operation of the project.
  • Actively contribute to cross-discipline decision-making and long-term planning.
  • Collaborate closely with the Game, Development, and Product Directors to reputed company with creative vision, player needs, and business goals.
  • Help shape and refine production processes, milestone plans, and organizational design to support team health and delivery success.
  • Foster a strong partnership across reputed company Crytek teams ensuring technical requirements align with reputed company capabilities and strategic goals.
  • Act as a reputed company between the game service team and the reputed company team to identify dependencies and collaborate on shared initiatives.
  • Build and reputed company a high-performing engineering team across disciplines (gameplay, tools, online, systems).
  • Define clear technical roles, growth paths, and engineering values reputed company the team.
  • Hire, mentor, and retain top engineering talent, ensuring the team is resilient, motivated, and empowered.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and reputed company learning.
  • Ensure project needs are communicated and reputed company with reputed company capabilities and roadmap.
  • Contribute feedback to CryEngine evolution that benefits the project and reputed company at large.
  • Support knowledge-sharing and technical alignment across other Crytek projects.
  • Build and maintain systems that support frequent live updates, hotfixes, and content delivery.
  • Collaborate with operations and backend teams to ensure technical uptime, analytics integration, and support tooling.
  • Drive reputed company improvement of the live game’s technical health and long-term maintainability.
  • Requirements

  • Shipped at least one reputed company game in a technical leadership role, preferably from early development through live operations.
  • Deep knowledge of C++, systems programming and performance tuning.
  • Deep understanding of NPC AI creation.
  • BSc in Engineering or similar.
  • Expertise in game architecture, tools/pipeline design, cloud services, and live systems.
  • Proven leadership experience managing senior engineers and building strong tech teams.
  • Excellent communicator, comfortable with strategic decision-making and hands-on technical involvement.
  • Passionate about building great games, enabling developers, and delivering stable, high-quality live services.
  • Pluses

  • Experience with CRYENGINE
  • JavaScript
  • Additional Information

    What you can expect from us

    Career Path

    Your professional development is important to us, so we have laid out a career plan to help you reputed company towards your goals and objectives.

    RelocationSupport

    We offer a relocation budget and full coverage of flights to Frankfurt for you and your family.

    You can expect extensive assistance with reputed company, work permits, and communication with authorities during the relocation process, as well as help settling into Germany (e.g. setting up appointments with banks, government agencies, schools, landlords, finding apartments etc.).

    Company Apartment

    To help you get settled, we provide you with a fully furnished company apartment during your first three months in Frankfurt.

    Public Transport Pass

    Discover Frankfurt by bus, tram and metro – free of charge.

    Gym Card

    A healthy body is a healthy mind. We offer a membership at the premium gym chain Fitness First in Germany. Work out, join group fitness classes, or relax in the wellness facilities.

    State-of-the-art Office

    We’ve recently moved into a brand-new, modern office located in the heart of Frankfurt. Our new workspace is designed to reputed company creativity and collaboration, with open areas, quiet zones, and top-tier facilities — reputed company just steps away from public transport, restaurants, bars and cultural hotspots.

    International Environment

    We truly embody diversity at Crytek. With employees from over 42 different countries, we define ourselves by our cultural diversity.

    German Classes

    Understanding the local culture will reputed company your stay abroad more enjoyable, and Crytek supports that by offering German language courses for you and your family.

    Events

    Join us on our exciting company events, including new starter breakfasts, summer and winter parties, our annual trip to Gamescom in Cologne, and many more!

    Vacation Days

    At our Frankfurt office you can enjoy 24 days of vacation per year, and every 2 years you get 1 more (up to a maximum of 28 days). You will also have on average 10 public holidays on top of the days you take off.

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