technical director for Bullet Echo

ZeptoLab develops Bullet Echo, a live game product.

• 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, complex codebase
• Own the technical roadmap, engineering quality, technical debt, and key technical risks
• Evaluate product initiatives based on 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 to reduce 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, effective engineering organization

• At least 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 with a large production codebase in a live product
• People management experience and 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
• Будет плюсом: custom game engine experience, fluency in English and Russian

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