Technical Director

ZeptoLab UK Limited; Polska; On-site; PLN 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

ZeptoLab UK Limited is seeking a Technical Director to define the technical vision for Bullet Echo and steer client, battle server, and backend architecture in a live game environment. You will own the technical roadmap, improve engineering practices, manage debt and risks, and drive AI-first development across teams while aligning with product priorities and LiveOps needs.

We expect strong leadership, a deep C++ background, and proven ability to guide a large production codebase.

Qualifications

• 1.5+ years in a leadership role with ownership in live game development
• Strong C++ background with production codebase experience in a live product
• People management experience and ability to lead a technical team
• Deep understanding of real-time multiplayer architecture, client/server interaction, synchronization, networking, and battle servers
• Strong knowledge of high-load backend architecture and distributed systems
• Experience improving engineering practices within an established team and legacy environment
• Experience with LiveOps and production engineering, including releases, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, hotfixes, and incident management
• Experience defining technical strategy and managing technical debt, architectural risks, and engineering capacity
• Experience with AI-assisted or agentic software development and integrating AI into workflows
• Strong ownership to independently define technical direction and drive change
• Experience with custom game engines a plus
• Fluency in English and Russian a potential advantage

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision for Bullet Echo across client, battle server, and backend architecture
• Evolve the architecture and engineering practices of a large live product
• Own the technical roadmap, quality, debt, and key risks
• Assess feasibility, cost, risk, and architectural impact of initiatives
• Manage technical priorities and engineering capacity across teams
• Improve engineering processes to shorten end-to-end development
• Promote AI-first engineering across development and testing
• Evaluate the technical team and help build a strong engineering organization

Skills

Technical leadership

C++ background

Real-time multiplayer

Backend architecture

LiveOps experience

AI in development

Team management

English/Russian language

Tools

Custom game engines

Job description

What you'll do

• Define the technical vision for Bullet Echo and set the direction for client, battle server, and backend architecture.
• Evolve the architecture and engineering practices of an established live product with a large and complex codebase.
• Own the technical roadmap, engineering quality, technical debt, and key technical risks.
• Evaluate product initiatives in terms of feasibility, cost, risks, time-to-market, and architectural impact.
• Manage technical priorities and engineering capacity across product development, LiveOps, and technology development.
• Improve engineering processes with a focus on reducing the end-to-end development cycle from task definition to production.
• Drive the adoption of AI-first engineering approaches across development and testing.
• Assess the technical team, identify development opportunities, and help build a strong and effective engineering organization.

What we're looking for

• 1.5+ years of experience as a Technical Director, CTO, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or in a comparable role with significant ownership in live game development.
• Strong C++ background and experience working with a large production codebase in a live product.
• People management experience, with the ability to lead, develop, and evaluate a technical team.
• Strong understanding of real-time multiplayer architecture, including client/server interaction, synchronization, networking, and battle servers.
• Strong understanding of high-load backend architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience improving engineering practices within an established team and legacy environment, with measurable results.
• Experience with LiveOps and production engineering, including releases, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, hotfixes, and incident management.
• Experience defining technical strategy and managing technical debt, architectural risks, and engineering capacity.
• Strong practical experience with AI-assisted or agentic software development and introducing AI into team-wide engineering workflows.
• Strong ownership and ability to independently define technical direction and drive change.
• Experience with custom game engines would be a strong plus.
• Fluency in both English and Russian would be considered an advantage.

Why this role is interesting

The opportunity to set the technical direction of Bullet Echo and have a real impact on how the product evolves.

A high level of autonomy and ownership - we expect you to bring your own vision, identify what needs to change, and drive it forward.

The opportunity to rebuild software development and testing around AI agents, with humans setting goals and overseeing the work at key points.

Strong support from the company to drive meaningful changes and experiment with new approaches.

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