Technical Director
UK Remote or West Midlands-based / Full-Time Contractor
Please note: We welcome applicants who prefer to work from home; however, we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity at this time.
Role:
As Technical Director, you will define and lead the technical strategy, architecture, and capability of the studio’s development work. You will combine strategic leadership with hands-on technical involvement, guiding complex technical decisions, supporting high-quality delivery, and ensuring teams have the tools, systems, and technical foundations needed to build scalable, performant, and innovative games.
Responsibilities:
- Technical Strategy and Direction:
- Define and evolve the technical vision, strategy, standards, and long-term capability required to support current and future projects.
- Translate business, stakeholder, and product needs into clear technical approaches, identifying opportunities, risks, investment needs, and delivery trade-offs.
- Architecture and Technical Excellence:
- Guide the design of scalable technical architecture across tools, automation, rendering, audio, integrations, telemetry, and core game systems.
- Lead critical technical reviews and problem solving, ensuring solutions are robust, maintainable, secure, and appropriate for the project’s needs.
- Technology, Tools, and Innovation:
- Drive the development and adoption of effective tools, technical workflows, automation, and research-and-development initiatives that improve development efficiency and product quality.
- Evaluate technology choices, technical stacks, and external integrations, ensuring they support reliable delivery across platforms and project types.
- Technical Leadership and Collaboration:
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams, supporting technical growth, sound decision-making, and consistent engineering practices.
- Partner with production, creative leadership, business development, and stakeholders to support technical planning, proposals, and successful project delivery.
Essential:
- Strong technical leadership experience across game development, architecture, and studio-level technical strategy.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, technical stacks, systems development, and cross-platform delivery.
- Experience with tools development, automation, research and development, profiling, optimisation, and test-driven development.
- Broad technical knowledge across rendering, audio, integrations, telemetry, porting, and core game technology.
- Experience contributing technical expertise to proposals, project planning, and stakeholder-facing discussions.
- Excellent communication, mentoring, strategic thinking, and complex problem-solving skills.
What We Offer:
Based just outside Birmingham, Flix is made up of welcoming, passionate, active gamers that support one another in all aspects of development. We offer you to:
- Join a friendly, nurturing work environment with the opportunity to build games as part of an extremely talented, ambitious studio.
- Work on market-leading AAA titles and IP with globally reputable studio and publisher partners.
- Be part of a sustainably growing game developer studio as we consciously expand our team and projects on a case-by-case basis.
- Learn within an independent studio across a wide range of projects and opportunities both internal and external.
Application:
Please send through your portfolio and cover letter. If your examples are from previous works with another studio, please make sure samples are cleared for release by copyright owners. Links to an online portfolio are preferable, otherwise we accept showreels via Dropbox or other secure sharing platforms.
Send your application to – careers@flixinteractive.com
If you love making games and you would like to contribute to a team and project where your drive and skills will be welcomed and encouraged, then we would love to hear from you.
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Your application will be stored on a private cloud based online system for processing. If you would like us to update, delete or refine your application please email info@flixinteractive.com. Your request will be appended within 30 days of receiving your email.
Please note – In compliance with GDPR law your data will be used for recruitment purposes only. We are unable to accept candidates requiring visa sponsorship for this opportunity at this time.
