Technical Director

ZeptoLab is a global mobile gaming company dedicated to the science of fun. It all began in 2010 with two people and one cheerful green monster — Om Nom, whose love for candies sparked the creation of the iconic Cut the Rope franchise. Since then, Cut the Rope games have been downloaded more than 1.2 billion times. Today, ZeptoLab focuses on its flagship live title Bullet Echo, enjoyed by millions of players worldwide. Alongside it, the company continues to develop and expand the Cut the Rope universe — one of the most recognized and beloved mobile gaming IPs in the world.

• 1.5+ years of experience as a Technical Director, CTO, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or comparable role in live game development.
• Strong C++ background with experience working on a large production codebase in a live product.
• People management experience with ability to lead, develop, and evaluate a technical team.
• Strong understanding of real-time multiplayer architecture, client/server interaction, synchronization, networking, and battle servers.
• Strong understanding of high-load backend architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience improving engineering practices within an established team and legacy environment.
• Experience with LiveOps and production engineering including releases, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, hotfixes, and incident management.
• Experience defining technical strategy and managing technical debt, architectural risks, and engineering capacity.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted or agentic software development and introducing AI into team-wide engineering workflows.
• Strong ownership and ability to independently define technical direction and drive change.
• Experience with custom game engines is a strong plus.
• Fluency in both English and Russian considered an advantage.

• Define the technical vision and set direction for client, battle server, and backend architecture of Bullet Echo.
• Evolve architecture and engineering practices of an established live product with a large and complex codebase.
• Own the technical roadmap, engineering quality, technical debt, and key technical risks.
• Evaluate product initiatives for feasibility, cost, risks, time-to-market, and architectural impact.
• Manage technical priorities and engineering capacity across product development, LiveOps, and technology development.
• Improve engineering processes focused on reducing the end-to-end development cycle.
• Drive adoption of AI-first engineering approaches across development and testing.
• Assess the technical team and help build a strong and effective engineering organization.

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