Technical Director, Developer Experience & Platform

Game Companies; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Embark is seeking a Technical Director to set a 2–3 year vision and roadmap for the Developer Experience platform. You will lead the leads of Tools & CI and Backend Delivery, ensuring builds, tools and AI platform align as one system.

Initially, you’ll oversee Backend Delivery while a new lead is hired, then transition to the full role. You will shape the strategy for internal tooling, CI, source control, and AI integration, collaborating with the CTO and other tech leads to drive efficiency and

Qualifications

• Experience leading leaders, i.e. managing team leads or managers.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Leadership

Build systems

CI/CD

Source control

Backend infrastructure

Unreal Engine

AI platforms

Team leadership

Tools

Perforce

Monorepo tooling

Bazel

Job description

Embark is seeking a Technical Director to set a 2–3 year vision and roadmap for the Developer Experience platform. You will lead the leads of Tools & CI and Backend Delivery, ensuring builds, tools and AI platform align as one system.

Initially, you’ll oversee Backend Delivery while a new lead is hired, then transition to the full role. You will shape the strategy for internal tooling, CI, source control, and AI integration, collaborating with the CTO and other tech leads to drive efficiency and