Dovetail Games is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all, regardless to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion (or lack thereof) education background and game preferences as we seek to recruit the very best from a diverse talent pool. We are committed to promoting diversity, and all applicants will be considered on their merit, qualifications, competence, and talent regardless of any protected characteristics. At the individuals request all roles will be considered for part time, term time only and job shares. 

Our people can be based “where they do their best work” from either our HQ or from their home (UK based only / VISA sponsorship available on qualifying roles). This role will be required as hybrid. 

At Dovetail Games we are passionate about empowering our people to build beautiful worlds, craft breath-taking games and do the best work of their career to deliver our vision: “By Enthusiasts, For Enthusiasts”. 

Our studio is situated in a river-front building in the heart of the Historic Dockyard in Chatham, Kent, UK. We are growing fast, developing our games using cutting-edge technology and delivering these on multiple platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and 5 and Xbox One and Series S/X 

We are looking for a Technical Director to lead, support and mentor the Studio’s Lead and Senior Programmers, help overcome technical issues, drive and support best practices and efficiencies across our games, and set clear guidelines/expectations for the studio’s games and services. 

• The quality of technical deliverables for all studio UE4 titles
• Shaping and driving the future technical roadmap and requirements for the studio
• Leading, coaching and mentoring engineers throughout the studio 
• Approving technical designs for all high-risk/high-impact systems across the studio’s development teams 
• Driving the overall engineering culture at the studio, including internal and external talks and engagement 
• Setting and enforcing software development standards and best practices across all engineering teams 
• Working with the development teams to optimise, fix and establish excellent codebases throughout the studio. 
• Overseeing the technical requirements of first-party submission processes 
• Working with content and engineering teams to help optimise our titles and achieve performance  
• Working closely with project leads to define the titles’ technical requirements, constraints, risks and opportunities – including all technical architecture and production process  
• Working with Dovetail’s leadership team to define and manage change  
• Facilitating the sharing of technical knowledge and learnings across the studio’s development teams, looking for opportunities to re-use solutions and processes across  
• Identify and manage technical dependencies and risks for the studio
• Stay abreast of global technology advancements, identify opportunities to progress Dovetail Games at a technical and business level