Technical Director

Seidr is a collective of Swedish gaming veterans dedicated to crafting the next generation of intense multiplayer experiences for PC and console. They are backed by Andreessen Horowitz and they are currently working on an unannounced games project that lives in the intersection between action, strategy and social.

Now they are looking for a Technical Director to join them in their journey in developing the next generation of high-octane competitive games for PC and console.

About the role

As Seidr’s Technical Director you will build their backend services from scratch, focusing on creating scalable systems that can support Seidr’s games every step of the way. You will be their go-to guru for all things backend. As such, you are probably at your best when there’s a mix between hands-on coding and technical leadership.

Oh, and you will get ownership right away. There will be no specific guidelines, but rather a team of senior developers/creatives that trust in you to do the right things.

At Seidr they work in fast iterations and test against real audiences to ensure they are always working on features and products that matter to the audience. Sharing this mentality of urgency and focus on data is key for the role to push Seidr forward.

About you

First of all, we believe that you are a technical leader with a know-how of building cloud hosted scalable backend systems for game development. As a person you thrive in small fast-moving teams with fast decision-making. You are highly structured and organized – basically you know how to get things done on time and on spec.

Additionally we believe that you have:

• Deep understanding of web service architecture and technologies.
• Experience implementing backend services on cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP and/or Azure.
• Experience building REST based web services.
• Experience building REST based micro services (on platforms such as AWS Lambda).
• Good understanding of SQL, NoSQL and Real-time databases.
• Experience working with CI/CD.
• Experience writing testable code and working with unit, integration and load tests.

Nice to have:

• Experience writing .NET Core based backend services in C# (to facilitate shared code and libraries between Unity client, backend and game servers).
• Experience in Game development