Remote · Full-time · Cyprus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Portugal, Serbia
At ZeptoLab, we're looking for a Technical Director to own the continued technical evolution of Bullet Echo and help transform its engineering system.
This is a senior technical leadership role focused on shaping architecture, improving engineering effectiveness, and driving AI-first development across a live product.
What you'll do
- 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 and complex codebase.
- Own the technical roadmap, engineering quality, technical debt, and key technical risks.
- Evaluate product initiatives in terms of 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 with a focus on reducing 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 and effective engineering organization.
What we're looking for
- 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 working with a large production codebase in a live product.
- People management experience, with 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.
- Experience with custom game engines would be a strong plus.
- Fluency in both English and Russian would be considered an advantage.
Why this role is interesting
- The opportunity to set the technical direction of Bullet Echo and have a real impact on how the product evolves.
- A high level of autonomy and ownership — we expect you to bring your own vision, identify what needs to change, and drive it forward.
- The opportunity to rebuild software development and testing around AI agents, with humans setting goals and overseeing the work at key points.
- Strong support from the company to drive meaningful changes and experiment with new approaches.
ZeptoLab is a video game developer best known for developing the Cut the Rope series, which has been downloaded more than 2 billion times since its release.
