Senior Director, Engineering

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Responsibilities

• ▹Ensure the best outcomes from a 20-person engineering group and 6-person QA team
• ▹Act as technical visionholder for MARVEL SNAP as it transitions to long-term solutions
• ▹Own the delivery pipeline end-to-end, removing friction and delivering quality features on time
• ▹Champion pragmatic engineering decisions, knowing when to build fast and when to build right
• ▹Ensure quality output from external development (xDev) partners in conjunction with Production
• ▹Define quality and deployment standards that scale across internal and external teams
• ▹Hold meaningful 1:1s, track growth, and build actionable career plans

Requirements

• ▹Proven experience shipping and operating a live-service game
• ▹Track record of technical management of external development partners or vendors
• ▹Ability to add value at every level: IC engineers, external partners, production, and leadership
• ▹Experience leading an engineering team through the ups and downs of long-term live-service games
• ▹Strong familiarity with Unity, AWS, Git, and .NET
• ▹Comfortable both setting strategic direction and rolling up your sleeves

Nice to have

• ▹Experience designing and scaling a hub-and-spoke or xDev-heavy engineering model
• ▹Experience operating a global backend at scale
• ▹Background in live-service game telemetry, A/B testing, or rapid iteration frameworks

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Base salary $270,000-300,000 + equity + potential performance bonuses
• ▹Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 100% employee / 75% dependent premiums covered
• ▹401(k) with no waiting period
• ▹16 weeks paid parental leave
• ▹Home office improvement bonus
• ▹Paid vacation and sick time
• ▹Up to 10 BetterHelp sessions per benefits year
• ▹Remote-first with core overlap hours 10AM-4PM PT
• ▹Company summer and winter holiday shutdowns
• ▹In-person and virtual company events

About the company

Second Dinner is an award-winning independent game development studio building MARVEL SNAP in partnership with Marvel. The company is remote-first and working on several other undisclosed projects.