Technical Director - Toca Boca World
Toca Boca AB / Datajobb / Stockholm
2025-12-04
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hela Sverige Visa alla jobb hos Toca Boca AB i Stockholm We're looking for a Technical Director to shape the long-term technology vision and strategy of our live game service and ensure the architectural foundation that powers our app, backend systems, and production workflows. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who thrives on solving complex technical challenges, influencing across disciplines, and elevating engineering craft at scale.
As Technical Director, you'll act as the chief architect and strategic technology leader, partnering closely with Production, Product, and Creative leadership to turn big ideas into robust, scalable technical realities. You'll also work close to the code and the teams, partnering with the Director of Engineering to drive engineering excellence, optimize developer productivity, and mentor our next generation of technical leaders.
What You'll Do
- Set & Own the Technical Vision and Strategy: Define the long-term architecture, roadmap, and technology direction for the entire game service, ensuring scalability, stability, and maintainability.
- Guide High-Impact Engineering Decisions: Act as the final authority on complex technical choices, proactively identifying and mitigating risks across all systems.
- Elevate Engineering Excellence: Partner with the Director of Engineering to improve productivity, refine tooling, establish best practices, and drive continuous quality across teams.
- Develop Technical Leaders: Mentor senior engineers and tech leads to strengthen their technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership capabilities.
- Align the Studio: Collaborate closely with Production, Product, and Creative stakeholders to translate creative goals into feasible technical plans and communicate vision, progress, KPIs, and risks.
What You Bring
- 10+ years in professional game development across the tech stack, with 5+ years in senior leadership or principal engineering roles on a major mobile titles
- Deep and proven experience architecting large-scale, persistent live-service games and high-traffic backend systems.
- Strong understanding of mobile development constraints-performance, memory, and platform-specific considerations.
- Mastery of core languages such as C# or Typescript.
- Experience with Unity (our core engine) is a great bonus
- Proven success driving large, cross-team technical initiatives from concept through launch and live operations.
- Exceptional communication and influence skills, especially when aligning teams and leaders without direct authority.
If you're excited by the idea of defining the technical future of a major live game, mentoring top-tier engineers, and shaping a world-class development environment, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and help us build what's next.
This is us!
Toca Boca captures the spirit of play. We create digital toys and everyday products that are filled with fun and silliness that kids from any corner of the world can instantly relate to. Everything is designed from their perspective. We celebrate the diversity and quirkiness of their world and give them the freedom to play in ways that only they can.
Good to know!
This position is full time and based in our Stockholm office with a hybrid working model. We apply a 6 month probationary period. You'll need to be located in Sweden as we are unable to support with relocation. As we're an international company, with over 20 nationalities working here, and millions of users all over the world, you need to be fluent in English. Your application should therefore be in English.
Toca Boca develops digital games that capture the power of play and that are filled with fun and silliness that kids around the world can instantly relate to. Since our first product launch in 2011, we have released 46 apps that have been downloaded more than 444 million times the world over, making us the No. 1 mobile-first kids brand in the App Store. Our products focus on sparking kids' creativity and imagination, creating opportunities for open-ended play.
With offices in Stockholm and San Francisco, Toca Boca is owned by Spin Master Corp., a global children's entertainment company that creates, designs and manufactures a diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and entertainment properties.
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Arbetsgivare Toca Boca AB (org.nr 556870-3721),
https://tocaboca.com/ Arbetsplats Toca Boca
Jobbnummer 9628768