Respawn Entertainment · 14 hours ago
Technical Director - Tools (Apex Legends)
LA Metro Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
CA$139K/yr - CA$200K/yr
10+ years expRespawn Entertainment is the Academy Award-winning studio behind critically acclaimed multi-platform games. The Technical Director will provide leadership and technical direction for tools engineering, ensuring high standards in code quality and performance while mentoring engineers and collaborating with other disciplines.
Developer PlatformPC GamesVideo Games
Responsibilities
Distill Apex and Respawn goals into tools, pipelines, and workflows team goals and achieve them
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to tools engineers
Balance technical and project long-term goals and vision
Partner with other disciplines on requirements, priorities and planning
Guide a partner-centric engineering culture of empowering content creators
Collaborate on performance management, retention & hiring
Collaborate with other technical directors on Apex's short and long-term technical direction
Collaborate with technical art directors to partner on efforts in the tools and technical art spaces
Provide technical direction for Apex tools engineering
Promote good engineering practices and ensure compliance with standards
Ensure code quality, performance, usability, and stability of tools, workflows, and pipelines
Approve technical design documents and provide code and script review feedback
Manage technical dependencies and risks
Manage technical partnerships within Apex and across Respawn/EA
Spend roughly 80% of time on strategic and leadership work with 20% of your time devoted to hands on tool development
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software engineering experience with an emphasis on tools/pipelines
Shipped multiplayer AAA titles on multiple generations of hardware platforms
Experience working on large-scale Live Services title
5+ years of leadership experience
Experience with large code bases, legacy code bases, industry standard tool sets and workflows
Advanced C/C++ skills
C# skills
Benefits
Paid time off (3 weeks per year to start)
80 hours per year of sick time
16 paid company holidays per year
10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby
Medical/dental/vision insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
401(k) to regular full-time employees
Vacation (3 weeks per year to start)
10 days per year of sick time
Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave)
Extended health/dental/vision coverage
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Retirement plan to regular full-time employees
Company
Respawn Entertainment
Respawn Entertainment is an independent video game development studio located in the San Fernando Valley.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2017-11-09Acquired
Leadership Team
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Bruno Werneck
Principal Concept Artist
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