Technical Director

4 days ago

Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden Toca Boca Full time
  • Applications are considered on a rolling basis

  • Stockholm
  • Hybrid


Job Description

We're looking for a Technical Director, Online to take ownership of a critical subset of our game technology stack, including backend infrastructure, services, tools, and the game integration/platform layer. This role is focused on our flagship title but it has studio-wide impact, ensuring that other titles can leverage the right technology solutions as they grow.

As a hands-on, technical and strategic leader, you'll own the architectural vision for the Online domain, ensure production plans are realistic and de-risked, and directly guide multiple development teams to deliver against a clear Definition of Done. You'll also play a key role in growing future technical leaders through mentorship, coaching, and day-to-day technical leadership.

What You'll Do

  • Own the Online Technical Vision: Define and drive the domain architecture and roadmap, ensuring alignment with project goals, studio direction, and long-term business needs.
  • Lead Delivery & Stay Hands-On: Direct multiple teams and tech experts while actively contributing in code—reviewing changes, contributing PRs, and helping resolve complex challenges.
  • Drive Scalable, Secure Systems: Ensure backend, services, and platform layers are built for massive scale, performance, reliability, and security.
  • Manage Risk & Technical Health: Proactively identify architectural risks, technical debt, and performance or scalability bottlenecks, and lead or escalate mitigation strategies.
  • Grow Leaders & Engineering Excellence: Mentor tech leads, establish strong standards for quality and sustainability, and champion best practices across the domain.
  • Align & Communicate: Partner with producers, project Technical Directors, and business stakeholders to communicate trade-offs, progress, and risks with clarity.

Domain Focus: Online & Live Services

  • Backend Architecture & Scalability: Design and govern high-availability systems that support massive concurrent users, real-time data flow, and live operations.
  • Data Integrity & Security: Ensure strong persistence, transactional integrity, and protection against exploitation and data loss.
  • Live Ops Tooling & Pipelines: Own tooling, telemetry, monitoring, and deployment systems to support 24/7 operations and rapid updates.

What You Bring

  • 8+ years of progressive software development experience, including 3+ years in a senior lead, principal, or technical architecture role.
  • Proven success architecting, shipping, and maintaining large-scale mobile or console live service games.
  • Deep expertise in online/backend infrastructure and distributed systems.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical topics to non-technical and executive stakeholders.
  • A collaborative, hands-on leadership style with a passion for building scalable, sustainable systems.

If you're excited to lead the online backbone of a large-scale live game, stay close to the code, and help grow the next generation of technical leaders, we'd love to hear from you.


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