Technical Director in UKRAINE

Whimsy Games is looking for a Technical Director to lead and scale our engineering operations across multiple projects and platforms.

Role Summary

The Technical Director will be responsible for overseeing all technical operations across multiple projects and departments. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure technical excellence, scalable delivery processes, and healthy team growth. This is a strategic and leadership-focused role with occasional technical involvement to support architecture decisions and unblock teams.

Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Own and evolve the technical vision and execution strategy for the company across all active and upcoming projects.
• Oversee Unity, .NET, JavaScript, and infrastructure teams ensuring technical quality and consistency.
• Provide technical oversight, code reviews, and architecture consultation when necessary.
• Support adoption of new technologies (e.g., Unreal Engine) and internal R&D efforts.

Team Management

• Lead a distributed team of ~25 engineers, technical artists, QA, DevOps, and system admins.
• Promote collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement across departments.
• Mentor team members and foster a strong engineering culture.
• Participate in recruitment, onboarding, and performance evaluation processes.

Project and Process Oversight

• Work with project managers to ensure reliable delivery across all client projects.
• Establish and improve technical workflows, standards, and best practices.
• Oversee DevOps and infrastructure, primarily AWS-based.

Collaboration

• Work alongside top-management to align tech execution with business goals.
• Collaborate with the sales team on estimating, pitching, and onboarding new client projects.
• Contribute to portfolio growth and prototype strategy in alignment with company marketing.

Requirements

•  Proven experience of at least for 3 years in a Technical Lead/ Technical Director / Architect or senior engineering leadership role, ideally within a game development or outsourcing context.
• Strong understanding of Unity and .NET ecosystems; familiarity with JavaScript-based slot/igaming development.
• Experience working in fully remote and distributed teams.
• Solid grasp of AWS cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.
• Capable of conducting high-level technical reviews and guiding teams through architectural challenges.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills.

Nice to Have

•  Experience in casino or iGaming development.
• Exposure to Unreal Engine, even if not hands-on.
• Familiarity with startup environments and scaling technical organizations.

What We Offer

•  Key leadership role in a growing and ambitious company.
• Full remote flexibility with a European-centric time zone overlap.
• Autonomy to shape the technical future of the studio.
• Collaborative and respectful work culture with strong business-technical alignment.